Second Draft?!?

From my freshman year to junior year I wrote papers the night before it was due. I don’t know why I fell into the habit of doing this, maybe because it was the easy way out? But I thought I was good, cause when my teacher returned the papers back I would always get a B or higher. So life was good in the world of procrastination, until my senior year. My English teacher, Ms. Krugman, changed my life forever. I remember writing my last “night before it was due paper” and I remember getting a 67 on it. Senior year was my first year of Honors English. Prior to that, all my guidance counselors told me that I wouldn’t be able to handle honors so they put my in regular (maybe that’s why I did so well on those papers). But I guess honors English class was a whole another ballpark.

So after the first paper I wrote for Ms. Krugman was a total fail due to procrastination. My life changed, draft after draft after draft, and suddenly I don’t write any papers the night before. And I can honestly say that by drafting, writing for English was a lot easier. Each draft you write and then edit helps you build a better final paper. I just think it is so cool just to see what your first draft looks like compared to your final draft.

Peer editing is my favorite thing to do. I didn’t do too much of that in high school but coming for Summer C and taking Enc 1101, I learned that peer editing is one of the best things you can do. It allows for another set of eyes to give you ideas or tell you about those mistakes you might have skipped. So after drafting and peer editing the last year, I need to work on how to make my paper have “voice” and how to make it pop out, that’s what I am looking to the most during this semester in Enc 1102.