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f) Describe your writing process. How did you narrow the chosen topic? g) What kind of planning did you do? h) What steps did you go through, what changes did you make along the way, what decisions did you face, and how did you make the decisions? i) How did comments from your peers help you? j) How did any class activities help you? k) Sign the letter. l) For reflection: Does the essay really say what the letter promises?
 * Part 2: While you are writing the essay, finish your letter by including the information below. Don’t forget to revise your letters. **

When we had to choose a subject to write about we decided it would be a good idea to discuss about literature, since it is something that we both like and enjoy writing about. Frankenstein was our choice because it is a classic of English literature and we had studied about it before, so it would be easier for us to discourse about it. Frankenstein has a lot of interesting subjects, because of that our first idea was try to write about a little bit of everything, but this would be confusing. In order to narrow our topic we thought that would be good if we tried to link two of the main themes of the book ; since we are a pair we could divide the themes equally and each one of us would be responsible to write about a theme. We discussed about several topics and we came to the conclusion that we could make a connection between search for knowledge and judgmental society. After being able to make this connection we decided to write about these two themes. Our plan was basically to choose two themes so we could divide them between us, since we are a pair. First we read the book again, for we needed to pay attention to our topics and how Mary Shelley addresses them and also to find some quotes that would help us to show our point of view. After that, we searched for articles about the book that could guide our writing. We found many articles and after reading them all we chose two of them which had the ideas we were searching for. We went through all the steps suggested in class, and they really helped us, especially the one in which we had to “talk with our sources” because by doing that we were able to connect our ideas with the ideas of experts and this helped us to write a very informative essay. While going through all these steps we decided, as mentioned before, to write about only two themes because it would be better for us to organize or text instead of writing about a lot of themes at the same time. When we needed to make any decision about the essay we would talk to each other and take in consideration all the points of views, for we wanted the essay to please both of us.

During the process of writing the essay, we both commented and suggested modifications to each other’s parts several times. This peer-editing was very helpful because it was not easy for us to see our own mistakes, and the fact that we were both opened for critics made us listen carefully to the modifications we suggested to each other. In addition to the peer-editing, one activity held in class was extremely important for us to decide about our topic ant to make it easier to be written: the Letter of Intentions. The Letter of Intentions was divided into two parts, and to each part there were very specific questions we had to answer in a letter format, as the name suggests. With the help of these questions, we were able to reflect about all the ideas we had, to narrow the topics we thought and to finally write the essay.

Sincerely, Northern Lights