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1. What are you most proud of in your Life: The Book writing? Try to describe this is detail!
I am most proud of all the good research I was able to find. I liked how even though there was no real verdict on whether or not there is a homosexual gene, I got to include a lot of good information that was relevant and argued many different ideas. I talked about a few different scientists and some religious websites who all had many different opinions.
2. What are some changes or new ideas that you have developed in your writing through the course of this semester?
Well, this actually makes me kind of frustrated with school because it seems like every year they teach us something new, or just a new way to do something that we already know how to do, but it completely goes against what we've learned how to do in the past. When we were earlier in high school and middle school the main rubric basically just said to write about everything in the introduction and then write something different in each paragraph. Now we have to write a short but attractive introduction paragraph and talk about many different things in each paragraph to make it flow. Although I really like how it sounds now, it frustrates me that we spend all of this time learning how to do something one way just so that at the end of the road, we are told that the way we do it is wrong and we need to learn something completely new.
3. If you had a little more time to work on your writing for Life: The Book, what would you do differently? What would you change about your writing?
The main thing that I would change would be to add more biology. I am not sure that I did a great job with this paper and it is not really my best work, but I stressed a lot over this project and I would add more about each of the different components of humanities. I also wasn't too sure if I was blending it correctly and I would use some extra time to make everything in the paper flow together even though it jumps from topic to topic.
4. How has the additional element of publication in a book affected the way you approach writing? It had changed it in the sense that I get more people's opinion in my work because I think it just sounds better that way, and it is the way that they do it in the real world when a book is being published so I think it is a good idea to get many different perspectives and tastes to add to your writing.