CUNY Academic Commons

Analysis
I had to look over the news to find something I wanted to analyze. I ended up choosing to go with an article about suneung (CSAT), a South Korean test similar to the SAT. The article was was “Suneung: The day silence falls over South Korea” by Hossein Sharif. I sat down and annotated the article so I knew what parts I wanted to focus on in my essay. After this it just came to getting a good outline done and the drafting process came naturally.

Research was fairy easy. I looked for other articles that spoke about the CSAT and saw what they did differently. Then it was a matter of explaining the differences that other authors did.

My planning was all about the outlines. I knew this was a hard paper to write since it is easy to throw in some bias. I had to revise my outlines and drafts to make sure any bias was removed. Also, I had to chose my quotes carefully. I did not want to just choose some random quote, but ones that really supported my writing.

I decided to take into account both my peer review feedback and professor feedback. I think doing this helped my paper because I saw it from a students perspective and professors feedback. The student feedback pointed out what had too much or too little information where as the professor input pointed out grammar and spelling errors.