Portfolio Reflective Letter

-----Writing 101 was a great experience for me this quarter. When I was in high school, I was a pretty good writer and generally did well in my English classes, so when I came into this class, I thought it would be easy. I learned more about writing in this class then all my high school English classes combined. Despite how much I have learned this quarter; there is still room for improvement in my writing. I believe that writing every day helped me develop skills to write my loyalists’ essay and my Bacon’s Rebellion essay.

-----This quarter we wrote an essay where we had states selected for us and a side, either loyalist or patriot also picked for us. Despite the fact that many people thought essay 2 was easier, I thought it was a bit more difficult, just because of the fact that most of our research work was given to us in documents and other sources for essay 1. I believe I had an excellent starting point for the essay, but I needed to work on reading over my essay and making sure it makes sense in the order that I put it in. After I got my essay back I read over it and realized that I didn’t make clarifying points in my paper to refer back to my thesis. For an example, my thesis was In South Carolina, socialism and economy were the two factors that would cause backcountry farmers like myself to side with Britain and become loyalists.” In my paper I didn’t one paragraph that was describing just economy and just social views. If was very unorganized and I saw how it could be confusing to my teachers. As a result, I changed my thesis around to, “In South Carolina, economy, political and social views of the people are the three factors that cause backcountry farmers like myself to side with Britain and become loyalists.” I then revised my paper and made sure that every paragraph was clear to each of my points in my thesis.This is one thing that Craig really stressed and I learned a lot from this essay and I will change this in the future.

-----One essay that I wrote that I felt I did a pretty good job on was my Bacon’s Rebellion essay When the assignment was first given to us, it was a little overwhelming because I knew we were writing on the event, but I thought it was more retelling the story type thing where we were supposed to be detailed dates and a deep discussion on the story. This way everyone's essay would be very similar. When Craig presented how the thesis would be set up, I began to understand more of how we were picking an aspect of the Rebellion and making up our own thesis that we would answer in our essay. I liked this essay because of all the resources we had prior to writing the essay. I would definitely say that one of my strengths is being able to analyze quotes, and the sources that we had for this essay were a great contribution. For an example, I used a packet of primary sources from Bacon’s Rebellion and I was able to use a source from the governor Berkeley at the time that said, “[T]hen in the consideration of service I had done the country, in defending them from, and destroying great numbers of Indians, with out the loss of three men in all the time that war lasted, and in [consideration] of the equal and uncorrupt Justice I had distributed to all men”. I was able to use this quote in a sufficient way because it was primary source from Governor Berkeley that helped me get a better understanding of what he thought was good for the people he governed over. I really liked the templates from the They Say, I Say book. The templates really helped me to develop my paper, and keep it organized. An example of a template in my essay from the book was when I wrote, “Although I agree that trading with Indians in some cases has proven fatal, but I cannot accept his overall conclusion that all Indians are bad”. I used this template from chapter four of the They Say, I Say book. This template shows how to agree with an argument and then at the same time disagree with a different aspect of the argument. This helps add complexity to an argument instead of just simply agreeing or disagreeing. This template helped me analyze my quote in a deeper because I was explaining both parts of my subject.

-----When the quarter began we did a lot of writing. At first the writing was not necessarily supposed to be structured. We did a lot of free writing in the beginning just to get in the habit of it everyday. This really helped because I didn’t feel any pressure at first to right a certain way, because everyone has there own style of writing. After we got used to writing everyday, we put structure on our writing by looking at worksheets how to put together a paragraph and we read templates from our They Say, I Say book which I was surprised how much it benefited and helped develop my writing. The templates were there to help build up my writing and get it out of the same old style of having the same word phrases or same transition words. It helped my writing in the way so my reader wouldn’t become easily bored. Writing 101 benefited me greatly during this quarter and I would definitely recommend this class to anyone as an excellent source in improving writing skills.

Essay 2 (revised)

Loyalist in South Carolina

-----It is 1775, and the peak of the American Revolution. I am a small farmer living in the backcountry of South Carolina and I am attending a rally with other fellow loyalists speak out about the revolution, and why they choose to be loyalists. The backcountry of South Carolina is the western half of South Carolina, but I will refer to it as the backcountry. The backcountry is made up of mostly loyalists, and the rest of South Carolina, which is the eastern side, is made up of majority patriots. Sometimes, the factor of where a certain individual lives will play crucial role in whether they would want to take the loyalist side or the patriots’ side. In South Carolina, economy, political and social views of the people are the three factors that cause backcountry farmers like myself to side with Britain and become loyalists.

