Daniqua Polk
Karen Morris
English 1102- HHH
9 March 2011
Process Reflection
In writing my first draft I was confused as to what a media spin was as it applied to my essay. After my draft’s completion I felt I had made an improvement from my first essay, due to the fact the topic chosen was of more interest. After my peer review in class I felt my paper needed more help with grammatical mistakes. I felt I got back very helpful tips to make my paper more intriguing. Comparing my paper to a classmate I was able to read the essay’s title and read its content, to see if it fulfilled the title’s promise.
What influenced me the most in making my revisions had to have been an article I read that showed a prime example of a media spins. It helps me to rearrange the direction of my paper so that it correlated with the title better. It also helps me to use more descriptive and dramatic words. What really influence me in writing this essay was the intensive research of sex and human trafficking. After reading up on the statics, laws, and cases involved in trafficking I wanted to dig deeper into someone’s personal experience as a survivor.
Compared to my first essay I felt I did a better job. In sitting down and brainstorming ideas and thoughts it came a lot faster and easier than my first essay. In trying to put a twist on an already sympathetic story was the hardest part of doing this essay. I also found it hard to find a way to incorporate facts in someone’s personal story. In creating my thesis statement, I was stuck on how to write a topic sentence to address a general audience.
In exploring my topic more emotionally rather that logically was a lot easier to do. In a way I was able to look at how an individual in the sex trafficking trade could be perceive to the outside world in a different aspect.
