I was reading Ben's blog and like him I have been suffering from a nasty cold. I seem to have been sick almost continuously since I came to this school - maybe its the water. Anyway, I think the cold finally took hold of me when I was writing my "shitty first draft" because it was defiantly shitty. I have decided to treat it as more of a free write than a draft. I don't want to scrap the thing entirely because the order of my ideas is somewhat logical so for organizational purposes it will be helpful. However, almost all of the sentences need to be reworked for grammatical and aesthetic purposes. Additionally, I started to repeat myself a lot in the third paragraph so I am planning to combine the few original ideas embedded in it with the second paragraph.
Essentially I am using my shitty draft as a very vague outline. I feel that because I was so sick and the idea of speeding though a draft of an essay was new to me the process was not very productive for me. I have already begun rewriting in an entirely new word document and simply using the old one to keep me on track. However, I am very happy with the thesis and conclusion that came out of my shitty first draft. Now that I have a clear starting and ending point I feel my essay will be more logical. I have also done some additional research for this essay, which has caused me to revisit my research proposal. I think the two relate to each other very well, now that I have rewritten them both. I have a lot of work to do, but I feel I have a plan to produce a good "dental" essay.
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