Noah Miller’s Blog

While writing my introduction  I   realized  that it was much harder than what  I  thought  it was  going to be .  But it helped me learn how to better engage the reader  from the start. My writing  process  started with look ing  at my outline that  I   previously  made  to help g u ide me   through  writing  the  essay, after  that  I  wrote a rough draft without wor rying about absolute perfection , and then  I  revised it to improve the clarity and flow of my writing . One thing that  I  learned was how  important  it  is to provide background  information  that leads  smoothly  into my thesis. I also learned  that writing a strong hook takes  practice ,  and you  can't  just write  something   interesting;   it needs to  be  something that  connects   dire...

  While writing this outline for my  essay,   I   realized  how important  organization  is  when it  comes  to starting a research paper. At  first,   I  started to writ e   mainly on   the historical  changes in aviation technology, but while working on this I realized that  that my paper needed to connect those changes to how American  society viewed military pilots over time.  This helped me improve my thesis and my background section so that they  focused more on  society's  understanding  rather than just technology. One  specific thing that  I  learned  was how useful topic sentences are for  guiding each body paragraph . Writing  the topic sentences  early  made it  a lot easier to  decide what information and sources  need  to be in each section.  Another thing that I learned was how   outlining ...