Essay 2: The Tory Report

This is a reflection on the second essay written for Writing 101.
1- My first essay contained a lot of writing and was all over the map. I said things using more words than neccesary and my topics were not always precisely answered. This second essay that I wrote (or at least the first part, the second part was written by my partner) had a centralized topic that was constantly reffered to and was checked five times over for wordiness, four of those times were by different people.
2- The meshing of the two parts was severly stubbed by a connection problem with my partner. His internet was down for the whole weekend until about one hour before the due time, so we had little time to mesh the two together, although he did have my thesis and an example of my writing style for the essay to go off of. We were attempting to copy a newspaper format, and the article would be the letter from a Royal Governor (loyalist)to warn the colonists of the Patriots, and the second part was the retort to the letter by a Patriot merchant. I think that the meshing in terms of points addressed is very good, for the points that are being touched upon are about the same events, but the discussion and ideas surrounding those events are different due to the opposing views.
3- Luckily, our views were fairly similar in the sense of the format and writing, and as long as we followed the format we had agreed on, it was ok how we wrote. If one of us saw a problem, the other one was actually expecting a problem to be found so that they could fix it. What I mean by this is that we checked each others works because the other was looking for any mistakes he might have made. Overall, we both worked hard and that was evident in the reports from each other and the meshing between the two sections was fairly suprising in the way it was accomplished, which was that it was actually accomplished in that short amount of time. If I were to grade the project, I would say it earns an P+ for the first section and a P for the second.