Recasting The Canterbury Tales: Stage 4

My essay evolved a lot between my rough draft and final draft. The peer review helped bring to my attention that a lot of my essay was a plot summary of the tale and that I needed to do more of analyzing my character and setting and justifying my recasting of the tale. My peers also pointed out that my video contained some irrelevant clips, which I was then able to remove or cut short. On my own, I also improved my draft by expanding on my interpretation and analysis of the tale and using textual evidence to support my choices for recasting. I also added more of my own works and video editing into the video and relied less on found video. Unfortunately, a few mechanical errors still remained, which could have been avoided with a little more editing, and I needed to go into more detail with my analyses and make sure to always back up my claims with hard evidence.

After receiving feedback on the Resetting the Canterbury Tales assignment, I tried to add more multimodal and visual elements to accompany my text this time such as juxtaposing the pictures of the Tabbard and the space station to compare the changes I have made to the original setting in my recasting and the image of the Franklin on the hovercraft and pictures from Star Wars.

In this assignment, I learned that an argument is more easily understood and better conveyed through the use of visual aids. Strategies such as drafting and peer reviewing will also be useful in other situations as well. Drafting allows me to organize my ideas and helps me catch any errors or anything I can improve on. Peer reviewing brings to my attention things I have not noticed but should consider improving, a valuable strategy in the process of writing an essay or composing a presentation.