-----I was walking back to my house the other day after a long day of work tending to my farm, when I came across my neighbor, John Williams heading back from town. Although he is a small farmer like myself, he is still very interested in politics and the war going on. He began to talk about the east side of South Carolina and places such as the “coastal region north of Santee River [and how it has been] increase[ing] in population and prosperity”( Bull 572).Economy is one of the factors that has caused loyalists to side with the British. The eastern half of South Carolina is more economically developed then the back country of South Carolina. He described how most of the eastern side of South Carolina’s economy was thriving because of the wealthy patriots and their big plantations they owned with many slaves to do their work to help them prosper. “[I]n the backcountry of the southern colonies, and beyond the Appalachian Mountains in Indian Country” (Roark 232), it was a little different because people didn’t have the big plantations. In our South Carolina, the wealthier a person becomes, the more involved they become in politics, because they have money and social status, so people respect them right off the bat.

-----This is how economy ties into the social views of the people. Because the patriots had money and social status, “back country farmers in the Carolina’s tended to be loyalists out of resentment over the political and economic power of the lowland gentry, generally patriot persuasion” (Roark 232). A lot of my fellow loyalists such as my friend, John Williams, were jealous of the political and economic power the patriots had. I think that we are jealous because we want a say in government but were not sure how we would be represented if the only way to be represented would to become rich. “It’s not fair!” he protested, as he slammed his fist against the fence almost knocking me off balance. “The wealthy plantation owners don’t do any work while we are over here working as hard as we can just to get food on the table.”

-----Social class ties into political views because since a lot of patriots had a say in the government, if the British were to lose, then the small farmers wouldn’t be as represented in government as the patriots. The problem we both agreed on was the fact that patriots wanted independence. Having two different opposing political views in the state of South Carolina and having only one of them represented is not what us as loyalists want in America.

-----As a result, the British winning is what the American colonists need right now for guidance and support, because the British way of government has worked for hundreds of years and there is no reason why we need to change now. All my family and I wish is that “our Majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign, and that [his] descendants may govern [his] dominions with honor to themselves and happiness to their subjects, is our sincere and fervent prayer” (The Avalon Project, The Olive Petition). Our country was founded on the British and their principles and we should not abandon them now just because the patriots want to be selfish.

-----In final analysis, the problems in socialism were overall created by the prospering economy of South Carolina at the time. If the backcountry of South Carolina were to have a larger source of economy then there wouldn’t be the existing problem of the loyalists resenting the patriots. There wouldn’t be that big distinction between loyalists and patriots in the state of South Carolina. It would probably be either loyalists as the majority or patriots as the majority in the state, instead of the state being split in half between the two groups of people.


Citations
Bull, Henry D.. "A Note on James Stuart, Loyalist Clergyman in South Carolina." The
Journal of Southern History 12(1973): 402-426.

Roark, James L.. The American Promise. 4. Boston NY: Bedford/ St Martin's, 2009.

Continental Congress, "The Olive Petition." Avalon Project 2(1905): 158-172.

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Bacon's Rebellion Essay 1

-----As the November election is approaching, more and more people have been looking at qualities they want in a leader. When I define a leader, I see someone who is confident, and is always interested the good the people. In 1676, Bacon’s Rebellion took place in Virginia. One of the main causes for the uprising was Indians raiding and stealing from frontier farmers. A man named Nathaniel Bacon,” a member of the Virginia Governor’s Council, out of sympathy with policies of Governor William Berkeley,”1 thought the government wasn’t doing enough to protect the colonists against the Indians. When it came to leading a group of people, William Berkeley was more politically just than Nathaniel Bacon.

-----When Nathaniel Bacon began the rebellion he was willing put getting revenge against the Indians before the safety of the other colonists and other innocent people. He thought all Indians were enemies and that they did not deserve to coexist with the other colonist. He felt the government wasn't doing enough to protect the frontier farmers against the Indians and "went often times to the Governor, humbly beseeching a commission to go against those Indians at their own [expense]"(15). Despite the fact Governor Berkeley denied Bacon every time, Bacon still found a way around this set back by threatening the life's of other burgesses, putting Berkeley under pressure, and granting Bacon's commission to go against the Indians.

