Peer Feedback: Vignette, And Twelfth Night

One thing I really liked about my writing class this year was the fact that Professor Olufs had the class read each other’s essays. I think that was a huge step for me because I was always embarrassed by how I wrote my essays. But through this process of writing, it had taught me that it is very important to have your peers or your instructor to revise your essay before you turn it in. It honestly made a huge improvement in my writing because it is a great way to see what they think about your essay. Sometimes they can offer some good ideas on how to improve. Since it’s from a different perspective they are easily able to point my mistakes. Having someone revise your essay is a great technique to do even if you revised it yourself. For instance, in my essay #4 which was about on “how do you learn a new skill relating it to tai chi” I revised it so many times before I

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

I was pushed constantly to work harder at my writing. I studied and practiced several new techniques and methods for prewriting and organizing the essays I found so hard to create. At first, I had quite a few bad days and quite a few subpar essays. My grades would vary greatly from paper to paper. This really scared me, as I hoped to keep myself from drastically dropping in my grades. Yet, I wanted to maintain my grade point average so I had no choice but to succeed and impress around every corner. I began to pour in, even more, work and apply all of the newly learned skills from that class into my mind. I hoped that soon I would be able to find a system for writing that helped me form proper

My writing is like getting to the center of a tootsie-pop, it takes a good amount of licks but once you’re there it's the best. The reason I say it’s like trying to get to the center of a tootsie-pop is because throughout this class I have noticed my writing progressively getting better with each essay I write. With every lick I get closer and closer to the center of the tootsie-pop, as with every paper I get closer and closer to the best part of my writing. From the one pager we wrote as our first paper, to the comparison contrast paper we wrote as the last paper of this semester, as I look back at them it doesn’t look like the same writer two totally different authors and one is the tootsie in the center of the tootsie-pop.

Throughout this semester we have had to write many types of essays. Although this is a college English class there is still room for improvement. I made much improvement during the semester of the class. I was able to identify my weaknesses. I learned how to make improvements to the areas I was having problems in. Although each essay we did was different I was able to begin with one essay and throughout the semester turn it into two other essays. I was able to change my style of writing to fit the type of audience I was working with. I will continue to work on my writing and keep improving it.

Lastly, self-evaluation is a key component to writing an effective essay. Even though I was able to have student feedback for my essays; self-evaluation is important for me to be able to determine my strengths and weaknesses in my writing. After composing each essay I was required to compose a self-evaluation. The evaluations describe what I consider the strong points in the essay, and were I felt I still needed to

During this semester in English 107, I have progressed more as a writer. Before I went to University of Arizona, my writing was rigid. I wrote five-paragraph TOEFL style essay all the time in my high school life. After I attended in English 107, I was not confident about my writing skill. Throughout these three projects we have done, I become more and more confident about my writing skill than before. The Student Learning Outcomes also helped me to grow as a writer a lot. In these goals, I did well on several of them, but I still need to work on the other goals.

Initially my writing lacked structure and a controlling purpose which caused my ideas to be incoherent and hard for the reader to understand. These difficulties could be attributed to the fact that I am an art student plagued with the disorganization and non-verbal method of an artist’s brain. Being this way, interpreting and conveying my thoughts accurately and eloquently into the assigned writings was fairly tough. However, during the course of English 101 I was able to identify my weaknesses through the aid of writing communities such as peer review sessions and conferences with my professor. With the help from these resources and the writing process I learned to better organize my essays and maintain a controlling purpose in order to help my audience

My writing essays represent a timeline of improvement , from my first essay to my last essay I’ve noticed my growth as a writer. It was not until later on the semester that I realized that I lacked substantial academic vocabulary and had ongoing run on sentences, grammatical errors. My word choice was really repetitive with the constant use certain words. I have progressed where I have expanded my ability to use clear description and make my technical information clear. For example when writing essay 2 and 3 having to insert figures helped me portray my argument much more clearly. When addressing the figures in my writing they had become much more clear. Considering our class revolved around technological developments of the future it was very

It is pleasing to see my literary skills improve over the year. The stark contrast between my first essay about Speak and my last essay on To Kill a Mockingbird is excellent. Here are the areas where my last essay was superior to my first. I improved in organization and clarity. In the final essay, I was able to make an introduction that grabbed the reader's attention and provided context for the essay as well as a conclusion that left an impression on the reader in addition to an elegant and logical overall organization. Another area I improved in was command of paragraph structure. I wrote four paragraphs that effectively included all of the elements of a point, introduction, quote and a two-part analysis to create one unified point. I provided

My name is Yris Guzman and I’m a senior at Perry High School. I’ve always struggled writing essays. The things I struggle the most with is grammar, spelling, coming up with a thesis, and organizing my thoughts onto paper. I hope by the end of this semester I become a better writer. We all have strengths and weaknesses.

In my essay, I should have used supporting details instead of repeating the same sentence in different words. I also should have eliminated the empty words I used and replaced them with words that had stronger meaning. Lastly,

When I went back and re-read my essay I still thought it was well written but I realized how many thing I could have added. During the course of this year, I believe that my writing has significantly improved, especially my grammar and vocabulary in my writing. Some of my weaknesses as a writer are conveying the message the prompt asks about in the whole essay because sometimes my essays tend t go a bit off topic along the

When I was reviewing other people assignments I learned numerous ways to write or how not to write an essay. The best essay that I peer edit was mostly because they knew how to elaborate on details without writing a run-on sentence. There were essays that struggled to explain what the story was about, but punctuation and high vocabulary made the narrative more entertaining. Last but not least, the writer of the piece needs to know on how to keep the reader involve without overwhelming the reader.

A major area for development and improvement revolves around effective note taking and essay planning/writing. As a Higher Education student you will be required to plan and produce countless essays in relation to the course you are studying, and a key point of reference to help with this would come from “The Guide to Learning and Study Skills for Higher Education and at Work” who give the following advice and tips: ‘Identify the purpose of the essay and who the audience (reader) is and what is required for both – structure your work and develop your arguments/main points – proof read your work and improve language, spelling, punctuation, grammar and style – review what you did and use feedback to improve your essay writing for the future’ (Bingham, R. and Drew, S. 2012 The guide to learning and study skills: For higher Education and at work).