Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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For the first part of my final portfolio I decided to use my project one literary analysis. My literary analysis was on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The reason I chose to use this essay is due to the appreciation I have for Poe. He has become one of my favorite writers and “The Tell-tale Heart” is one of his best works in my opinion. Another reason I decided to use this essay was due to the grade I received, it was the highest between my first and second projects. Due to the grade being a bit higher there was less work needed to be done, but just enough to have room for improvement. The organization of the essay and the content made is easier to revise the problems addressed in the comments from first completed project. The main thing I needed to revise to better the essay were largely based off my second body …show more content…
The wording throughout the paragraph tended to be confusing and not worded correctly. There was also a lack of citation that weakened the paragraph. Another problem was the repetition of certain words, especially the word however. To help with my revision I went online and used a database to check for grammar problems. As I went through revising using the database I discovered other problems such as sentence structure. Some of the sentences throughout the essay were very confusing and often words were misused. I revised multiple sentences by finding words that better suit the topic sentence of the paragraph. To revision the number of times I used words I highlighted the ones that were used the most and found synonyms for the words or completely deleted the words if it was not important for the