-----Nevertheless, Bacon does later get in trouble for his actions. Soon after he manipulated Berkeley and got out of his punishment. Bacon’s plan was to "march out upon the Enemy with which volunteers [he] could then get, but by so doing found that [he] not only lost the Governor's favor, but exposed [his] very life and fortune at home as well as abroad...but considering the necessity, [he] still proceeded, and returned with a greater victory from sharper conflict then ever yet has been known these parts of the world"(11). In this quote, connotative words such as enemy, exposed, sharper, and conflict give this section of writing a serious tone, which helps display Bacon’s mood and shows he was serious about going against the Indians. In the document Bacon demonstrates his hatred toward the Indians and why he doesn't want to trade with them. In the quote he states "trading with the Indians has proven fatal to these parts of the world, yet I fear we shall be all lost for this commerce having acquainted the Indians...with our manner of living and discipline of war, has also brought with such dexterity, that ourselves often hire them to kill Deer..."(11). Basically Bacons is saying that trading with the Indians hasn't been working and he doesn't want the colonists to rely on Indians for trade. Although I agree that trading with Indians in some cases has proven fatal, but I cannot accept his overall conclusion that all Indians are bad. This is comparable to taking a few criminals from the English society and then making the overall conclusion that their whole race bad and corrupt. I believe Bacon used bad judgment with the Indian race. I believe he should have taken a step back to assess both sides of the conflict, instead of just deeming all of the Indians bad and not caring whether he starts a civil war and killing innocent people in the process; just to get a point across.

-----As a result of start of his rebellion, Bacon had supporters of his viewpoint and the rebellion that came of it. Robert Beverly, a historian writes how he thought Bacon was “qualified” in a sense to lead the rebellion when he wrote, “[Nathaniel Bacon had received a good education in England] and had a moderate Fortune,. He as young, bold, active, of inviting Aspect, and powerful Elocution”(11). Beverly uses connotative words such as young, bold and active to reflect Bacon’s positive character. These words help bring across a happy tone which would give the reader a better understanding of Berkeley’s view that Bacon is ligament to take upon a position to lead a group of people into a rebellion.

-----On the contrary, Governor William Berkley had a different perspective on what he thought was the right thing to do when leading his group of people. Unlike Bacon, he always had the peoples’ best interest at heart and what he thought would be best for the colonist safety. A document written buy Berkeley himself called “Declaration and Remonstrance”, he demonstrates what he has done for the country when he says, “[T]hen in the consideration of service I had done the country, in defending them from, and destroying great numbers of Indians, with out the loss of three men in all the time that war lasted, and in [consideration] of the equal and uncorrupt Justice I had distributed to all men” (16) [.] In this quote, Although Berkeley does not directly say it, but it is implied that his point is that he does care about the safety of the colony. When I first thought of this quote, I automatically agreed with him, especially when he was talking about wanting “uncorrupt justice”. I believe he was referring to Bacon, because Bacon wanted justice for what some of the Indians did to the frontier farmers.[I believe] he went about the situation the wrong way because he didn’t really care who may have gotten hurt in the process, which makes his system corrupt. Berkeley’s plan to deal with the Indians in my opinion was more thought out and processed than Bacon’s plan. In his document, Berkeley says, “Lastly...I would have preserved those Indians that I knew were hourly at our mercy, to have our spies and intelligence to find out our bloody enemies, but as soon as I had the least [bit of information] that they were also treacherous enemies, I gave out commissions to destroy them all…”(17). In this quote, I agree with Berkeley’s logic to go out and get rid of the Indians who may be a threat to the other colonists. Bacon’s plan was to just go and kill all the Indians, because he saw them all as enemies. I think Berkeley is being smart by wanting to keep somewhat of a relationship with the Indians, because both sides benefit from trade.

