This week in class our rough draft essays for our Tragedy essay was due. The rubic for our essay was to reflect on other authors opinion and explain how we felt about the authors opinion and compare it to our opinion on what tragedy was. My basic opinion on tragedy was basically the same as Aristotle’s that tragedy happened to someone not necessarily a person that is a part of a royal family but has an arrogant behavior and falls from power because of their actions and receives a punishment that does not fit their crime. Throughout the essay I tried to prove my point my using other authors articles for evidence. Overall I think that my essay is very strong but I feel like there is not enough of my opinion in the essay. In past essays I have not had a lot of evidence with other readings, so with this essay I made sure to add a lot of evidence but I feel like it is the bulk of MY ESSAY. For my final draft I want to add more of my opinion and find a way to subtract some detail that doesn't need to be added.
I really like the point/example you brought up about Aristotle and I agree with that. I sometimes have the same problem, I don't put enough of my opinion in there I mostly just add what information is supposed to be in there, not what I think about it. I'm going to add that in my final piece as well, I'm sure your essay will turn out really good!
ReplyDeleteSydney, In my essay I also used authors for evidence to show my point of view. Also, I agree with you and Alex I just state the facts and their opinions but not my own but i feel like I really did in my essay :)
ReplyDeletemaybe you should have a clear paragraph stating your opinion that way you can make sure that the reader understands what you think
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