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WRITING SHOWCASE

This page is an analysis of my process for creating an analysis essay that answers the course question and a reflection of my progress towards course objectives.

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SECTION 1: PLANNING AND EXPLORATORY WRITING

Annotation/Source and Exploratory Writing

This is an annotation from “Ant-man and the Wasp”, a film I reference in my essay. The highlighted part shows the quote and a brief explanation of the connection to gender.

This excerpt is showing a quote I used in my essay displaying an interesting point about gender and roles in movies. This connects to the course's objective engagement because this scene demonstrates a very subtle gender norm that I felt was a crucial point for my essay which shows my engagement with the film I annotated. I learned that it’s important to be aware of everything because even the smallest things can protein to gender or come from a social construct.

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 This is surprising statistics from a source used in my essay.

This excerpt is from a source I used in the podcast and essay. I am featuring part from the beginning of the article. This connects to the course objective curiosity because I found this source by researching the topic from my podcast that I found very interesting and from because I wanted to learn more. I learned that women are very underrepresented in comics and the importance of gender in comics.

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SECTION 2: PEER REVIEW

Best Advice given and best advice received

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 This is from a review I did of a classmates introduction paragraphs describing improvements of thesis and further developments of their essay.

I feel like this excerpt from a review of a peers introduction paragraphs shows a good piece of advice I gave because I gave good examples of how to improve their writing and how to make their ideas clearer. I chose this one because I feel like this one is the most informative one I gave so which improvement in my peer review skills which is a course objective. I’ve learned a lot from peer reviewing as it gives me a good look at what others got from the same assignment which allows me to get more perspectives. I learned that the more I review others' work the more certain and confident I am in working on my own because I have a clearer picture of the objectives of the assignment.

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 This is from the exploratory writing on “Beauty and the Beast”. It reviews The paragraph I wrote about the film.

This is the best advice given to me. It is from the first film annotations and exploratory writing. I chose this as the best advice I got because it gave me a great base for the rest of the films I was going to annotate. This advice gives me a good idea of what people are understanding about my writing and how to improve my communication through written media which connects to the course objective improving written literacy and communication skills across several media, written being one of those media types. From this peer review I learned that it’s important to have multiple reviews throughout the writing process to ensure you are getting your point across and if you're not you need to stop and rethink your written communication.

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SECTION 3: SELF REVIEW

2 annotations made during the self review process

 This is a highlighted topic sentence from my essay and a response of mine about the effectiveness of the topic sentence to the paragraph.

Looking through my self-review I realize that having relevant and effective topic sentences is very important in essay flow and readers' understanding of my point. This is one of the topic sentences I feel I need to revise before submitting the final essay. In the excerpt I write about the disconnect I see between Marvel’s phases and teams in Marvel and then in the highlighted part I give a sentence to replace the current one. I need to fix the orientation of the topic sentence to more along with Marvel teams and less about their phases. This connects to the course objective understanding the importance of self review because I am looking over my own work and giving revisions to become an effective writer. I think it's important to practice this skill because you are your own worst critic, right? So taking the time to review my writing means I will be extremely picky about how effective a sentence was, if I’m truly getting the correct point across, and if everything flows nicely.

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This is an excerpt from a spot in my essay that is vague/general.

I chose this annotation because I feel like looking through my essay and fixing general sentences or points that I make is important because it’s an analytical essay. This is a general statement about a character being recognized for physical abilities but my thesis is the importance of that idea. So I need to revise this section to include at least a sentence about the significance of this, about how it is a new perspective for women characters. This connects to the self review course objective because I am reviewing my essay looking for areas to make my writing more effective and show more analysis. It’s important to practice self review and reflection because sometimes you know what you are thinking but only write part of it, you don’t fully explain your idea so it comes off as unfinished or general. So important to review your work and notice any of those areas and revise them.

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SECTION 4: REVISIONS

2 revisions made on the essay

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This point in the essay is from the topic sentence of a paragraph about Black Widow and roles of women in Marvel films. I revised this sentence to give a more accurate overview of the information presented in the paragraph. I think the revision is better because the original idea from the “before” sentence is still there but more information from the paragraph this sentence represents is there making the connection and flow of the paragraph and essay better and more effective.

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This is from the last body paragraph about the recognition of physical abilities of Captain Marvel. I revised this part of the paragraph because I thought it was too general of a statement and explaining it more would contribute more to my thesis. I think the revision makes this section better because now there is an explanation of the importance of the idea I had previously just described.

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