WR39A - Tayven Taylor
Disney's representation of female agency in Star Wars
March 2021
This page is dedicated to the final essay that I produced answering the following question: How do Disney films contribute to the construction of society's values and norms about gender roles? I will be reflecting on my writing process and my overall progress towards the course objectives.
Planning and Exploratory Writing
These images are from my Week 4 Exploratory Writing: Star Wars and Gender assignment in which we chose a Disney Star Wars film, analyzed and annotated characters, and wrote a paragraph relating our findings to gender roles and expectations. This assignment helped me develop effective habits for my own writing process as I wrote about the topic my essay was based around. Writing this paragraph helped me as I was able to look back on my work and use it to inspire my essay. Specifically, the highlighted portion of my paragraph helped me to formulate my ideas in my body paragraph. I also used the annotations that I took in my essay.
Week 4 Exploratory Writing: Star Wars and Gender paragraph
Week 4 Exploratory Writing: Star Wars and Gender Leading Male Annotations
Giving Peers advice in Write Body Paragraphs Assignment
Peer Advice from Write the Introductory Paragraphs Assingment
Peer Review
These images are from essay peer review assignments. One image is showing my advice to one of my peers and the other image is advice that I received from a peer. During peer review, I had to leave my feelings behind and read my peer's advice from a critical standpoint in order to improve my work. After being told by many peers that I did not adequately explain Disney's influence, I revised my introductory paragraphs to include Disney's impact on social constructs. While giving advice, I had to make sure to try my best to analyze their literary elements and tell the writer my opinion on their work. Although it was tough, I had to tell one of my peers that her body paragraph did not contain crucial elements. Without these elements, her argument was much weaker. Throughout the quarter, I have improved my peer review skills through practice. After continuous practice, I have strengthened my ability to judge writing subjectively and give my best advice to writers in an effort to help them strengthen their work.
Week 9 Self-Reveiw
Throughout the self-review process, I had to attempt to find any holes in my writing. I thought that the structure of my essay was pretty sound and I also included an abundance of sources and examples; therefore, I had to look into fixing sentence structure errors. I made a few revisions that you can find in the images above. Overall, the self-review helped me understand the importance of reflection. I was able to find issues that I would not have found if I had not reflected on my work.
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After receiving and reading feedback from my peers, I decided that I had to better describe Disney and its influence on social constructions. I referenced an article and discussed the history of Disney and its founder, Walt Disney. I drastically changed the content of my introductory paragraphs by adding such information. My draft was missing a crucial aspect that included the influence of Disney; however, after peer feedback, I revised my draft and included supporting evidence to give robust reasoning for Disney's impact. The second element of my draft that I revised was the structure of my body paragraphs. I originally wanted to have three different sections; however, I opted to utilize two sections. I changed my structure to accommodate two main body paragraphs with two specific focuses. You can see how I revised my paragraph and topic sentences below.
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