Reflection Entry #41 May 31 ,2009

I was finally able to complete my essay and everything worked according to plan. The plan was to complete the essay on thursday without making any changes or improvements and complete the bibliography. I wasn't able to complete the bibliography completely on thursday so i did part of it at school. This gave me enough time today to change, discard and improve the text in my essay. I was able to reduce my essay with a special technique I hought of earlier. The technique was simply to get rid off all the adjectives such as: using the adj "ancient" again and agin to describe Greece. This helped me reduce a great deal of words as well as deleting repeated sentences. I changed the structure of many senetnces to make their form similiar to the P.E.A. For the sturcture, i would tell them the point, the main info. Then i'd present some evidence which showed and proved the point and then I'd give an analysis; an explanantion of the point with the given evidence. I used this strucuture because I was giving a whole barrage of explnations which made it really complicated and it was hard to figure out wich explanation belonged to which point. That'swhy I moved the text around so my work became organised and easy to understand and most importantly it was to the point with a brief but useful analysis. The evidence would be used as proof or as an example to represent the point. I also had to organise the bibliography in alphabetical order. For each bibliography I also decided to write the time and date I used the source. Some of the sources did not present information of the author. So i decided it would be sensible to write: N/A on the bibliography. I think throughout my work time on the essay i worked productively, pre-planned my steps which helped me think a head of time and get through any twists and turns I'll face in the future which i planned for. I most of the time worked without distraction which was good. But I could've done a better job on being organised and not losing my essay three times. Most of the essay depended on the planning and whether or not I followed the steps of the plan. The plan needed to be good. It had to allow you to complete your task. Get you through any twists and turns in the way. Those are the main things a plan should have and they must be planned a head of time and every essay should have them.