Assignment Reflection: Bryan's Color Coded Analysis

I am a highly visual person, and the direction to clearly identify the two aspects of my paper in opposing colors was extremely helpful. It is often hard to get a sense of balance between evidence and ideas unless you have it chunked off into large block quotes. Sorting them out so visually made it immediately apparent where my paper was going, and the balance was something I had been worrying about. I thought it was a great tool, and I will use it in the future.

As far as the tone and organization of the assignment, I felt intrigued and comfortable with it, which is one of the reasons I chose it. In other words, it was challenging without being intimidating. It made me think about the paper in a new way. I will definitely borrow the same approach with my students at some point in their drafting process.

I learned from this assignment that I need to edit down some of my quotes. I had suspected it needed to be done, and now I have the visual evidence of exactly that.