Navigating Early

The checklist titled “Checklist for Revising and Editing”, in The Little Seagull Handbook, provided eight great tips for revision of a paper. The tips ranged from appealing to a specific audience to punctuation errors. The biggest issues I have with writing are sentence structure and punctuation and mechanics.

2. Can you suggest a suitable template to use and say what style / structure would be most appropriate for this document?

5. What’s not a part of your paper that you think might help a reader understand or appreciate it more? What didn’t you put in? The setting of the story would help readers better understand the story. It wasn’t completely left out, but because the paper could only contain 750 words, there was no room for a thorough detail in the setting.

1. Who are the most important characters? Identify the protagonist/antagonist/ Write down important information and characteristics about each one.

1. CHARACTER DESCRIPTION & GROWTH: Describe the main character. How does he/ she change or develop internally (on the inside) through the story? Explain what he/ she is like at the beginning of the novel, the middle, and then how he/she finally changed by the end. Give specific text evidence from the story to support your ideas.

Share your draft with a partner and have them mark up your draft following the protocol below. Use this feedback to revise your draft.

Thesis: The events Pi endured are symbolized best in the book because it is vastly detailed, shows the journey as an extensive gruesome journey, and allows you to envision Pi’s thoughts as you travel with him on his journey.

2. Begin by listing your character’s experiences. If you have many, list just the four most

____2. Create a colorful plot graph on graph paper, showing at least 10 events in the story in order and their level of intensity

My second paper had no title but would have been called “Singing for Masculinity”. This second paper highlights the frequent mistakes that I made because of no editing and not giving working overtime to put forth a quality product. During my first draft I had many comments on terrible syntactical errors throughout my paper especially on awkward sentence phrasing. An example was “...when some athletes join the choir it gains a different perception”. This sentence sounds like I am just talking normally. With phase “some athletes” I am not expressing exactly who these athletes are like football players. This sentence structure does not exemplify who I am as a writer. After reading all of the comments that were given to me, I started to learn

Now in this I made many mistakes. This is one part of the paper that I have the most problems with. There were a few times in the paper that I would add an ‘s’ to the end of a word that didn’t need it. Or I was simply reading over a misspelling. I can fix this by reading over my paper and by running it through spellcheck.

Analyzing my strengths and weaknesses as a writer is extremely important. Despite the fact that I understand the structure of a good argument, I still miss obvious errors in my papers because I lack the skills necessary to properly proofread my own work. In the future, I plan on spending a large portion of my time

Expect the length to be about 15 pages (I am not picky on length. If your paper is 10 or 25 pages and meets the criteria, I

Pi’s life changing traumatic event came while aboard a ship with his family. The ship sank and all but himself and few zoo animals survived. Pi lost his family and had to survive under the worst of circumstances. He was without a great supply of food and water. Also, Pi was without a family. Inevitably, Pi suffered while lost at sea. The scorching hot sun and lack of food caused great punishment for his health. Also, the adversity led to the failure of Pi thinking he could withstand the trials of being a shipwrecked youngman. His courageous success of survival through the loss of his family and suffering earned him the title of an archetypal hero. Heroism is not only achieved by greatness; additionally, it can be earned through the brave conquering of death and

The mathematical constant to which ‘Pi’ relates his name has a value of 3.14 which is the approximate fraction 22/7 this represents the 227 days Pi survived at sea. When Pi is introducing himself at his new school he goes up to the board in each class during attendance, writes his name and beside it “π = 3.14” and draws “…a large circle, which [he] then slice[s] in two with a diameter, to evoke that basic lesson of geometry.” Pi repeats this same routine with every teacher on the premise that “repetition is important in the training not only of animals but