Writing Wrap Up

            Since the beginning of the year, I think my ideas in my writing have improved for the most part. Not only that, but my word choice and sentence structure has as well. With my word choice, I’m not repeating the same words, and I’m using more descriptive words in my writing. My ideas in my paper have improved. They have progressively become more developed with each paper I write.

At the same time, my ideas could use improvement by intertwining my ideas in my papers instead of stating it at the end of the essay.  I could work on improving my organization and support. My papers seem to have some of the information out of order, making it confusing to read, with little support along with it.

The feedback was mostly accurate for what I knew about my writing. I knew my papers hadn’t always strived when it came to organization. It seems when I want to add something, I don’t know exactly where to put it, and end up putting it where it makes the essay confusing. The feedback that I didn’t think was very accurate was about conventions. I had always thought that was what was strongest in my papers.

            In the literacy narrative essay, I thought the conventions would be the strongest, when it turns out it was one of the weakest, along with my organization. Dr. D commented, “This paper does not show a lot of attention to organization.” Looking back at my paper, I realize all the mistakes and how she was right. It made me think about improvements I needed to make in future papers.

            My poor organization skills had also seemed to come up in my Profile paper. In this paper, my ideas weren’t so strong.  She told me, “You went from not having meaning to having hidden meaning that is revealed at the end.” After this, my ideas had started to improve, but she pointed out that I needed to work on it a little bit.

            In my literary analysis, I noticed my organization still hadn’t changed, which did frustrate me for quite some time. My word choice had not improved here either. In this paper, I also got the tense of the paper wrong. I wrote it in past tense, instead of literary present tense. My voice in the paper had been very informal. I wasn’t supposed to use contractions, but did anyway.

            In my Global Issues Paper. My organization skills had improved very little. But it’s a step up. The order and transitions was stronger than my source integration. Like Dr. D said, “Work particularly on integrating sources.”

Common Errors list:

1.     Pronoun/antecedent agreement

o   Ex: As she was passing them out, she would say our name.

A pronoun and an antecedent must match in number. Instead of “name” it should say “names.”

2.     Improper semicolon use

o   Ex: I had already done the flip; it was too late.

Instead of the colon, I could’ve used a comma.

3.     Improper tense

o   In my literary analysis, the whole paper is in the wrong tense.

4.     Informal language

o   Ex: It’s the reason everything in the story happened.

Instead of using “it’s” use the more formal “it is”

5.     Weak paragraph transitions

o   Ex: In an empty lot, it’s easy to spot an object just laying there, especially a gun.

After a paragraph, it should have a stronger to introduce a new paragraph.