Writing Wrap-Up

Throughout the school year our English class has written a couple of big essays and the WrAP test with it’s dull writing prompts. And throughout the year my writing has gotten better, yet in some spots I’ve begun to lack. The subjects to write about, to me, have become harder and harder to form many ideas and to support them. You could day in some way I have become lazy with coming up with strong ideas to write about.

                The first paper that our class was the Literacy Narrative, were I wrote about a book that changed my outlook on reading. I mad a 90/100 on this paper which I found rewarding. Ideas, voice, and word choice received 9.5’s, and 8.5’s on organization, sentence fluency, and conventions. I was also suggested to revise the awkward wording section in the paper, and to make the first sentence more of a hook to catch the reader’s eye.

                 The second essay was a Profile was I wrote about a café, this was my favorite essay I wrote overall his year. However, I received the same type of score on organization, sentence fluency, and conventions bringing in a solid B, and ideas and voice as A’s. While writing I wasn’t sure how to fix the errors that gave me B’s. Overall on the paper I got a 31/35.

                The Literacy Analysis was enjoyable for me to write about. I like the story that I was analyzing. My thesis got an A, but the support for it acquired a B. the Lowest technique grade was organization, I suppose it was because I was focusing on the thesis and how to support it more than anything so I lost sight of how the support was organized to create a clearer pattern. The paper turned out to be a 87/100, which is a good grade. The biggest problems that needed to be fixed were to support the thesis with stronger evidence. And grammar and how to introduce the quotes.

                The Global Issues paper to me was my least favorite to write. I didn’t do so well with supporting my thesis which got a D I lost the drive to write about this issue because it didn’t connect to me or interested me very much. With this paper I became lazy to cite things correctly, and I could have done much better than the grade that I received, but that paper that I turned in did.

                And finally the WrAp essay was we had to write about whether you were for or against free music downloading. I was for downloading free music and told why and supported my ideas. I received 4.0’s for all the techniques scoring an overall 24.0. I was really happy with this because I have never received all 4’s; I usually had a couple 3.5’s. I thought this was a good step up for me with the WrAP writing prompts.

                Overall throughout the year my writing has progressed in some place, but fell in others. And throughout the year all my papers had some similarities that fell on the technique of organizing my ideas better. I like writing about places and object that I have seen or in contact with. I hope in later years my writing will continue to grow better. And I also hope that I will organize my paper better with writing more essays and papers.

Common Errors List:

1. Semicolons must have and independent clauses that are closely related on both sides.

ex: Call me tomorrow; I will give you my answer then.

2.Use commas before or surrounding the name or title of a person directly addressed.
ex:Will you, Haley, do that assignment for me? 
Yes, Doctor, I will.
3. Commonly confused word: affect vs. effect 
rules :Rule 1. Use effect when you mean bring about or brought about,cause or caused. Ex:He effected a commotion in the crowd.
Rule 2. Use effect when you mean result. EX:What effect did that speech have?
4.Subject pronouns are used when the pronoun is the subject of the sentence. You can remember subject pronouns easily by filling in the blank subject space for a simple sentence.
EX:______ did the job.
I, you, he, she, it, we, and they all fit into the blank and are, therefore, subject pronouns.

 5.If a word answers the question how, it is an adverb. If it can have an -ly added to it, place it there.

EX:She thinks slow/slowly.

She thinks how? slowly.
She is a slow/slowly thinker.
Slow does not answer how, so no -ly is attached. Slow is an adjective here.
6.When the entire whoever/whomever clause is the subject of the verb that follows the clause, look inside the clause to determine whether to use whoever or whomever.

EX:Whoever is elected will serve a four-year term.Whomever you elect will serve a four-year term.