UWRT 1104-009 Fall 2015 November 14th, 2015 Assignment 2 Reflection: After hours and hours of, on my part, lethargy and procrastination, I finally got this paper done. Though I did take a long time to finish this paper, and most of it may not make sense, I am particularly proud of some of the things that I accomplished in this paper. What I know for a fact is that I have never done a paper like this, with the content an all, ever in my life. I am not implying that I have never done research papers, because god knows Ive done them, but I just mean that I have never done a research paper on a topic that is not controversial or factually sane. I have always done papers on things like solar energy, southern literature as described by William Faulkner, and even the power of oppression; but I have never researched a topic like a movie. It was hard Im not going to lie; trying to find feasible and credible sources on a specific topic about Harry Potter was, but I got through it. I am proud of the fact that I was able to submit a fully fleshed-out copy of my paper. I am proud of all of the effort that I put into this assignment as well. However, I am not proud of the fact that my paper needed one too many improvements. I would be fine with fixing a few problems, grammatical or contextual, but the problems that I encountered in my peer commentary was not being specific enough in certain matters. I am not a perfectionist, though Id like to be, but I am glad that I got the comments that I did so I was able to make any improvements. Although some comments were helpful, others were not. One comment that I found helpful was by Amalia Striker when she told me The interjections "(Like me!)" "LOVE (Yes, Love)" are interesting and potentially attention grabbing ways of writing. They could be adding a lot to your paper. They could also be affecting your "Professional writing voice/tone" and taking away from it. A suggestion for fixing this to help would be to maybe move these to an earlier place in your introduction, to create more of an attention grab, or to adjust them slightly to keep a professional voice/ tone. After seeing this comment, I think that I finally got the fact that I tend to get carried away sometimes and use comedy, or jut catchy phrases or sarcasm, to grab some attention, and that I need to watch that because it, indeed, does remove a bit of professional-ness, if you will, from my writing. There were any comments that I got that were not helpful this time. I noticed that my paper consisted, in many parts, of the skill of critical reading. One of the things that I wrote, that I thought reflected critical reading, was from Nikolaus Windingers Sacrifice in the Harry Potter Series from a Girardian Perspective where I described Windingers perspective on prophecies by describing thetwo ways to sacrifice: scapegoating and selfoffering. We can see both of these forms of sacrifices throughout the Harry Potter series, from the moment that Lily gave her life to save Harry. I think that I also used critical reflection in my writing when making revisions to my paper from the feedback that I was given. I was given a comment to specify a bit more on the main idea or ideas that you are trying to bring out and that is exactly what I took into account when revising my paper so that I make significant adjustments.