I think the thing that is most important at this point is shaping and fine-tuning my ideas. This definitely should be done before I switch my focus over to the style of the essay. Taking the advice from my peers and professor, I can apply that to my writing and make what I’m trying to say clearer and more understandable. This is very helpful because even though I know what I want to say and what I’m thinking in my head, no one else does. So when I write down a point that I think is going to be the home run of the game, I need to make sure that the rest of my team can see it happen.

Normally I don’t like to change what I’ve already written. It makes me more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs because I don’t want my essay to unravel. It’s okay to change what I’ve written, to tweak and shape so that it fits exactly into place with everything else.

My main goal is to focus on revising my structure both in individual sentences and in whole paragraphs. This, I think, will make my essay flow better and have it not be as rigid and abrupt with the transitions into new ideas.