This project was fairly easy to do for me, the most difficult part was not having any guidelines to follow. While writing essays I normally keep the rubric right by me to look off of as I am typing to make sure i am following all the guidelines and won't loose dumb points. But for this essay the rubric was pretty simple and didn't have many rules to follow so it was difficult for me to write it because I was worried i would do something wrong even though there wasn't much you could do wrongs.
Also, even though i liked the idea that you could choose any topic you wanted, the topic i choose was very broad and could be taken in many different directions with an open rubric. So instead of writing about how reality TV can affect you, or why its bad for children to be exposed to reality TV at such a early age, i decided to look at the topic in a different way and talked about why reality TV is so appealing to viewers and why it's so popular. This narrowed down my topic a ton so it made it easier to break it down into paragraphs and come up with 3 main points.
That's a really neat approach to writing a paper. I usually look at the rubric too, but I'm interested in your method. I wanted to design this project so it would challenge you all to work without "genre conventions". I'm happy to see that this is what challenged you the most! Good post!
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