Blog #5

Doing the compare and contrast essay was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I thought that writing the paper was going to kill me just because it had to be 1000 words, but as I slowly started to write the 1000 words went by pretty fast with no problem. The one thing that I liked most about writing this essay assignment was that it was almost the same as the synthesis paper that we had to write. I think they were so similar because when writing the paper out they both used the same structure as far as comparing and contrasting the different articles. There was really nothing about writing the essay that I did not like.

I personally do not think that the readings for this assignment were hard, but they did require you to really focus on what was being said in order for you to be able to plan what you wanted to write from each section of the articles. For me structuring the essay was a little challenging because I was trying way to hard looking for what I thought would go good together from the two articles that I picked.

It was a little difficult to get started, because I had no idea what I really wanted to say in the essay. Usually when I write an essay I go from introduction to conclusion. Not knowing what to say I had to start with my thesis and conclusion and jump around body paragraphs until I finally knew what I wanted to write. Other than me not having a clue what I wanted to say and how I was going to put everything into paragraph format, starting was not that bad.