Overall, since the beginning of the
year my writing has improved in several areas. One of them being voice, which I’m
glad about because that’s a big category. Looking threw all of my papers ‘voice’
was one of the categories that I always received good feedback on. Maybe this
is a technique that I can use to my benefit and where I lack in one category I
can benefit from the voice category. Another area where I have improved is word
choice, at the begging of the year it was pretty limited, now however I can
describe things better and use more words to make my sentences longer. I still
need help with organization, in some of my papers this was my lowest point. I
think that if more and more people review my paper before turning it in, then I
can get some feedback on whenever something doesn’t make sense or I’ve already
mentioned it.
I’ve also noticed that as time goes on my
spelling and conjunctions get better and better. Especially whenever I type my
papers instead of writing them in my notebook. Maybe I can use this information
to my benefit and start typing everything that I write. My ideas is something that varies from paper
to paper usually whenever the paper is assigned and I’m not too interested in
the topic then my ideas will not be strong. However whenever the assignment is
something that I like writing about my ideas tend to be stronger. This might be
related to my level of interest in the paper, I need to learn how to always do
well in ideas because it is the main part of the paper. If the ideas in the
paper are dead, then the whole paper itself is dead. Sentence fluency is
something that I’ve always struggled with. For some reason I always have a hard
time moving from one sentence to another without any awkward pauses or leaving
something out. Organization is another
topic that varies from paper to paper, sometimes I know what will sound good at
the beginning, middle and end of a paper, then sometimes I forget and say
things that should be left for the end or things that should have been mentioned
from the very beginning.
My writing this year I believe has
only gotten better; I now know the different types of writing techniques and
topics that you should stick to. I also have learned different ways of how to
write a paper and what the differences are between them. I also have improved
and gotten to know what my strengths and weakness are. Most of the grades that
I got on my paper matched up on the rubrics, however on some I feel like I
deserved a little more. They were most the same when talking about word choice
and punctuation errors, however when it came to sentence fluency I thought I
did a better job than what I was categorized into in the rubric.
On the WrAP test I had trouble with sentence
fluency and spelling words correctly. Also with organization from paragraph to
paragraph. I could have written more too. However I did do a good job on
staying on topic and the voice of the paper overall was fairly well. On the
Narrative Essay I preformed a good job on ideas and organization as well as the
voice. All three of them were there, I was particularly proud of this because usually
one of those I do not do too well on. I could have worked more on sentence
fluency and conventions, it was not a bad score I just could have reviewed the
paper more to correct careless mistakes. On the Literacy Analysis paper I
scored lower than usual for me. I think this was because this type of paper was
harder for me to write therefore I lacked in supporting the thesis,
organization and in general. I overall did well in voice, word choice and
sentence fluency. This is odd because it’s the exact opposite of my narrative
essay. In the Global issues paper my weaknesses were organization, word choice
and conventions. Maybe this is because I could have gotten more and better
feedback from my peers regarding my paper. I did well in my ideas and voice
which is good because I normally lack a bit in my ideas.
Reading
through the comments on my papers you’ve mentioned several times when I need to
come and see you because you can tell that I’m not on the right track. The
times where I did come to see you, I got a better grade and understood more
than the times where I put it off to the side and did not come to see you. I
think that I will take this as a lesson to remind myself that whenever my
teacher says that she wants to see me, I should probley go to see her, just to
get clarification and advice on what I can improve in and the things that I
need to fix. I can also get help on the material that I do not understand. The way that I now evaluate my writing has
changed dramatically, I can now write different types of papers and have a
better understanding of why some punctuations are the way they are. I can grade
myself harder now because I know that I can write good it’s just a matter of
showing it.
