Riki Thinks: 10 min free write!

Well. What can you really say about a paper you had to write... It was fun I guess, learned a lot and am glad I had the opportunity.  Then again, writing was always one of those chores that was just that... A chore.  But overall I think this one went pretty smoothly as far as some of my papers go.  Research was pretty straight forward and did not require to much sifting.  It was also nice not having to go confirm facts because they are primary source.  I think I learned a lot from the reading we did, especially in the They say, I say book.  Then the idea that if you include a concept in your paper, it not only makes your paper more coherent and intersting to read but... Things just make more sense. What a novel concept. Heh, novel. Literature humor. But then I also had a lot of problems with this paper. I still found myself rambling a lot and had to really work to narrow my focus to actually get it to my topic.  That in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, because school is all about learning what and what not to do.  Overall I feel that while it could have been better (then again I think we all say that about anything we do right? No? Just me?) but for my first college paper I think it was a good indication of where I am. Lucky for me this is not for a grade, and really is just that, and indication of where I stand as a writer, and thats what counts in the end.