In-Class Reflection: Draft 1
Throughout reading my peer’s essays I
found some very interesting views towards Sedaris’s “Standing By”. What I found
between the two essays that I have read was that Sedaris’s purpose for writing
this essay goes beyond the airport it has to deal with the many people
different views on each other and how judgmental and aggressive they can be.
What sets me
apart from my peer’s is there experience in flying. I personally have not flown
very much in the past few years as my peers say they are frequent flyers and
can relate to Sedaris experiences in airports. I was also intrigued by how the
writers really focused in on Sedaris’s examples he gave. In the first paper she
focused on one quote per paragraph and gave support to back it up the main
purpose.
When is
created my essay I started off by making or taking the summary that I made of
Standing by. I then created a purpose statement that allowed me to map out the
rest of my paper in an organized fashion. I based my purpose statement off of what I thought
was important in his essay. For example, his purpose in writing, and why where
some of the example in the essay; how do they fit in.
It would be interesting for you to look at how their interpretation is different than yours because you haven't experienced an airport recently. Or maybe you have similar interpretations, which would make the setting of the story moot. Something to think about...
ReplyDeleteDid your peers do anything with their writing that surprised you? Did you find it effective that the one student used a quote in each paragraph? Why or why not? Do you find yourself writing in similar ways than them? Or do you think you have a different writing style?