My First Draft: A Time When I Was Wrong

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On my first draft, A time when I was wrong Essay 1, I wrote mainly about how I was wrong and about the time I was wrong without explaining the detail on how I was wrong, and the effect my decision brought me later in life. I wrote about the way I gave the news of dropping out of school to my mother. I didn’t add a dialogue, I just described the event without any interaction.
My second draft, the revised version, was an improvement to my first draft. I added a dialogue that discussed how and why I took the decision of dropping out of school, and a dialogue between my mother and I discussing this decision. I was somewhat pleased the way the story carried along and how it ended. I basically gave the reader the chance to put some thought

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