Life-Choice Memoir
Here I provide an introduction to my Life-Choice Memoir assignment and links to each draft of this story.
I started this idea paper in class writing about the thoughts that were going through my head about which topic to choose for this essay. I do not consider this a shitty first draft, but thoughts that helped me make my final decisions. And hey, maybe some of you will think it's funny.
It took me a while to finally choose a topic, but once I did I wrote a lot of information. And that is how I think my first draft came out; informational. However, we talked in class a lot how we should provide more scenes and to try and NOT make our essays informational. Therefore, I decided to fix up my essay to not be as informational.
I rewrote the essay and tried including more scenes. I also tried adding more of my thoughts and feelings to share with the reader.
After creating this second draft, I met with my teacher and talked about it. My word count was a little too long, so my Professor, Sabatino Mangini, challenged me to eliminate 700 words from my second draft. I took on the challenge and removed 684 words, which came out to be my third draft.
After writing my third draft, I turned a hard copy into Sabatino and he corrected spelling and grammar mistakes and gave his thoughts about how I could further improve the essay. I completed these suggestions and created my fourth draft.
I hope you find my drafts interesting and enjoyable to read. If you want to read more about my process, you can read these blog posts: Life-Choice Memoir Reflection, Revising my Life-Choice Memoir, and Student Choice: Life-Choice Memoir Assignment.
Here are the drafts to my Life-Choice Memoir.
I started this idea paper in class writing about the thoughts that were going through my head about which topic to choose for this essay. I do not consider this a shitty first draft, but thoughts that helped me make my final decisions. And hey, maybe some of you will think it's funny.
It took me a while to finally choose a topic, but once I did I wrote a lot of information. And that is how I think my first draft came out; informational. However, we talked in class a lot how we should provide more scenes and to try and NOT make our essays informational. Therefore, I decided to fix up my essay to not be as informational.
I rewrote the essay and tried including more scenes. I also tried adding more of my thoughts and feelings to share with the reader.
After creating this second draft, I met with my teacher and talked about it. My word count was a little too long, so my Professor, Sabatino Mangini, challenged me to eliminate 700 words from my second draft. I took on the challenge and removed 684 words, which came out to be my third draft.
After writing my third draft, I turned a hard copy into Sabatino and he corrected spelling and grammar mistakes and gave his thoughts about how I could further improve the essay. I completed these suggestions and created my fourth draft.
I hope you find my drafts interesting and enjoyable to read. If you want to read more about my process, you can read these blog posts: Life-Choice Memoir Reflection, Revising my Life-Choice Memoir, and Student Choice: Life-Choice Memoir Assignment.
Here are the drafts to my Life-Choice Memoir.
- My Job at the Dry Cleaners, Draft #4
- My Job at the Dry Cleaners, Draft #3
- My Job at the Dry Cleaners, Draft #2
- My Job at the Dry Cleaners, Draft #1