Before this class started I considered myself to be an average writer who has good ideas but has a tough time connecting these ideas. My thoughts were able to create good topics and discussions in my papers, but I couldn't successfully put them in correct order and reasoning giving most of my papers poor structure. As I wrote more papers and learned new tricks, I saw my writing skills improve. The summary paper was the best grade I received on all of the papers this year. My thesis for it was average making the paper not have a strong get off point. This paper was focused on being able to shortly summarize an article and be able to pick out the important ideas and thoughts of the author which I excelled at. My grammar and attributive tags were well used throughout the paper as I was able to give the author credit for his words. The summary was …show more content…
This paper had a very strong summary from the experience I had writing one earlier in the year. My paper contained parts from the article that helped me get my ideas across and connect to the overall thesis. My work cited for the article was wrong as I didn't check to see that it had the right article title in it. The word choice was a problem during this paper as I used bland words and repeated words in key parts of the paper. For the comparative critique paper it was about connecting two articles and see how the are similar and different. This required a lot of connecting ideas which I struggled with. I was able to connect the two articles slightly but not great enough to where I could see the articles both connect to my thesis. I felt as if I did a great job analyzing each article individually reading in between the lines of the articles due to the past experience from writing the critique paper. I found different ways to build off of what they authors were saying allowing my thoughts to
I would then go into more depth about the differences and similarities in the essay. Although I could identify the concepts from the articles I wanted to talk about, I had trouble developing a thesis that would ask the next question.
As I look back into my high school years, I thought I wrote papers well. But then coming into a college environment, my papers were mediocre. By overlooking at my past papers, I found that they were unorganized, sloppy and had bad use of diction. From now on, I will use the tools I learned in English 1100-40 as a foundation for the future papers I intend on writing in college. Following the criteria of organizing ideas so that they flow, impacting the reader with diction and also by being creative, will help become an ideal writer. Following the criteria of staying motivated in short and long term goals, taking responsibility for actions and finally the ability to study well will help me develop into a supreme student.
YOUR PAPER WAS EXCELLENT. YOU BEGAN VERY STRONG, BUT THE PAPER STARTED TO GET A LITTLE TOO OPINONATED TOWARDS THE END. YOU MIGHT WANT TO HAVE A CLEARER CONCLUSION NEXT TIME. DO NOT USE CONTRACTIONS IN YOUR PAPERS. OVERALL GREAT!
Throughout this course, we had multiple assignments that were aimed at improving us as writers. I am sure that everyone took something different from this course, and I am sure that each student took more from some areas than others; however for me there were three major things that I saw that I benefited from most. Our weekly craft lessons, grammar plan, but most of all, observational learning. Our weekly craft lessons have introduced us to multiple writing strategies. These strategies have helped turn my papers from elementary papers that were written below my expected grade level to papers more on par with my peers.
I came into this class under the impression that I already wrote well enough and wouldn’t need to improve. However, as I progressed through the semester I learned that there is always room to grow. The first paper I produced was not at the level I was hoping but after I actively decided to improve my writing my papers became much better. Looking back on my work in the class I wonder how much my writing has changed and where I still have room to improve. Without evaluating my work I can’t hope to become any better. Through this class I have grown much as a writer but there is still more I can learn.
Throughout my essay I tried to not summarize the article and I feel like I was successful at not summarizing and instead analyzing.
Mary Kate Lambert “No title was given”. Mary Kate’s paper was unfinished, however, she did provide a good topic sentence for the introduction paragraph. In the second paragraph she needs a much stronger topic sentence. Also, there were grammar errors such as incomplete sentences, capitalization errors, word usage errors, and to be verbs. Overall, I think that she is off to a good start and that her final paper would be better if she includes these suggestions.
Your paper could have been stronger if you had used quotes to back up your ideas.
This is my reflection letter on the process of writing the analysis paper on ”Why Are There Still So Many Confederate Monument” written by Georgi Boorman. When I was writing my analysis paper it was kind of hard to do. It took me a minute to find a good thesis statement and claims to support my thesis.There were some hard and easy points to point out in the article. For some time now I was a sort of confused on how to do the four layer cake. First, explain my claim and reasons. Second, show evidence that supports my claim. Third, state whether if I agree or disagree with the article claim. Lastly, I needed to support my reasoning. For my first analysis paper, I would congratulate myself for doing a good job.
In the past three months I feel like I have accomplished a great deal. As the semester comes to an end I find myself reflecting not only how I have survived the first semester but also what I have learned. The most important thing I have learned so far is how to become a better writer. I did not think it could really happen to me. I did not think I could handle all the work. I did not think I could actually become a better writer. Some how after all the hours of writing, and putting effort into the papers that I wrote this semester, I became a better writer. I did this because I concentrated on two very important areas, with the attitude of, if I could just become better in those then I would become a better writer. With help from an awesome teacher and a reliable tutor I have become a better writer by improving my skills in the areas of procrastination and content.
Overall, your paper was well organized. You state your points in your thesis statement and you stick to them within your paper.
Becker, Margraf, Rinck, and Roth wrote one of the articles that I found, the emotional Stroop effect in anxiety disorders: General emotionality or disorder specificity? The main idea of the research study is to understand cognitive attention predispositions by demonstrating Stroop task with anxiety participants. Stroop task were repeatedly uses on patients that have anxiety or other disorders such as panic, obsessive-compulsive, social phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorders. Their study is an expansion of other studies that involve Stroop tasks and anxiety patients. This study is very important because it will explain more about why the reaction time is slower or different with specific incongruent threatening words for anxiety or other disorder that patients may have.
In spite of the fact my thesis was strong, there was a comma splice so it needed restructured. My paper also lacked strong transitions that would help keep readers engaged in the reading. Another error in my research paper was the use of second person. Second person should only be used in research papers if it is in the form of a question which is also a good way to keep readers engaged. The last mistake that occurred several times in my paper was the format of in text citations.
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class, I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work to see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded.
The previous method was not as detail oriented as it should have been. Although the main points were supported, there was not enough specificity to the piece of work that I was analyzing. This led to a lack of true support for the conclusion about that piece. This time, however, I was careful to not make a statement without showing some specific point on the website that showed the reason for that statement. With the added details and examples, it was easier to connect the concepts of how a writing sample should be for maximum accessibility to the specific site that was chosen. I could basically write straight from the outline. Knowing what exactly needed to go with each section made the organization of the paper more natural. This more detailed outline is another trend that I will continue to use as it can make the entire process of writing and organizing the paper