Best of Week: The Sea of Information

The most important things I learned from class this week were when we talked about "The Sea of Information" article. While reading I did not see how it connected very well to our class. The author talked about her process in writing a book; How the idea emerged, the research she did, and how different the final product was from what she thought it would be in the start. I did not see any connection to what we were doing to it. Then the next day we discussed it and how it connects to our college essays. I finally realized the point of the article.

I understood that the process that this author went through, in order to write a book, is going to be a similar process for us students when we write our college essays. The process might go something like this: come up with an idea, start to write, get stuck, do some research, edit our original part, get stuck, do more research, realize we want something completely different, and then start all over. One of the main things I got from this article is that your first draft or idea isn't going to be the best one. You have to be willing to accept criticism and be able to edit your essay based on this criticism. In this article she talks about how she completely changes the main subject of her novel after working on it for months. This showed me that I must remain willing to work on my essay, even if it takes awhile.