Why So... Shaky?
A review of my own Ted style Talk The Paradigm Shift Essay was my favorite part of RCL yet. Having found a topic I actually enjoyed researching and talking about, the process of preparation and writing was smooth. The Paradigm Shift Essay took me a good week to draft. There were many points I wished to cover about my Transition in the Superhero genre, and I was extremely satisfied with my final essay. A confidence in the content of my essay was a major boost when I had to prepare my speech. I knew I could go back and use literally the same sentences from my essay (being a conversational writer), while drafting my speech. It took me about two and a half hours to write my speech. Cutting short on the content to fit an appropriate time range was painful - as I did not wish to get ride of the wide variety of pointers I had found during my research; yet, that had to be done. The above mentioned time was inclusive of polishing the wordings to fit my own flow of speech, but excluded t...