Looking at things a different way

When I came to class earlier today, I felt ahead of the game. I had a sudden inspiration to write last night so I started to draft my research paper. After two hours I had about five pages of the research paper done. I felt so accomplished! 

This morning I realized that I still hadn’t come up with the three different openings. So, I took my actual opening as one, but then was stuck. I already had an opening that worked, so I couldn’t find any other way to jump into the essay. After a lot of thinking, I was finally able to write another one (though not a third) that was completely different than the first.

However, in class the two people who read my introductions liked the second opening more. This surprised me because I didn’t put much effort into it, it was done on a whim. However, I decided to try the second introduction and see where it took me. I took the twenty minutes in class and was able to write about a page and a half of an essay that was basically different in every way to my first one. I noticed that I liked it a lot better too, it had more of my personality and it was definitely more of a narrative than my first draft.

I guess there is more than one way into a paper. It surprised me that I could write the same information in such different ways. Although I’m happy with this turn out, I now I have five pages worth of research paper that I probably won't touch again. Though I'm still glad I wrote both and by doing so could learn the importance of having a good lead to go off of.