Sunday, April 14, 2013

Joining the Conversation Self Assessment

My goals in writing this paper were to clearly meet all of the assignment while also providing quality information to my readers. I chose to revise Step One, and I met my goals by making an outline of all the points I wanted to make, and then went back and found the research from the sources to support the points.
I used my time to fully read all of the sources and highlight important ideas I wanted to conclude. After doing so, the process of the writing the paper went by fairly quickly. Making the outline was a useful way to manage my time and also helped me fulfill my goals.
I saw my writing changing throughout my paper. Each source was a "character" in the story. Each had a personality and a different way of speaking. Through this, I was able to expand my different ways of writing. As I was deathly sick and unable to take part in the workshop, I turned to my cousin for feedback on my paper. She explained to me when my paper did not flow as well and helped me to rethink what I was trying to say.
I learned more than I thought I would about myself as a writer. I spent all four years in high school involved in theatre and writing plays. Scripts and dialogue come more naturally to me then writing an academic paper. I am more comfortable and confident in my writing that way.
The hardest part of writing this paper was finding the time. I should have got it done sooner, but I waited until I worked eight hour shifts over the weekend. The easiest part was finding statements and studies by the authors. I had already had the main points highlighted, so putting them together was easier.
I am the proudest of all the significant research I had to include. I feel that I had a strong paper because all of my sources supported each other and went together very well. I still am not sure if all of my readers will clearly understand the flow of my paper, and that still might need improvement. I tried to write as best I could to make it flow, but every reader is different.
My writing process started with highlighting important parts in all of my sources. From then I constructed dialogue between them to help support my inquiry question. The information from each source fir together very well and contained great support. After revising my first draft, I went back and added new information and fixed parts of my paper that were not clear enough.

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