My overall paper!

           While reviewing my WrAP I have noticed I didn’t do as good I would of liked to at all.  The topic was should downloading music illegally be allowed or not, explain your answer?  So while answering that I said it was bad and good at the same time but you shouldn’t do it because it takes away from the artist and that’s there work and they deserve the credit.  My scores on the WrAP were not that high, they averaged around 4’s.  I plan on improving my WrAP score a lot next year and I will make it a lot stronger.

My first writing of the year was my Literacy Narrative Essay.  I was very proud of this writing especially because it was the first time I had ever written a literacy narrative.  I was also proud that I got a 94 on it, which is an A! My strong suit in this paper was with my ideas and organization, with voice and conventions following right behind that.  Sentence Fluency and Word Choice are what I got 8.5’s on and when I go back through the story I can see that I used to many exclamation points and sometimes my tone of voice wasn’t the best.  Overall I was really pleased with this paper and the overall comment you left me made me really happy!

The next paper that I had to write was the Profile Draft.  When I was given the choice to write about a person or place I automatically chose to write about My Lake House.  I was excited to write about this paper because I really love that place and I have infinite things to say about it!  When I turned in this paper on turnitin.com I realized that I accidently turned in my first draft and I was so upset that my final work wasn’t what was getting graded, but still with that being  my first draft I got a B.  To me a B is a good but I think if I would have worked a little harder and made it better I could have got an A.  The thing that I liked best about this paper was that I added some pictures in it so making the representation of what I was trying to say that much more real.  In all of the categories of writing I received an A except in Convections.  When I saw that I got a C in convections I went and looked back in the paper and realized that I needed to use way more commas and I should have added some semicolons to separate my run on sentences. 

One of the options that we were given was to write an optional Profile Revision.  Looking back on all of my work I see now that I really wish I would of wrote a revision of my profile.  It was really nice of you to write to offer for us to get the extra points to rewrite our papers and I wish I would of taken that opportunity.

The next paper that we were assigned to write was the Literary Analysis paper.  I had a very hard time writing this paper, but the process made it a lot easier.  At first I wanted to write my paper on a story by Edgar Allen Poe, but after further reviewing the story I realized that it wouldn’t have been the best choice.  So instead of writing the paper on that I went with another story called Stilettos.  With this story I analyzed the characters and tried to retell the story is a different way.  In every single category I received a C and I am not sure why I got that.  My overall grade on this story was a 79 and I wish I would of tried a lot harder on this paper.

The last paper that I had to write was the Global Issues paper.  This was probably the most fun paper to write because you got to write about anything you wanted.  I chose to write about the Strait of Hormuz because that is what interested me the most at the time and it was a good topic to research and learn a lot about.  The grade I got on this wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, but after reading the comment I realize that my ideas were not in order and that I needed to take some of the information out. 

            An overall analysis of all of my papers showed that my average word was a B.  The topic that I always did the best in was Ideas and Voice.  In all of my papers I received comments saying how strong and great my ideas were.  My topic that I usually score the lowest in was Convections, which actually makes since for my writing.  Usually I get confused where I need to put my commas in a sentence. Over the year what I have improved in most was my Word Choice.  I started using better descriptive words to make the paper sound better.

Over the course of the year, my writing has progressively gotten worse.  That was shocking to me when I realized that because I thought that I had become a better writer over the year.  Next year my goal for writing is going to be that I will make sure to write at least 3 drafts per paper and I want at least 2 people to peer edit it.  My writing usually sounds good to me but when other people read it they have positive feedback and help me change it in a good way.  Next year I plan on working a lot harder on my papers because I really want to improve in my writing.