-----In addition, Berkeley also had supporters against Bacon; despite of the people that turned against him during the rebellion, he still had some loyalists. One of his loyalists was William Sherwood, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Sherwood was describing an event with the Indians and also giving Berkeley credit for the way he reacted toward the situation, when he says, “…a nation of Indians called [Susquehanna’s] having killed some of the inhabitants of this Country [in the fall of 1675] were pursued and several destroyed by the English and Sir Wm. Berkeley our honorable Governor (who hath had long experience of war with the Indians) that he might provide for the safety of this country caused our assembly..”(12). In this quote, Sherwood is giving Berkeley credit for being a good Governor by giving an example of how he dealt with the Indians who threatened the safety of his people. He also mentioned his years of experience; somewhat implying that Bacon didn’t have enough. I agree with this quote that supports Berkeley because it is another example of how he always had the peoples’ best interest at heart. Although he wanted to keep peace and trade with the Indians, he still knew how to protect his people.
In the final analysis, Bacon and Berkeley were had their own perspective on how they thought was the just way to lead a group of people. Overall Berkeley’s leading skills were more legitimate and affective. When all aspects of the event were looked at carefully, some may make the assumption that Bacon did the right thing for stepping out against the government for not meeting the needs of the people, while others may say that his actions didn’t justify his cause. When I judge a leader, I don’t look at what may seem like the right thing to do at that moment, but I look at how they look at the overall picture and what will most benefit the greater good of the people, and that is why Berkeley earned that title.


1. • Dwight L. Smith
• Reviewed work(s): The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia by Wilcomb E. Washburn
• Ethnohistory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1958), pp. 176-180 (review consists of 5 pages)
• Published by: Duke University Press

Portfolio : Final Exam [Frame 2]

Frame two

----Writing is a skill that can come easy to some people or it may be something that other people need to work at to get better.In the short passage written by an author, it describes the writing experience in a classroom with peers around to influence you verses just writing by yourself and how writing by yourself can be much more difficult. From my personal experience, I would have to agree with the author because getting feed back from people of all different backgrounds of writing would help me improve more as a writer then just sitting home doing it by myself. When writing, being involved with a group peers and how the writing is being taught greatly effects how well of a writer a person becomes.

----In the past, I've had many different writing environments to work in. Some were more beneficial then others but from all my experiences I have gathered that receiving more feedback from my teacher or peers helped me more then just writing an essay at home and then turning it in without anyone else looking at it first. In the passage, it starts off by saying, "[T]he writing process can be greatly improved if students have a group of peers with whom they can share their writing." I agree with the author because in writing 101, we post all of our writing on a blog for anyone to look at and give feedback on. For an example, I posted a draft of Essay 2 and one of my classmates wrote a comment of positive criticism. Positive criticism is good because the person isn't saying your paper is bad, they are picking out the things I need to improve on and what it good in the paper so I can keep it. Having peers in my environment is so much more helpful because sometimes I can't catch the mistakes that I make right away when writing a paper but other people can right away.

-----Another factor that affects my way of writing is how the writing is being taught. In all my years of high school, the way this writing class has been taught has been the most beneficial. In the passage, the author demonstrates that finding someone to talk to about your writing is an excellent way to improve your writing, when they use a quote from Elbow that says, "If you are stuck writing or tying to figure something out, there is nothing better than finding one person, or more, to talk to"(49). I completely agree with this quote because I look to Craig as someone who is more then qualified to help me with my writing. When the quarter first began, we were writing the first day and the next day and the day after that. He got us into the habit of always writing. It applies to the concept of practice makes perfect. The more you practice at something, the better you get at it. So when we wrote everyday, my writing improved everyday.

----In the end, "Group work not only privileges student-centered, democratic practices, but it highlights the interactive nature of creativity. Which means working together in groups for writing is just the beginning of democratic practices. Having supportive peers and being taught the right skills are just building blocks to succeed in greater things in the future that can benefit everyone.

Essay 2 revised

Araina Rowe
11/21/08
Essay 2
-----It is 1775, and the peak of the American Revolution. I am a small farmer living in the backcountry of South Carolina and I am attending a rally with other fellow loyalists speak out about the revolution, and why they choose to be loyalists. The backcountry of South Carolina is the western half of South Carolina, but I will refer to it as the backcountry. The backcountry is made up of mostly loyalists, and the rest of South Carolina, which is the eastern side, is made up of majority patriots. Sometimes, the factor of where a certain individual lives will play crucial role in whether they would want to take the loyalist side or the patriots’ side. In South Carolina, economy, political and social views of the people are the three factors that cause backcountry farmers like myself to side with Britain and become loyalists.

