Writing Reflection

                                                  Yearly writing Analysis

            Looking back at the writing I have done this year I can unquestionably say there has been a lot of improvement and growth in myself as a writer. At the beginning of the year I wasn’t very confident in myself as a writer and I had trouble getting my ideas across in my writing. I have learned so many different types of writing there are like our profiles, and our literary analysis’. The varieties of writing we have done this year has definitely made me have to really focus and try to modify my writing.  A huge part of my trouble was working and incorporating all of the literary elements and trying to do that correctly and well.  As the year progressed I noticed it began to come much easier for me to incorporate these aspects of writing and doing much better quality work.

            At the beginning of the year my main problem was organization and making my point clear. One of my biggest struggles was while writing the Profile, and the Rhetorical Situation. Looking back on the writing I have done in the past I noticed how I could fix the mistakes that I had made. I observed in the reviews I got people were not very sure what preciously I was trying to say in my writing; things were unclear. Another thing I’ve noticed in my previous reviews was I would have a strong opening but as the paper would go on the writing would wither away and become uninteresting. Along with the other trouble’s I was having in my writing my reviews mostly consisted of the same things. As far as my editing goes I think my papers would have benefited from more revisions and feedback. Numerous mistakes I made in my papers towards the beginning of the year were largely problems that were easy to fix and was just carless mistakes.

            I also made many improvements since the beginning of the year, one of which was being more descriptive. I became more aware of how giving vivid description creates imagery for the reader and how much more my papers would gain from including this in my writing.  One of my extensive problems was sentence fluency, to which I have made a vast improvement on. Just by reading my papers you could tell the sentences didn’t always flow together and they were a bit choppy. I’m glad I was able to see and use the criticism my papers received because it made me realize what I needed to fix and how simple it would be to just try to pay more attention to my weaknesses while writing.

            I knew a great deal of my strengths and weaknesses when we began writing, Many of the people who revised my papers agreed with what I thought I could improve on. I also got criticism on things I had not realized I was having trouble with, so I also learned what I never noticed needed improvement. I agreed with almost all of the feedback I was getting this year and I tried to change whatever I agreed was wrong with the paper as long as it wouldn’t change my writing drastically. A good example of this for myself was the Literary Analysis; I don’t think I included enough of the revisions I had been given which really could have improved my paper. After reviewing all of the comments I received, I tried to make the revisions I was given and I attempted to focus on what I knew were usually my main problems. I zoned in on fixing the main problems in my paper then I looked more closely at the smaller more detailed mistakes I was making.

            Some of my more recent papers show that I have altered the mistakes I was previously making but at the same time it also shows new things I need to begin to focus on. One of my main problems was with citation and still a bit of organization. I have improved in my research and how I present my ideas on the paper because I have focused more closely on that. My sentence fluency has been better and I think if you compared my writing from a few months ago to now you would see how much improvement has been made. 

            Based off the feedback I have received this year I now know what I need to mainly focus on and what to look out for. I also now know what some of my strengths in writing are like ideas, and research so I now know to incorporate those as much as possible in my writing. This next year I am going to spend much more time on my writing. I’m going to spend more time working on my rough draft so that once it is revised I will have a pretty good paper to work with. Lastly, one of my main goals is to continue to work of organization because I have had trouble with that this year. I think that if I am to continue working on these writing techniques I will become a much better quality writer and do better work.

           

Common Errors list:

-       Comma splices

-       Organization

o   Putting all of my ideas on  a topic into my writing in an orderly, sensible way.

-       Citations

-       Grammatical errors