Blog 12 Best and Weakest Portfolio Paper

Out of my three papers that I have selected the one that represents my best work is my personal analysis essay. I think this because I believe that I have good argument that parents really shape what we do with our lives and who we become. I think that I have good quotes to back it up and an overall good organization to my essay. One thing that I tried to work on my unpacking my quotes and I thought that I did that well in this essay. I think my essay that needs that most work in my research paper. I was confused on the prompt and I thought that we were doing a research paper about the book, tv show, or movie we selected and what effect it had on American culture. So I have a lot of information on my tv series and why it was so influential. But I need to change my content and explain the change in American culture that occurred and use my tv show to support that. So unfortunately I have A LOT of work to do on that. And im bummed about that because I thought I had a really good start to my essay and now I have to throw that out. My weakest area in the paper would be not starting off on the right foot and I need to do more research and change the angle that I was going on. I also want to do more explication but of different episodes. Over all I have a lot of work to do on my portfolio. I don’t know about anyone else but this portfolio is stressing me out!

Blog 11: Krakauer's Research

Overall I feel that Krakauer did a pretty good job in obtaining good research for Into The Wild. By using sources of the actual people that McCandless encountered during his journey was the most reliable was to go about getting quality research. There is a problem with this method though because Krakauer collected his research after McCandless died so the people he interviewed might not have remembered everything correctly or been as accurate as they could have been. But I think that for the most part interviewing those people was the best way he could have obtained research. One thing he did lack information in is the actual cause of death of McCandless. Yes Krakauer does give his thoughts on what he thinks happened to McCandless but they were later disproven. I also think that it was good the Krakuer went up to the site where McCandless spent his final days. I think the best research is hands on and that is what he did by going up into Alaska