-----I was walking back to my house the other day after a long day of work tending to my farm, when I came across my neighbor, John Williams heading back from town. Although he is a small farmer like myself, he is still very interested in politics and the war going on. He began to talk about the east side of South Carolina and places such as the “coastal region north of Santee River [and how it has been] increase[ing] in population and prosperity”( Bull 572).Economy is one of the factors that has caused loyalists to side with the British. The eastern half of South Carolina is more economically developed then the back country of South Carolina. He described how most of the eastern side of South Carolina’s economy was thriving because of the wealthy patriots and their big plantations they owned with many slaves to do their work to help them prosper. “[I]n the backcountry of the southern colonies, and beyond the Appalachian Mountains in Indian Country” (Roark 232), it was a little different because people didn’t have the big plantations. In our South Carolina, the wealthier a person becomes, the more involved they become in politics, because they have money and social status, so people respect them right off the bat.

-----This is how economy ties into the social views of the people. Because the patriots had money and social status, “back country farmers in the Carolina’s tended to be loyalists out of resentment over the political and economic power of the lowland gentry, generally patriot persuasion” (Roark 232). A lot of my fellow loyalists such as my friend, John Williams, were jealous of the political and economic power the patriots had. I think that we are jealous because we want a say in government but were not sure how we would be represented if the only way to be represented would to become rich. “It’s not fair!” he protested, as he slammed his fist against the fence almost knocking me off balance. “The wealthy plantation owners don’t do any work while we are over here working as hard as we can just to get food on the table.”

-----Social class ties into political views because since a lot of patriots had a say in the government, if the British were to lose, then the small farmers wouldn’t be as represented in government as the patriots. The problem we both agreed on was the fact that patriots wanted independence. Having two different opposing political views in the state of South Carolina and having only one of them represented is not what us as loyalists want in America.

-----As a result, the British winning is what the American colonists need right now for guidance and support, because the British way of government has worked for hundreds of years and there is no reason why we need to change now. All my family and I wish is that “our Majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign, and that [his] descendants may govern [his] dominions with honor to themselves and happiness to their subjects, is our sincere and fervent prayer” (The Avalon Project, The Olive Petition). Our country was founded on the British and their principles and we should not abandon them now just because the patriots want to be selfish.

-----In final analysis, the problems in socialism were overall created by the prospering economy of South Carolina at the time. If the backcountry of South Carolina were to have a larger source of economy then there wouldn’t be the existing problem of the loyalists resenting the patriots. There wouldn’t be that big distinction between loyalists and patriots in the state of South Carolina. It would probably be either loyalists as the majority or patriots as the majority in the state, instead of the state being split in half between the two groups of people.


Citations
Bull, Henry D.. "A Note on James Stuart, Loyalist Clergyman in South Carolina." The
Journal of Southern History 12(1973): 402-426.

Roark, James L.. The American Promise. 4. Boston NY: Bedford/ St Martin's, 2009.

Continental Congress, "The Olive Petition." Avalon Project 2(1905): 158-172.

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Reflective Letter Draft 2

-----Writing 101 was a great experience for me this quarter. When I was in high school, I was a pretty good writer and generally did well in my English classes, so when I came into this class, I thought it would be easy. I learned more about writing in this class then all my high school English classes combined. Despite how much I have learned this quarter; there is still room for improvement in my writing. I believe that writing every day helped me develop skills to write my loyalists’ essay and my Bacon’s Rebellion essay.

-----This quarter we wrote an essay where we had states selected for us and a side, either loyalist or patriot also picked for us. Despite the fact that many people thought essay 2 was easier, I thought it was a bit more difficult, just because of the fact that most of our research work was given to us in documents and other sources for essay 1. I believe I had an excellent starting point for the essay, but I needed to work on reading over my essay and making sure it makes sense in the order that I put it in. After I got my essay back I read over it and realized that I didn’t make clarifying points in my paper to refer back to my thesis. For an example, my thesis was In South Carolina, socialism and economy were the two factors that would cause backcountry farmers like myself to side with Britain and become loyalists.” In my paper I didn’t one paragraph that was describing just economy and just social views. If was very unorganized and I saw how it could be confusing to my teachers. As a result, I changed my thesis around to, “In South Carolina, economy, political and social views of the people are the three factors that cause backcountry farmers like myself to side with Britain and become loyalists.” I then revised my paper and made sure that every paragraph was clear to each of my points in my thesis.This is one thing that Craig really stressed and I learned a lot from this essay and I will change this in the future.

