Reflection

Since the number of rough drafts required for the final project was cut down to one rough draft, a lot of effort went into just that one draft. Cantey required that the rough draft be at least six pages like the final paper. Having to produce only one rough draft did not allow for concentration on specific areas of the paper over various periods of time. However, I must say I did prefer to write only one rough draft. I did not and still do not see the point of writing a rough draft or multiple rough drafts of a paper when the drafts and the actual final paper are required to be the same left. I do not think any real editing will get done. It’s more like proofreading for grammatical errors when that much time and effort is put into a simple rough draft. I personally viewed the rough draft as the actual paper.
In writing the drafts there were certain areas that I wanted to be sure to go into specific detail about. My topic of plastic surgery and youth was a perfect example of when to use descriptive imagery in order to convey emotion. My paper included numerous real life examples of plastic surgery gone wrong and plastic gone right. One example focused on all the diseases and illnesses one girl contracted from a bad reaction to breast implants. Another example focused on a young girl who had her life drastically changed from a nose job. She went from being the girl ridiculed daily by both boys and girls to the girl all guys wanted to date and girls wanted to befriend. Going back and forth between the negative and positive experiences of teenagers who have underwent plastic surgery is how I managed to mediate through the majority of six pages.
However, when I thought I had accomplished my task in mediating between youth and their growing urge to go under the knife, I realized my paper was not quite long enough. Another major factor I thought to include in my paper concerns not only adolescents but adults who consent to plastic surgery in daily growing numbers. I decided to include the doctors’ view points on the growing trend of plastic surgery. Regarding plastic surgery in youth, I found that doctors were split evenly in the belief on whether teens need plastic surgery. This divide made mediating my paper easy. Half of the doctors stated that the majority of youth do not know what they are truly doing when craving and consenting to plastic surgery. Doctors do not think teens realize their bodies are still changing and no person’s body is ever truly perfect. Although, a large portion of doctors believe that plastic surgery is the cure for the social problems of certain teenagers. These doctors think that pinning back ears that stick out, reducing and reshaping a large nose, and increasing or reducing breast size will help lead the teen to social acceptance and higher self-esteem.
In the final revision of my paper I mainly concentrated on grammatical errors. I felt as if I placed all the information I needed to in the rough draft.