Reflection on Portfolio 3
For this portfolio, my first draft was fairly bland and not very well structured. I focused on getting my general thoughts down on the page and did not do a good job of expressing my opinion. In my second draft I changed up my structuring and added in a very heavy handed opinion. My opinion may have been clearer, but it came across as more of a rant rather then a well-structured argument. There was some intentionality to this though; I find that it is easier to tone down my opinion as opposed to strengthening it. Once I wrote my third draft I tuned back the opinion to make the paper more engaging to a wider audience. I took the time to consider whom it was I was writing to and why they would want to read my paper. I determined that the piece was more for the general public, rather then a specific group. For the general public, anything to controversial can be off-putting, so I changing up my tone and word choice helped the paper come off as more methodical and not seem quite as close-minded. In addition to changing my tone I added several other credible sources to replace some of the more opinioned ones that I had used. If I was able to write another draft I would really focus on my sentence structure and work on my word choice, I think that there is still some work to be done there.