Radha Patel

Professor Ashlyn Walden

UWRT 1104-009 Fall 2015
November 14th, 2015
Assignment 2 Reflection:
After hours and hours of, on my part, lethargy and procrastination, I finally got this paper done.
Though I did take a long time to finish this paper, and most of it may not make sense, I am
particularly proud of some of the things that I accomplished in this paper. What I know for a fact
is that I have never done a paper like this, with the content an all, ever in my life. I am not implying
that I have never done research papers, because god knows Ive done them, but I just mean that I
have never done a research paper on a topic that is not controversial or factually sane. I have always
done papers on things like solar energy, southern literature as described by William Faulkner, and
even the power of oppression; but I have never researched a topic like a movie. It was hard Im
not going to lie; trying to find feasible and credible sources on a specific topic about Harry Potter
was, but I got through it. I am proud of the fact that I was able to submit a fully fleshed-out copy
of my paper. I am proud of all of the effort that I put into this assignment as well. However, I am
not proud of the fact that my paper needed one too many improvements. I would be fine with fixing
a few problems, grammatical or contextual, but the problems that I encountered in my peer
commentary was not being specific enough in certain matters. I am not a perfectionist, though Id
like to be, but I am glad that I got the comments that I did so I was able to make any improvements.
Although some comments were helpful, others were not. One comment that I found helpful was
by Amalia Striker when she told me The interjections "(Like me!)" "LOVE (Yes, Love)" are
interesting and potentially attention grabbing ways of writing. They could be adding a lot to your
paper. They could also be affecting your "Professional writing voice/tone" and taking away from
it. A suggestion for fixing this to help would be to maybe move these to an earlier place in your
introduction, to create more of an attention grab, or to adjust them slightly to keep a professional
voice/ tone. After seeing this comment, I think that I finally got the fact that I tend to get carried
away sometimes and use comedy, or jut catchy phrases or sarcasm, to grab some attention, and
that I need to watch that because it, indeed, does remove a bit of professional-ness, if you will,
from my writing. There were any comments that I got that were not helpful this time.
I noticed that my paper consisted, in many parts, of the skill of critical reading. One of the things
that I wrote, that I thought reflected critical reading, was from Nikolaus Windingers Sacrifice
in the Harry Potter Series from a Girardian Perspective where I described Windingers
perspective on prophecies by describing thetwo ways to sacrifice: scapegoating and selfoffering. We can see both of these forms of sacrifices throughout the Harry Potter series, from the
moment that Lily gave her life to save Harry. I think that I also used critical reflection in my
writing when making revisions to my paper from the feedback that I was given. I was given a
comment to specify a bit more on the main idea or ideas that you are trying to bring out and
that is exactly what I took into account when revising my paper so that I make significant
adjustments.