I have not gotten my feedback yet, but from reading the comments then I do not feel it went very well.. I am unsure if I am doing it very wrong or how significant these mistakes are.. Despite my insecurities, I felt rather proud of my first essay whilst writing it because I felt I understood the text and had a good approach to it:)
For future essays, my main targets will be:
- Going into the secondary/deeper meaning
- Working on conciseness and preciseness (shorter sentences and less “this”/”it”/”that”
- Continuously linking back to an overall argument/thesis for more structure and stronger overall response.
Based on the discussion with my feedback today, I still find that the targets mentioned above are relevant, but I also see that I should focus on how and why the author has chosen to do certain things – the response will be more effective if I explore an idea through a technique and link that to either how it helps achieve the purpose (or how it does not) or to how the technique influences the audience. Being more precise should help this too, but I think practising wording my ideas will help too – I struggle to explain why I interpret the texts the way I do.
