Blog Assignment 7

For this essay assignment I used two sources that were both movies because I considered it a rough essay and wanted to focus on the films first. So as a viewer when I was watching these movies I had to think as if something like a persons identity being completely changed in “The Net” could actually happen. When I watch most movies I find myself thinking that something like that could only happen in a movie, but when viewing “Wag the Dog” and “The Net” it helped to make the ideas Nye was trying to convey more serious by thinking the movies could happen in real life. Nye’s point in using these films as sources in his essay’s was to show that the plots in both films were not so far fetched and could actually be a possibility in today’s society. I really enjoyed that fact that I was able to use these movies as sources because even though reading is not always boring it was still a neat experience to be able to watch a movie and relate it to my essays topic. When doing the peer editing I found that once again most of the comments were very positive, but both people who commented felt that my essay may have been a bit too short. These comments helped because I felt that if both people felt that the rough draft was too short then it would be a good idea to expand on the topics more. I also liked seeing how other students were writing their essays and noticing similarities between theirs and my own helped confirm some things I had in my essay. From what I noticed with Nye’s sources he used them very well to tie into his own ideas and I think that is the most important part. Even if the source you are using may not agree with your opinion on their writing you can still pull away important concepts from a source and the better you explain how the topics relate the better it will help make the source a more powerful part of an essay. The most important part of writing a research paper will be to do a source justice when using it as an example. I don’t want to try and make the source seem irrelevant and by tying in as many good ideas as possible it will ultimately help my research papers topic to be clearer.