WRD103 Process Report

Professor Katie Brown

YOUR NAME: Justin Honra TITLE OF PAPER: English Should be the United States Official Language 1. How much time (about) did you spend planning this paper? (Include reading, note-taking, invention, brainstorming, outlining, etc.) Explain what you did. It took me about 1.5 hrs to read 3 relevant articles and respond/reflect on them. It also took me another half hour to brainstorm and outline my paper. 2. How much time did you spend drafting? Revising? I spent about an hour drafting my first draft of the paper. I spent maybe 3-4 hrs peer reviewing and revising my paper with classmates at school and my cousin in Virginia via Skype. 3. What do you believe are the strengths of this paper? On what levels does it work well? I believe that my paper is structured very neatly in regards to following my thesis. I also think that it has the right tone that will pull the reader in and demand the reader to question the subject. 4. What do you think are the weaknesses in the paper? What might you do differently or change in this paper if you had more time? I believe that I could have added factual statistics and cite outside sources to make my argument more credible instead of it sounding like all opinion. 5. What do you want a reader to think or understand after having read this paper? (This should be something he or she didnt already know.)

That this issue is not one that he or she would just see on news or just read about and forget. He or she is either promoting or demoting the push for English as the official language of the US by simply speaking it or not speaking it in day to day life. 6. What kind of feedback would you like me to give on your paper? If you ultimately decide to revise this for your portfolio, how can I help? Is the argument I am making obvious? Are there parts that are not relevant and should be omitted?