I went over my essay the other day with my reading in mind and I realized that my paragraphs don't follow the old-new contract. Whenever I start a new paragraph I just dive straight into the argument. I need to call attention to what I've said previously and then build on it.
Section 17.3 talks about writing chunks and scratching things out. I've done that a lot in my drafts. I actually wrote an entire chunk that I installed into my first paragraph, but I had written that chunk way after I had written the original paragraph. I've also scratched out and rewritten things as my arguements are grown and developed. I find the chunk method very useful.
Section 17.6 talked about transitions. I use those from sentence to sentence but I've noticed how I don't really use them from paragraph to paragraph. That is something I need to work on.
I have struggled in this process because when I sit down to write so many ideas with supporting arguments flood my head and I can't properly put them on paper. I can't decide what ideas I should write about and which ones aren't worth my time. I then also find that when I am writing an idea I can't recall what my arguments for it were because I still have all this information in my head. I haven't found a method yet to organize them coherently on paper even if it's just my chicken scratch to later install in my paper. That has been my biggest challenge.
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