My Reflecting On My Writing Skills

When I first started this course I didn’t know what to expect. I really enjoyed writing but there was a lot of areas that I needed to work on. When I first started to review the modules I was blown away by all the helpful sites that were at my disposition. The Power points and different sites completely changed my whole perspective of writing to a whole new dimension. Thanks to the modules I am more confident right now before I even begin an essay. I remember in the past how beginning an essay was so difficult for me because I didn’t know how to even start. In this course I have learned how to begin an essay, how to manipulate information, and how to use in-text documentation properly. These are just some of the few things that I will definitely be taking with me in the future for my courses and personal growth.

This course has helped me with my inquiry and analyzing skills when working with literary work. When reading I would ask superficial questions: “Why did that happen?”, “Why are the curtain blue?”, “What

1. READING OUTCOME: COMPREHENSION PROCESS WORK: Demonstrate your understanding of the novel by answering the following questions in your journal. Where possible support your ideas with references from the text. Include page numbers for future use.

My writing skills have fluctuated throughout the semester. I feel, although, I have mastered leads and headline writing. Leads and headlines were the first writing skills we practiced and have continued to practice throughout the entire semester. The continuous practice of leads and headline writing throughout the semester, I feel confident in my ability to write concise, eye-catching leads and headlines. For writing assignment three I needed to provide a follow-up headline and corresponding lead for a criminal case. The headline had to focus on the upcoming sentencing hearing because it was the newest information about the case. In order to do so, as I mention in my blog entry, I had to write several drafts for both my headline and lead. [INSERT BLOG PICTURE] After many drafts of the lead I settled on a summary-lead because the article was a follow-up story about an established criminal case. I wrote the headline after I wrote the lead because the headline had to be a shorter, more intriguing version of the lead. After many drafts I finally wrote a six worded, eye-catching headline that was about the sentencing hearing. [INSERT WRITING ASSIGNMENT

5. What is not a part of your paper that you think might help a reader understand or appreciate it more? What did you not put in?

all of these tasks. Your end result will be a well-researched and articulate essay on one of the three topics about which you have read in this module.

Personally I thought this chapter was a headache. I constantly had to read a page and then reread it. A lot of this information I have head from previous psychology classes, but just reading it was harder to understand rather than having an instructor teach it. I pretty much highlighted the whole book because I thought it was all-important.

The 02.10 Discussion-Based Assessment was held on Wednesday, November 15, from 11:00am-11:15am. During this meeting, Mr. Moore and I talked about the final. Though this was the last DBA of the semester for English II Honors, I should schedule a meeting to discuss the final and how to prepare for it. The English final consists of two parts including multiple choice and free response questions, but both need to be taken in the same two-hour time block. To take the final, I will need to complete the module two exam, preferably before the due date to prepare for the final. Mr. Moore advised to start studying when December starts.

    To begin, the reading selection was a great piece for me to help recall all the past knowledge I have on writing. Throughout the years I have taken multiple English and writing courses that have exemplified most of what corresponded with the book. However,

I am confused once again, my understanding of Part B was to analyse the key themes in the readings package and then compare and contrast how well this aligns with practice as discussed by our interviewee and then Part C was to propose reasons for the similarities and differences and then discuss the implications and put forward recommendations.

As we were discussing last week, the section 2 would be literature review, while the section 3 will be mathematic methodology. For literature review, I believe you have already know a lot of them, so could you just check if I have anything missing? For methodology part, I hope I explain it simple enough to understand. If you feel it somehow confusing or unclear, please let me know.

My writing skills which I have worked on over the few months I have been in English 102 have changed quite a bit in my opinion. There are many things which I have improved upon that were amongst my weaker writing skills when the year began. On the opposite side of that point, there are also many things which I still need to improve upon if I want to truly elevate my writing to a level that I will be confident in. Finally, I have gained new skills outside of writing from this class, particularly the activities which we did in class at various points throughout the year. These things all cumulate together to give me an appreciation of English courses which I did not previously have.

The process of writing the paper was pretty similar I just made sure to refer back to the book to try to properly implement as many of the types of figurative language as possible. One example that I enjoyed myself was

In module 1, I learned ways that helped me come up with ideas to develop the main question I intended to answer in my paper: Are we sure enough about the alleged anthropogenic cause of climate change to embrace the uncertainties of geoengineering? In module 2, I learned how to find credible and relevant sources that had the information I needed. The process was very intimidating at first, but now I can find sources to use in my papers for making a strong, persuasive argument. The first major milestone of the course came in Module 3, the annotated bibliography, which was key in the beginning to a strong paper and my understanding the research process. I learned how to properly document my sources, and basically ended up with the foundation of my paper. I thought I wouldn’t be able to get this part right, but I was pleasantly surprised. The

My writing skills are decent, if I take the time to fully process my thoughts. When it is a timed assignment or test, my skills go right out the window, I concentrate more on answering the prompt rather than the grammar, punctuation, or structure. It’s like a jumbled mess of writing filled with lots of errors. When I’m writing my main goals are to answer the prompt, have good structure, and no grammatical or punctuation errors. These goals sometimes get in the way of me expressing myself freely; if a sentence doesn’t flow right with rest of the paragraph, I will re-examine my paragraph or paper to see if I can conjure up a sentence to finish out my paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph. Another example is if I feel like I don’t