My final blog!

So this is the last blog I will be writing as AP lit is now coming to a close. I am certainly going to miss the class and all the fun times I had in it, as well as what I have learned. But, unfortunately…. Blogs will be one thing that I will not miss.

Anyways in today’s blog I am going to speak of the preparation for the AP exam, as my multiple choice is fairly decent the one thing I have to focus on are my essays as they have not always been up to standard for what I wanted them to be. I have decided that I want to focus on three things for my essays, these three things will guarantee me higher grades if I do them correctly.

Number 1: Thesis

Number 2: Organization

Number 3: Support

These are the three things I seem to struggle with most… I have a decent understanding of what diction I need to use and how it should flow, I also know of quotes that I can use and I think I write long enough essays. But the three above are things I struggle upon and need to fix

Thesis- My thesis has always been a problem for me as I insert information that is not necessarily relevant. What a thesis should be is something that I write about that has a main point, a main idea, or central message. The argument I make in my paper should reflect this main idea. The sentence that captures your position on this main idea is what we call a thesis statement.

So my thesis must be shortened and only include what I am writing about, my point, and who the author is.

Organization is another thing that I have always had problems with. I have decent ideas that can be very interesting but sometimes it gets lost in the mumble jumble sporadic fragmented organization that I have. The essays that I have written and have been taught to write follow a very chronological sequence. So we have an introduction and then three points which finally lead to an ending conclusion. My problem is that I will get side tracked and talk about things that do not really relate to what I should be talking about. So What I Need to do is stay on topic and perhaps talk about extra tid bits in the conclusion

Finally I need to work on support. This just means adding more information or going deeper to make sure the reader understands the “so what” so I could add more quotes or talk more about certain events that happened in the story. Simple things such as that will help my essay go from a 6 to maybe a 7 or even an eight if  I do well enough, hopefully studying this will help me prepare more for the Ap exam this week.