The comments on my psychoanalytic first draft were (once again) better than I expected!
I have already done first revisions on this paper, and to be very honest, I don’t know if the first revision is much better than the first draft, but we’ll just have to see.
Dr. Pennington said that I needed to have a more critical focus throughout my essay because there was a tendency to talk about the story rather than applying the theory. Looking back at my first draft, I totally agree. However, I did have trouble trying to be more critical while writing my first revision. If the comments are the same on this first revision, then I’ll go in and ask Dr. Pennington for more clarification, but I do think I’m on the right track.
Since we’re just about at the midway point of the semester (what?!?!), I wanted to take a second to check in with how I’m doing so far. Now, I don’t want to jinx anything, but this semester is going really well? Is anyone else shocked? Because I am.
All of the dreadful horror stories told to me by previous ENGL 305ers aren’t coming to fruition. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m loving 305, but it’s definitely not the worst class I’ve ever had. I think the material is really interesting, and I do love the freedom we have to choose our own topics for the essays. Of course, I think the hardest two papers are the upcoming ones (Feminism and New Historical), but so far so good, and I want to hold on to the hope that things aren’t going to get worse. *fingers crossed*
Everything else in my life (other classes, piano, jobs, internships, clubs, etc.) is also going really well. I’m incredibly busy but still somehow manage to binge Netflix every once in a while. I just started “Dear White People” last night, and I already know I’ll binge the whole thing over the weekend, after I do my feminism proposal, of course.
