Midterm Portfolio Revision Process

So do you like your soda cold or room temperature? Cold, right? Because I know I like it cold. But here I am...drinking a Big K Cola at room temperature. I just took it out of the box. I wish it was cold, but I was thirsty so yeah.

Midterm Portfolio...the time has come again to prepare for our English midterm. For the second revision, I am trying to connect my ideas again. It seems like that is my issue with writing. I tend to have trouble with getting my ideas together and making them flow well. So once again, I will have to really focus on the RHETORICALITY part of my essay and make sure to connect them ideas. I feel like my paper does not have enough summarizing. I am considering on putting more of the summaries into my paper. "More summary" was actually one of the comments I received from one of my peers. Apparently, I did not summarize enough of my sources into my first project. I know that summarizing is an important part of the academic writing world. But the point is not to summarize what the text says. You have to have some kind of point in what you are summarizing. For example, if you summarize the text and do not point out the significance of what you just stated, there is not much of a purpose in what you summarized. Now, I used to think that quoting from the text and analyzing it were the most important factors of writing intellectually. That is what I focused on mostly my senior year in high school, but I have learned that everything you write is almost all very important. For instance, reflection. You do not only state whether you agree or disagree, you explain your side and critique the others. Kind of like evaluating your sources. So for my second revision, I plan to critique and put more of "separate thinking/thoughts" into my paper. I believe that if I put a lot of thinking into my sources and how my ideas all connect together, my midterm portfolio will begin to look pretty awesome.

Now, let's listen to another country song. =) One day, I am going to go on a road trip with my sister. Until then, I will keep the faith up. ღ Scotty McCreery's "The Trouble With Girls".