Learning Outcome 1
Upon revisiting my early work in the semester when reviewing my essay I was often afraid to create large changes to my rough drafts. Although after the first paper I decided to add on more to the final draft and not worry as much about my free draft so during the second paper. This was so I was not sentimental to my free draft because I had put less work into it. In one paragraph in my significant writing project “the coexistence of art and science” I add the following underlined text ‘Science may be under attack so this is the most important time to treasure our scientific knowledge. The need for art and its inventiveness is key in organic chemistry and understanding organic compounds. Why should you care? Well, everything around us was created by the coexistence of science and art and everything that will ever be created as well. In order for humans to keep advancing technology and discoveries we need the collaboration of art and science.” in this revision, I was looking to raise the stakes and answer the reader’s questions like “why is this important”. This was a technique I learned from the little Seagal book that then incorporated into the rest of my writings. Before this class, I mostly only made local revisions like diting for word choice, sentence fluency, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Now, I often make more global revisions like diting for word choice, sentence fluency, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Revisions, in general, are more important to me now rather than just writing a good first draft.
