Writer's Letter
I approached the paper by trying to pick a speech that I liked, which was the Miracle speech but at first I was afraid that it wouldn’t have enough intertextuallity for it to be an effective paper. I still went with it because I realized that even though it isn’t a long speech, there are still a lot of historical references in the speech and I could write about the themes surrounding it. However I found it really hard during the writing process to make an effective argument for the paper. I still am not really sure if my argument is completely there and is effective throughout so that was probably the biggest difficulty that I had when writing and revising the paper. Also from my draft, I needed to add a lot more stuff to it because it was very short so I had to add a lot more analysis while still trying to form my argument. I think that peer response really helped me because I got a lot more insight on what I could analyze in my speech from reading other peoples papers as well as the feedback I got. I kind of want the reader to feel how important this game was in history and how it really was such a big moment that the US team took down one of the best and hardest teams in the world. I also wanted to show how coaching and coming together as one really affects how a team works and plays in real life. I came to the insight that before I really start to write and analyze my paper, I should form a strong argument that I could debate about from the start so I don’t have to go back into my paper and change it because it’s not good enough. I feel like this will help me get my paper done more efficiently so I don’t have to go back and reread everything I wrote to see if it works.