Personal Narrative: My Revisions

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When it came to my Comparison Essay, I did not have a lot to revise. Most of my revisions seem very small or things I should have already known not to do. I did really well on this paper even though I had a hard time writing it. I wanted to revise this paper because I made silly mistakes that I should have known when writing this paper. One of those mistakes was not putting the last names of some authors on quotes. When writing my paper, I was not sure whether to put the first or last name on quotes. When I asked my teacher, she told me what to do, but I must have mixed it up or gotten confused somehow. I only put the first names when I should have put both the first and last name. I thought I did it right, but ended up doing it wrong. I

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