The conference

The conference for Project #1 was very helpful. I have struggled with grammar in the past and it has been an issue with past papers. The notes given were definitely very helpful. I needed to further my thought process and give the reader more background information for the genre I chose. I also had things out of order and that needed to be fixed. Going to the conference was nerve racking because the last time I went to one my teacher said "you can keep the last paragraph" and that was it. It wasn't said that bluntly and was very nicely communicated, but that was the gist. This time, my ideas were encouraged in a helpful manor and was instructed to move my ideas around in a more logical order since my first draft was indeed a shitty first draft. After this conference I was very confident with my Project 1 and what the final draft would look like. Since the conference I have been focusing on adding conversations I had over that week of hiking with all the people, and things I experienced in detail to make it more personal. As I've always been told, if you don't have a lot of detail it sounds fake, but you can bull shit a story and make it sound real with many specific details. I have been really trying to add a personal touch to the essay to put the reader in my shoes, make the reader able to picture the experience I had with my genre.