LA struggles

1. What was difficult about the Lit analysis paper? Why?

• Well first it's hard (for me) to complete a paper longer than a page.
• The real difficulty was not creating the thesis, but writing a whole paper around my thesis that made sense. It was obvious with my rough draft that weaving my ideas together into one cohesive paper was not happening.
• The story I chose Young Goodman Brown was not the easiest. I really had to sit down and read every sentence in that story as if I was writing a paper about each sentence. Reading it over and over again helped me pull quotes and find meaning in those quotes that supported what I wanted to write about.

2. Do you expect to have this difficulty with the CA paper?

• Thanks for asking! Yes i do expect to have the same difficulties. Mainly because like i said before, this has to be longer than 1 page and this paper involves analyzing 2 or more stories or poems.
• Creating cohesive ideas and focusing on one point rather than jumping from idea to idea will still be a challenge, but that is what rough drafts are for!
• However, because of what i now know from struggling with the LA, i think i will start to prepare much earlier for the CA. i.e. not was until a week before to figure out what i want to analyze.

3. How will you negotiate this difficulty?

• Read the stories over and over and over and over....and over until i know pinpoint exactly what i want to compare between the two.
• Test out several different thesis sentences. I found myself creating 1 strong thesis in the LA then thinking i had to stick to it, so it made writing the paper more difficult.
• Read MLM for some ideas on what to do and not to do in CA papers.