A Meta-Analysis is defined as being a quantitative statistical analysis of several separate but similar experiments or studies in order to test the pooled data for statistical significance. In this Creative Writing Meta-Analysis Essay, I will identify the strengths and weaknesses of my writing portfolio, what I have learned from our reading, workshops, lectures, and visiting artists. All of these various components together have aided in my representation of what it is to be a creative writer. In preparation for each upcoming class students had required readings assigned as homework to be discussed in the next class time. Throughout this course’s timeframe we have had to read examples of poetry, fiction short stories, and essays. Even though each reading …show more content…
The strengths that I discovered that I did well in my creative writing were having a clear voice, opened strong which hooked the reader’s attention, very detailed, good imagery, good climax, reflection, and suspense. My strongpoint out of each of my three literary works for my portfolio I feel would have to be my freelance poetry’s because of the rawness of poems and I have more background and poetry. My weaknesses in my portfolio were that I was sometimes too detailed, such as when I spent so much time describing fashion labels in my fiction short story, I feel that this error to spend so much detail came from my background with having former internships for fashion companies where I did fashion blogging and product descriptions, however I see that in fiction it is not needed. I learned that the details that I give in my writing must be relevant to what is going on, I had some structural and style problems, I failed to indent in my dialogues, and there were some grammar mistakes. Overall I feel as though each flaw that I had initially in my writing was fixed for the final draft because I took in what Professor Powell and my classmates instructed me to improve
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This portfolio reflects my time in College English. Included in my portfolio is a sample of my journal entries and reflections about them. Also included is a reflection of the class as a whole. This course granted college credit to the students who passed. The work consisted of papers, essays, and discussion questions. The five required papers includes a memoir, profile, extended definition, analysis, and argument. Before each paper was assigned, the class would read a few sample essays to get an understanding of how each type of paper should be written. Following the sample essays, the class would answer discussion questions. Then, before the paper was assigned, a shorter essay would be assigned for students to practice before writing the
partially due to the fact that I rarely left my house, but mainly because I spent my freshman and sophomore, and half of my junior year buried under cooking books in the school library during lunch instead of socializing with my peers—Ice queen, they called me.
Throughout the years in middle school and high school I 've had to write many essays. Every time I walked into class and on the board it said "Essay" the anxiety attacked. Writing essays was never my favorite thing to do and im pretty sure many people feel the same way. My last teacher said he liked the creativity I had in my writing the only thing missing was knowing how to writing correctly. No writer is born knowing how to write perfectly they all had to learn and that’s what I 'm doing except what they learned stuck to them. The obvious strength I have in writing is that it isn 't math. But being serious now two good strengths in writing that I have are creativity and the energy to want to write. The one weakness that hopefully is common is that I just don’t know how to put all of this together. My strengths and weaknesses make want to become a better writer hopefully this class will help. I 've never been a good writer but then again not everyone is, my strengths push me and weaknesses pull me back but only with practice and help will the weaknesses be vanished.
Every person has their own unique way of writing which makes their writing stand out among the other people’s writing. Weather a person’s writing is full of high leveled vocabulary to a person use of complex sentences. Throughout the semester I had many times where I felt that my writing was weak at certain points or at times where my writing skills to started to improve. The major assignments and the short answer responses helped improve my skills as a writer. Even though all three major assignments helped improved my writing skills, the one that had the most effect in my writing was the report essay as it helped discover new methods while also the short answer response number 4 helped me to analysis images in an aspect that I did not know before.
The Story begins on a beach with three young children playing. Violet, 14, inventor; Klaus, 12, amateur researcher; and Sunny, baby, professional biter who has not totally developed speech. When they arrive to the beach it is a cloudy foggy overcast day. Violet is spending her time here skipping rocks, Klaus is studying tide pools and Sunny is just enjoying her time being at the beach with her older siblings. Even though it is not the greatest day in the world, the children are enjoying their time spent here at their favorite place. No other people are here on beach and this gives the children a place to be alone with their imagination. While playing a gentleman is approaching, but with the fog it scares the children because they cannot see who walks beneath the fog. As the figure gets closer they start to figure out who it is. The strange figure that lurked in the fog is Mr. Poe a friend of the family. Mr. Poe comes over to the children playing and explains to the children that their parents have perished in a fire that destroyed their home. Mr. Poe explains to the children that they will have to live with his family temporarily until he can figure out a plan as to where they will go.
