Exploratory Essay Reflection

                          The most helpful piece of advice I got from Megan was to ask genuine questions throughout my paper. She had a very valid point that my reader will start to distrust my writing because I was not asking a real question.  I will definitely take this into consideration and work to improve my technique of asking questions. Also, another significant thing she pointed out was that some things I talked about through my paper did not match the "thesis" at the beginning of the paper. I do not believe that anything Megan said was least helpful, but some things I will spend more time fixing than others. I think the grammatical errors are not as high on my priority list than the things I need to change about the content of my paper. I do not have any questions about Megan's comments at the time. I think she did a good job at showing clearly what needed to be fixed or why something made her confused. My plans for revision will start with taking out some of the things that confused Megan. I will work hard to incorporate genuine questions that my reader will clearly understand. Also, I will go back over the section that did not match my thesis. I will determine its importance to the paper, and make changes to my thesis according to that. I will then answer some of the questions that Megan had about my paper such has "how does the author argue this?" since I did not go into enough detail about it. After that, I will focus on the grammatical portion of my paper, fixing my citations, and using the correct gender for the authors.