Graduation Speech : Correction Reflection

MLA format is something I have always kind of needed help with. Until this semester for some reason I could never really cite my sources that well. Its something I knew how to do, but when it came time to do it my mind went blank. When you went over everything on the bored that helped me so much (also because I took notes), but only because you told us to take them. With MLA format I learned that when quoting, if its more than three lines you have to use block quote. I didn’t know that till I got to this class.

In the book The Bedford Reader, published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, the authors lay out the importance of “Academic Writing”. To begin with, a clear thesis must be stated. The audience will be best engaged if the thesis has a hook. Second, the writer must provide evidence in order to back up the thesis. When evaluating multiple texts, both primary and secondary sources are useful. Next, it’s very import for the writer to synthesis the draft in their own words, this will prevent plagiarism. Finally, a great essay must always have a works cited page in MLA format. A simple recommendation is to keep notes of all works cited during the rough draft.

The paragraphs are also very choppy and need to be revised to flow much better.

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My comments continued to focus more on sentence structure and clarity rather than just formatting issues. In commenting to Staci, I presented suggestions, which were more precise, developed from my growth as a scholarly writer. I was now able to read more critically. I now searched for the intent of the writer. What did Staci really want to say became an important tool to use when analyzing the paper. “What do you mean here, did they rotate the room” (S. Davis, personal communication, June 2015) was evidence that I had become cognizant of the fact that reading critically improved writing. I was beginning to think as the writer would think rather than focusing on the article as a proofreader. Although, I had made great strides in becoming a better writer, I still missed several errors in Staci’s paper. One error concerning the use of italics was an error I previously missed in a prior review. At times the amount of knowledge needed to be a scholarly writer seems overwhelming, however I am determined to continue my

The topic sentence was much too long and would not grab the attention of the reader--it would not have for me anyways. It was three sentences so I compressed the sentence down. I also made sure to change the wording of the sentence after the attention grabber so that it was into two sentences. That would avoid confusion. The overall original paper was too complicated to read, so I mainly changed a majority of the complicated phrasing to simpler ones while making sure it kept to the purpose of the original paper. I also changed the first topic sentence in the first body paragraph because it had a citation and I made sure to make a clear topic sentence describing about the history of steroids and how it gained its recognition. Overall, this essay is meant to be more concise, compressed, and teach the readers to not have to hunt throughout my

Remarks were also made on subject- verb agreement, the use of verb tense and the use of article. Some of the common mistakes in my writing: I failed to put “s” at the end of subject or noun, I applied a singular verb for a plural subject, etc... I should have caught this mistakes during proofreading, but now I now I should take my time and read my entire paper meticulously to avoid such mistakes in the future. As for the work cited list, I did submit an edited essay with alphabetized work cited. Corrective measures will be considered in my next plan to correct my

Throughout my high school career, I have been exposed to many different elements of writing and, although some teachers have emphasized certain areas more than others, I feel I have come a long way as a writer. Despite this I also know I have much further to go. This fact became very clear to me as I was taking my previous course of English, Accelerated English Three. Within this course I was introduced to the MLA method of citation, I experienced disappointment due to receiving a lower grade than I had desired, and I discovered difficulties such as my impatient tendencies to look over errors and mistakes during the editing processes.

One ability that I wish I had room schedule-wise to enhance is refering to sources in MLA style. Through the course, I declined to look for assistance from my educator until week seven, one thing I lament doing. That could have mollified the apprehension and uncertainty I had about this course. Any inquiries I had could be cleared up as the course advanced. My articles through the resulting weeks have shown my quality and shortcomings. I don't have numerous qualities when it comes composing, yet despite everything I consider my most prominent quality in composing to be having the capacity to obviously comprehend the brief and answer it effectively, particularly with the logical expositions. I think this is simply in light of the fact that I invest a large portion of the rare energy close by just to consider the brief, for instance, when I was get ready for my explanatory investigation paper on globalization I altogether read both articles on globalization by both Kwame Anthony Appiah and Franklin Foer .A conspicuous battle I have as an essayist is association and moves. I have a tendency to bounce starting with one point then onto the next and some of the time undercover. I ought to have utilized more transitional words as a part of in the middle of sentences and sections to make my peruser comprehend the rationale of my paper. I have not had enough composition experience and the written work procedure is troublesome for me. I admit to the way that it takes me days to finish one task, yet it will be justified, despite all the trouble when I turn into a refined

Reading the feedback one of my teachers left on my first paper led me to realize one of my initial weaknesses, which was placement and usage of internal citations. One mistake I was made aware of is that multiple times in the paper I did not condense my internal citations, I placed them in multiple areas in one paragraph. Additionally, at times I stretched information from a single source over a large paragraph. In my teacher’s comments, she encouraged me to instead “work to integrate sources fully to strengthen support for your main ideas.” On the other hand, some of my strengths in research writing were made clear to me in this paper as

Currently sophomores at North Quincy High School, the Passion Project was first introduced to us in Mrs. Casimiro’s 10A English class. While we knew each other before the project, we were only acquaintances, and exchange between us was not frequent until this school year. Since heaps of our classes are the same, we became further acquainted. Each of us loved eating sweets, so culling desserts for this project was best for us.

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Conclusion section is also an example of weak writing and abrupt ending. In my opinion, this article lacks good writing, strong facts, graphs and

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English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.