-----One essay that I wrote that I felt I did a pretty good job on was my Bacon’s Rebellion essay When the assignment was first given to us, it was a little overwhelming because I knew we were writing on the event, but I thought it was more retelling the story type thing where we were supposed to be detailed dates and a deep discussion on the story. This way everyone's essay would be very similar. When Craig presented how the thesis would be set up, I began to understand more of how we were picking an aspect of the Rebellion and making up our own thesis that we would answer in our essay. I liked this essay because of all the resources we had prior to writing the essay. I would definitely say that one of my strengths is being able to analyze quotes, and the sources that we had for this essay were a great contribution. For an example, I used a packet of primary sources from Bacon’s Rebellion and I was able to use a source from the governor Berkeley at the time that said, “[T]hen in the consideration of service I had done the country, in defending them from, and destroying great numbers of Indians, with out the loss of three men in all the time that war lasted, and in [consideration] of the equal and uncorrupt Justice I had distributed to all men”. I was able to use this quote in a sufficient way because it was primary source from Governor Berkeley that helped me get a better understanding of what he thought was good for the people he governed over. I really liked the templates from the They Say, I Say book. The templates really helped me to develop my paper, and keep it organized. An example of a template in my essay from the book was when I wrote, “Although I agree that trading with Indians in some cases has proven fatal, but I cannot accept his overall conclusion that all Indians are bad”. I used this template from chapter four of the They Say, I Say book. This template shows how to agree with an argument and then at the same time disagree with a different aspect of the argument. This helps add complexity to an argument instead of just simply agreeing or disagreeing. This template helped me analyze my quote in a deeper because I was explaining both parts of my subject.

-----When the quarter we did a lot of writing. At first the writing was not necessarily supposed to be structured. We did a lot of free writing in the beginning just to get in the habit of it everyday. This really helped because I didn’t feel any pressure at first to right a certain way, because everyone has there own style of writing. After we got used to writing everyday, we put structure on our writing by looking at worksheets how to put together a paragraph and we read templates from our They Say, I Say book which I was surprised how much it benefited and helped develop my writing. The templates were there to help build up my writing and get it out of the same old style of having the same word phrases or same transition words. It helped my writing in the way so my reader wouldn’t become easily bored. Writing 101 benefited me greatly during this quarter and I would definitely recommend this class to anyone as an excellent source in improving writing skills.

Relflective Letter Draft 1 (what i have so far)

Writing 101 was a great experience for me this quarter. When I was in high school, I was a pretty good writer and generally did well in my English classes, so when I came into this class, I thought it would be easy. I learned more about writing in this class then all my high school English classes combined. Despite how much I have learned this quarter; there is still room for improvement in my writing. I believe that writing every day helped me develop skills to write my loyalists’ essay and my Bacon’s Rebellion essay.

When the quarter first began we did a lot of writing. At first the writing was not necessarily supposed to be structured. We did a lot of free writing in the beginning just to get in the habit of it everyday. This really helped because I didn’t feel any pressure at first to right a certain way, because everyone has there own style of writing. After we got used to writing everyday, we put structure on our writing by looking at worksheets how to put together a paragraph and we read templates from our They Say, I Say book which I was surprised how much it benefited and helped develop my writing. The templates were there to help build up my writing and get it out of the same old style of having the same word phrases or same transition words. It helped my writing in the way so my reader wouldn’t become easily bored.

This quarter we wrote an essay where we had states selected for us and a side, either loyalist or patriot also picked for us. Despite the fact that many people thought essay 2 was easier, I thought it was a bit more difficult, just because of the fact that most of our research work was given to us in documents and other sources for essay 1. We also had more time to put our work together for essay 1. I thought that finding research through j stor for my specific state proved pretty difficult, and I think I could have had more to write about if I had better sources. Right now what I really struggled on in this easy was organization. I believe I had an excellent starting point for the essay, but I need to work on reading over my essay and making sure it makes sense in the order that I put it in. This is one thing that Craig really stressed and I learned a lot from this essay and I will change this in the future.

One essay that I wrote that I felt I did a pretty good job on was my Bacon’s Rebellion essay. I liked this essay because of all the resources we had prior to writing the essay. I felt that because of all the resources, I could really gather an opinion of what I wanted to write about.