It took me a while to decide on the specific topic that I ended up talking about for this unessay. At first I had considered discussing a topic more in tune with the issues of standardized testing as a whole but as I had continued researching into the topic, I developed an interest in the SAT and the admissions processes of schools. I had always been interested in understanding why some schools are able to choose students with such high SAT scores and these are always the most prestigious schools. I continued to research this topic and find evidence which I developed and shaped into my final paper. I think that this paper is meeting my expectations for what I hoped to develop as a well written and supported paper but I think that the flow of the paper may not be what I had hoped to have achieved.
For the unessay I made only a few revisions from my original draft. The first revision that was suggested to me was by Emily during class. She suggested that I change the format of my paper from a persuasive essay to a letter format. Along with this she suggested that I had in a section with an emotional appeal of my own personal experience while taking the SAT. I added these revisions to my paper and I felt that they really helped to further develop and support my argument towards the audience that I was writing to. Along with this revision I also had one of the people in more dorm read my paper and they gave me some simple suggestions on sentence structure and grammatical errors. Together I think that both of these helped to increase the pathos argument of my paper in connection with the intended audience.
Does my argument have a clear statement of what is being asked of the intended audience?
Does my paper have a logical paragraph structure and does it flow well?
Is there anything that is not clearly address or supported well enough?
For this paper I am most proud of the research that I had done to achieve the topic that I chose to write about. I spent several hours just researching what to write about and having looked at multiple sources I was able to develop a paper that I think contains a balance of both statistical figures and emotional arguments for why there should be a change in the SAT use. I am proud of this paper that I have written because each of my arguments was developed and supported using information that I found on my own and that I was able to write a logical and coherent paper which is something that I normally struggle with.
-Jake Leinas