Essay Reflection

1. How did you progress from essay 1 to essay 2?

In this essay I did much more research and organization of research material than in my first paper. I also had to spend more time and effort in seeing things from a certain point of view that I didn't necessarily agree with. Also writing in the voice of a 18th century colonial governor was a bit of a change and I don't claim to have done the best job but I did do my best. Also it helps to have studied and read the bible as much as I have because then you learn to talk in that old style voice. I also thought more about the writing of my thesis and making it concise and focused, something I had to edit in my first essay with my instructors prompting. I think I deserve at least a P because I did put a lot of time (10 hours of studying together at library, school, and Carolyn's house) and as much effort as I could to really know what we were writing about and the loyalist's as well as the patriot's views.

2. How did you process mesh with your partners?

My partner worked a little a little slower then I would have liked but she definitely made up for it in her writing of her part in the essay. She definitely deserves an extremely good grade because she really did a large part of the arranging of the 'novella' style which was her idea as well. She also helped me a lot to work out a back story for my character while I helped her to do her work and not be distracted. Her many distractions caused her to work slower but I kept reminding her of the topics we were doing which I looked up. All in all we did a fairly equal amount of work with me doing most of the research and getting the topics to right on and her organizing the whole novella style. She definitely deserves a Pass leaning strongly towards a High Pass because of the work she put into putting together the novella.

3. How did you handle creative conflict? What made your collaboration work?

All in all as partners we did a really great job, our work styles meshed nearly perfectly and in the end I think we figured out how to use each of our strengths, my drive and determination with her style and creativity, to put together a very well written paper and I enjoyed working with her. The fact that we did not let our differences separate us but instead appreciated each others differences and enjoyed what we each could bring to the project as individuals really caused us to work together as well as we did. Also we were both pretty much up for anything and there was no preconceived ideas of what we wanted to do so that helped to mold our paper, and Carolyn had a great idea in the novella concept. I think we deserve a Pass with maybe a few aspects leaning towards a HighPass.