Final Project Introduction
Easton Wilkins
Professor Meehan
Literature and Composition
May 1, 2010
Welcome to the Machine: An Introduction
With the semester coming to its end, it is time we rotate to face our footsteps and carefully examine the shaping of the grains. Words, in this particular instance bask in their lackadaisical world and wait for the day that we mold them into an intricate puzzle for you to read and likewise, examine. The revising of the final project was a process that combined many aspects of editing that have made their way into my brain over our past few months together. Overall, my skills as a writer have progressed in ways that have helped in making my essays more concise and consistent.
The fourth writing project was one that I found most interesting amongst others; one that allowed me to utilize an electronic text and a “hard” text to effectively illustrate the goal of my essay. Unfortunately, my initial draft was more scattered than I would have hoped. So, in revising I focused heavily on connecting the points in my essay; eliminating empty spaces in order to clarify the direction of my thesis and its supporting evidence. Using more words of Birkerts also allowed me to expand on ideas that were previously not incorporated as well. These techniques stem from practice and examples that have been prevalent throughout the entire course and work miracles on papers that need just a little more “umph”.
It’s taken lots of work and lots of writing to move up this semester, and even now I still seek to improve. It will surely be quite sometime until a fine medium is reached; a place at which my brain may rest and be pleased wholly with the work it has completed. But for now, I will be satisfied with all I have created this semester and look forward to the changes that are sure to come in the approaching years.
