Blog 13- Inspirational Person Reflection

             When we were assigned this task, the first thing I though of was my mother. My mom has been there for be sense day one, and will continue to support me in all of my endeavors.

            Once again, I did not originally title this paper. I could not think of a catchy relatable title to use, therefore I left it out.  When I was revising this paper, I read the paper again and thought about the theme. I though about what two colors represent my mom the best and the meanings that match. I found yellow and green to be the best representatives of her because they are surly not dull, but they are not neon colors. Green was growing and inspiration and yellow was sunshine, bright and enlightening. This title does not let the reader know what the whole essay is about, but yet relates the end of the essay where I explain the yellow and green, to the beginning part with the description of the woods.

            I found it helpful to get peer edits on this paper because I defiantly needed to hear someone else’s opinion.  When Mrs. Basko read the paper, she said to cut out the first few sentences of the first paragraph after the introduction and just start with the story. When I was reading the paper again, I realized that where she said to cut, I had a lot of unneeded words and extra writing for no reason. Getting to the point of the essay and telling the story upfront will stop any confusion.  I also added some dialogue and umph where it was needed, because voice is better than writing just to write. When I added my thoughts on paper, it was more interesting. 

           This paper was also the first time we self- edited out own work. From answering questions such as what are the strengths and weakness’s of our papers, where is the thesis, what point of view did you write from, organization, events and word choice, I was able to identify many areas that I needed to improve on. 
          In the future, I will choose similar topics such as my mom to write about if it applies to the prompt. I found that it was easy to write a paper about her because I know her first hand. Picking topics may be hard, but it I choose one that has a lot of information online or that I know about, the essay will be easier to write than one that you have to make up information and stories for.