Reflection About Construction

My theme for this portfolio is construction and how it can be related to the writing process. At the beginning of this class I had no clue that my passion for engineering and building could be transferred into my writing, but I have learned through this class how to relate the formation of my essays to the construction of something more like a house. It starts with the foundation of the house, then each floor of the house, and finally the finishing touch, the roof. These levels of construction form direct parallels to the intro, body paragraphs, and conclusions of an essay. This idea not only has helped me create my own essays, but it also has a strong effect on how I look at others ' work. In my peer reviews, this mindset draws me to the structure of my peer 's paper and how well developed and organized each aspect of the paper is. Also, because this passion for building and how it has shaped me, I often look at how an author structures his work and what he uses to add to each of these different parts.
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Since How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is divided up into into so many different stories, it made it very easy to find the different types of allusions that he included, but very difficult to relate their purposes and create a clean well organized essay. This was extremely frustrating to me, and this essay required constant reworking and revisions. This however makes this essay an excellent one to include in my portfolio, because even when I was revising my final draft I found myself constantly reworking and reorganizing the paragraphs. Finally, through revisiting the prompt and adjusting my thesis and each paragraph, I believe that it is in a clean, polished, and logical