I really enjoyed the prompt for paper 1. Categorization is a topic that is so present in our day to day lives that it is easy to find good examples of how it harms and hurts. It is also a topic that has an easy answer that is much harder to achieve than it is to find. I think the biggest changes I made in my essay were when I added examples. After having a couple peer editors, we decided adding specific examples would strengthen my arguments. This is something I try to do in all of my papers; however, I sometimes struggle with fitting my examples in smoothly and I often don’t know how to transition back to my original thought. There were also times when I wanted to include more authors from our other readings, but I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do it with purpose instead of just doing it to up the word count. I would have liked to go further into the historical aspects of categorization. I wrote a lot of my negative categories paragraph early on, and by the time I brought in examples, I liked what I had written too much to change it. I also enjoyed writing about feminism. While I am not a super active feminist (as far as activism work goes) I do identify as a feminist and it is a topic I can rant about.