Is it a good idea to go back rewrite previous essays? (1 Viewer)
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ExtremelyBoredUser
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Only rewrite if you're memorising an essay you want to use in the near future. Otherwise its pointless to rewrite.
aulinia
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I mean if you’re looking to improve, then yeah. But also I usually just look at feedback and then do another seperate question then apply the feedback and ask my teacher to mark it.
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It depends on how you like to approach reflecting on ways to improve. Personally, after I submitted assingments or completed exams, I wasn't as interested in how I didn't perform well as much as why. I found the external factors on my work ethic - be it motivation, time-management or mindset - far more valuable in changing my performance than simply looking at a marking criteria to gauge my strengths and weaknesses.
For essays specifically, I always preferred answering another question with a different scenario or context to the one prior. That allowed me to approach a reattempt with a clearer understanding of what I wanted to change rather than continue to have thoughts lingering around about why the work I previously completed wasn't recieved well by the marker.
For essays specifically, I always preferred answering another question with a different scenario or context to the one prior. That allowed me to approach a reattempt with a clearer understanding of what I wanted to change rather than continue to have thoughts lingering around about why the work I previously completed wasn't recieved well by the marker.