Op-Ed’s don’t seem like difficult essays at first but it requires so much time and patience to gather your own thoughts into 700+ words. At first, my essay was going to be about Donald Trump because he’s been a menace to society lately, and I have so many things to say about him. I wrote a draft of my ideas and thoughts… opinions and biases. I didn’t outline per say but I did know the points I wanted to hit. I decided to write my essay about how society is divided by the problems we have. This was a conversation that sparked up between my ex & me after we were yapping about our friends boyfriend, who we found out supported some of Trump policies. We spoke about how as a society, we always pick and choose what we want to support, follow trends, and don’t educate ourselves well enough before we put our efforts into one’s ideas and motives. It was a convo that lasted until 3 am and that’s when I decided that it really pissed me off when people chose to follow a social movement for views… and maybe I should get it off my chest and write about it for my humanities class! LOL.

I mainly like my message in my op-ed. It’s clear. We need to come together, f social media, and be real with each other! I do feel like I rushed this essay. Got some feedback, fixed it, didn’t really look at it again and let it sit. But, I do that with my writing. Once it’s all said and done, it should be over? At least to me. I also enjoyed our peer workshop and feedback. One of my classmates didn’t hold back and I LOVED THAT! Because I need all the critic possible to make me a better writer. She was digging deep into my points and still gave me positives. All my opportunities made me realize that I should be more organized with my writing though. A simple outline can gather all my main points. I changed my thesis after my peer reviews because I didn’t have a clear one. I had written a very vague sentence that did not show the reader what I was going to be talking about. It felt like more of a conversation, which is okay in an Op-Ed, but it’s like I was trying to tell

Moving forward, I want to really type my life away before writing a formal essay. I want to see all my thoughts clearly and every opinion written down because I can always use so much more in my writing but I limit myself. I limit what I am going to say or what evidence I should use because I doubt myself. I doubt how good of a writer I am and how much better I can be. But, that’s because academically I think I will always fail. Which is something I personal need to work on. I just know that I could have expanded some points and used more evidence in a more strategic way.

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