My strengths as a writer are that my papers are very well developed, they have always been graded and ranged from a high B to an A. I always meet the requirement, but I don't add as much detail as I should. I have a good style and organization. I always make sure to keep my papers in order. All of my papers have spelling errors but is not bad enough for the reader to get confused while reading. Readers can easily follow my papers with no struggles. I use a variety of simple and complex sentences to structure my papers. I do get quite a few comma splices, but never to many run-on sentences or fragments in my paper. My papers do have a good word choice that include imagery and figurative language. I don't use super strong verbs in my papers and I also have grammatical errors in my papers as well.
As writers, we all have different strengths, weaknesses, and goals. As a writer my lists of strengths, weaknesses, and goals will never end; however, I hope that with time and practice my strengths will outweigh my weaknesses and I will not stop trying to achieve my goals.
My strengths were taught during my Composition 1 class this year. I learned how to unify paragraphs like a professional. Unifying and developing paragraphs has always been a struggle for years; therefore, I have overcome that weakness and is now considered a
my strengths I count on my sincerity and straightforwardness in my writing. I prefer to keep my
In today’s fast growing social media world, the quality and skills of an education such as writing are in need of a drastic positive change. A 2011 nationwide test found that nearly twenty four percent of students in eighth grade and twelfth grade were proficient in writing and only three were advanced in writing skills. If that’s not scary, the world’s leading social media empire Facebook is the world’s largest news source. Writing happens in everyday activity, whenever it is writing a grocery list or texting a friend. It is essential that every individual possess and learns superior writing skills to be successful in life.
My portfolio exemplifies the progressively better understanding of informative writing that I formed throughout the year. With each essay and instruction that went along with it, my comprehension of how to compose and informative essay steadily improved. The essay portions of my portfolio show clearly the improvement of my informative essay writing as I believe the quality of the writing itself improved in each essay, which is also reflected in the increase in my grade with each paper. This shows that my understanding of how to write well and interpret other informative essays changed and improved as the year went on. In this essay I will explain how my strengths and weaknesses slowly changed by reflecting on a skill difference in each essay,
Writing is a vital part of life. Before the creation of written language human communication was limited to verbal, in-person conversations. Everything changed when writing allowed thoughts and ideas to travel farther and more efficient than ever before. Writing is a talent that we learn at an early age and only hone as we proceed through our academic careers. This being the case, as with any talent every writer has strengths and weaknesses. My personal writing strengths include an adept use of vocabulary and apt understanding of grammatical techniques. In contrast, my weaknesses consist of flaws in organization and staying focused on one thesis throughout a piece. Although numbers are the main focus as a business major, without the ability
My greatest strength lies in my ability to communicate effectively through my writing skills. As a freshman, I entered college certain that I wanted to be an English major because of my love of literature. I had a rather romantic picture in my mind as to what my studies would include: late nights relaxing with a cup of tea and a Virginia Woolf novel. Though my courses did offer me the opportunity to read many fabulous works of literature, they also challenged my analytical skills far more than I ever imagined. Most of the late nights I spent were not with a cup of tea, but in the library researching critical theory or at my computer, devising my own critical perspective on a novel. Though my course of study was in reality far different from what I imagined as an eighteen-year-old, I soon learned that the sense of satisfaction I gained from critical thinking and writing far outweighed the guilty pleasures of reading. Thus, in my junior and senior years, I have learned to use my love of literature to enhance my practical writing skills, further my own knowledge, and help those in need.
Nowadays kids face many problems in their lives, and one of the main problems is having a little amount of creativity in their work which deduces many points when it gets graded. Eventually, teachers start to get uninterested from reading dry and uninventive essays. This affects students’ curriculum because it makes the students think they are not good at creative writing. These type of students will usually start to get frustrated at themselves for not being good enough in the creative department. Which in turn makes them believe that they have no chance of doing well in school. This ends up ruining those children 's mindset that they have for writing their essays and writing in general. This issue can ruin these students’ grades more than