TO:            Professor Crystal Rodwell

FROM:      Franco Buestan 

DATE:       02/21/2022

SUBJECT: Reflection on “The Adidas Adilette Shower Slides”

Throughout writing the product review essay, I struggled and at the same time improved on my strategies for drafting, revising, and editing.

In the drafting process the problem that I encountered was making sure I met the word count. I went straight from the intro paragraph into the criteria. This prevented me from adding information about the slides. The first rough draft was straight nonsense, I had no organization whatsoever. The best draft had to be brought for peer editing so I rewrote it. The second draft I wrote was with the help of outlining my work. This enabled me to create a somewhat better draft because the outline helped me include all parts of the essay clearly and efficiently. When revising I had trouble identifying my faults. That is why the peer review really helped and benefitted the final essay. The error that was identified by my peers was the unnecessary usage of personal pronouns. For example, “used in your daily lifestyle” and “since I bought them”. 

Another fault that was in my draft was that I was too repetitive in regards to my criteria. I repeated the same piece of information throughout three body paragraphs. I kept writing that I had the sandals for “three years”. When doing the editing process I struggled to find a better criteria for my product. I was not sure whether I should change the qualities that I repeated or choose a whole different characteristic. In the end I just selected other qualities and it worked. In addition, I got rid of the personal pronouns throughout the essay. For instance, instead of writing “ I have worn them…”, in the final piece I wrote, “they can be worn…”. The use of personal pronouns is not adequate when writing a technical piece and I was not aware of that. Changing all the personal pronouns in my final piece was vital.

Through writing this essay I learned how to be more critical when revising my work. The peer review process was helpful towards this. It allowed me to see writing techniques that I can use in my future papers such as stance and style, depending on the task. 

Even though I struggled with the course learning outcomes I was able to gain some strategies to use later on when revising, editing , and drafting a piece of writing.When revising I will make sure that I correlate the draft with the rubric and criteria. During editing I will make sure that I pay attention to peer revisions along with my own thoughts. When writing drafts I will always make sure that an outline is made prior. Using these strategies in the future will help me improve my writing a bit. There still is a lot to learn.

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