Writing Lab

On Monday 2/22/10 I went to the writing lab for the first time just to get some overall help with my argument and to make sure that the points I was making were also clear to my audience. I met with a student who helped me see a lot of good things about my paper, but also the things that could use a little work. She pointed out that my thesis was actually coming across as two totally seperate arguments and some of my body paragraphs didn't really fit with my arguments directly. She also helped me with addressing the author in the paper and how to properly do that. Then she helped me see that my opening paragraph didn't include all of the points I was trying to make and I had to do some revising there. So, I was able to take this constructive criticism and better my paper. I now have a much stronger thesis and more manageable paragraphs to make the paper more "reader friendly". I actually have started to enjoy writing this paper because its fun to take your origional writing and learn about the flaws and see where there's room for imporovment and I feel like with this paper I'm really given enough time to do that.
Overall I think my final draft is going to be much stronger, more thought out, and very clear in the message I"m trying to portray. I'm really glad I decided to go to the writing lab and I have already suggested it to some of my friends taking writing courses.