The Little Red Hen

Progress is an interesting thing. It can either be good or bad. It’s always there whether it’s visible it or not. But Frederick Douglass summed up progress flawlessly: “without a struggle, there can be no progress”. Throughout eighth grade I have made significant progress in my writing. Although the path had bumps and potholes, I would not miss it for the world. In eighth grade one of my main progressions is shown through my citations. In the first essay I wrote, my literacy essay, citations ceased to exist. There were no quotes around the title of the short story, “The Little Red Hen”. Furthermore the novel Red Queen was not underlined or italicized; it was as if the novel went poof! Similarly, in my first OEQ I did not quote the text correctly, which is shown through the punctuation. “ ‘Greaser was almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped up

I did not use an outline when I was writing my argumentative essay and everything went to chaos. In the process of trying to fix the chaos, I learned how useful an outline is and how it's perfect for my style of writing. In the past, I never used outlines because I thought they were wasting my time. Now I know it was just because I was not using them correctly. The journey of me using outlines is a process. The outline I first used in my literary essay was the wrong format, so I had to redo my paragraphs and reorganize them. Nevertheless I used another outline to do that. Still, my literary essay made me comfortable with making and using outlines. I could see all my million ideas in one place and was able to pick and choose them by how I needed. My outlines help me control my explanations and make sure I do not write a seven page essay. Cause at the end of the day, there will always be a part of me that wants to write