This years writing reflection

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.