1. My initial thoughts to my summer reading writing sample was shock. To believe that my writing was so out of sorts and in cohesive truly bewilders me considering where I am now. My word choice in the sample aren't very elaborate and the writing just didn't correctly portray me as a writer but it does help show my growth as a writer as of now
2. My progress as a writer from the start of the year brings me joy considering how well my writing is now. Over the course of the year, I learned how to carefully and informatively piece together my essay to make it flow and appear logically. These two traits helped me create vivid and instructive essays which proves that I grew drastically from the start of the year.
3. The parts of analytical essays that I tend to struggle with the most are not over analyzing and repeating statements when discussing quotes and over thinking how to write out the essay. On occasion, I tend to write out a certain analysis towards a quote which I will then retype in a different way but it basically says the same thing. Also, I spend so much time over thinking certain sentences and ideas to the point where I would just lose complete focus on the essay and zone off into something else. This con made it hard for me to make the essay cohesive and rather than finishing the essay shortly, I had to prolong it to compensate for the unnecessary thinking.
4. These negative traits were often overcome by me just slowing down and fully thinking about what I wanted to say and how I would type it out. Rather than just thinking about the idea, I would type out the idea and edit it afterwards to suit my liking. Another way I set aside these problems is by asking my teacher if she liked the revised product of the essay and , if she enjoyed it, I would keep the essay how it was and proceed with the next idea.
5. I don't feel I have much to improve on rather than not sounding so stiff and computerized in the essay and not procrastinating my essay. Sometimes, I feel as if my essay just sounds too boring and programmed (if that makes sense) to sound a specific way so that the teacher reads what she wants to read. Also, I need to manage my time better and put aside time for the essay so I don't have to wait last minute to type out the whole essay a night before the due date.
6. In all honesty, the assignment that I am most proud of is my Kite Runner essay. Considering the emotional sentiment that I had towards the novel, it made writing the essay that much more fun and simple. I've never had such a sympathetic feel towards a novel as I did with the Kite Runner and for some reason all of the ideas I had that I wrote about just flowed beautifully in my essay. The Kite Runner was important to me because it made me realize what would happen if I lost a loved one the way Amir did (made me think of losing my siblings) and I wanted to prove my love for the novel within my essay and I did just so.
7. I never used or understood the loop structure so I can't give any opinions on it. I assume that if I were to use it that it would help with my organization skills.
8. Mrs. Cracchiolo was one of the most kind and genuinely caring teacher I have worked with as a student. Her strength as a teacher was that she was able to fully explain everything she talked about in a way that all of her students could comprehend and that she was willing to give extra help to anyone in need. Mrs. Cracc made all of the novels we read feel emotionally valuable towards us due to how she explained them and elaborated on them which made her such a great and informative english teacher.
9. Her teaching of writing couldn't be any better to me because I understood everything that she wanted us to do and she gave us more than enough time to write each of our essays.
10. I hope that my writing style continues in college and it doesn't take me so long to write essays considering most of my assignments in college will be writing assignments .
2. My progress as a writer from the start of the year brings me joy considering how well my writing is now. Over the course of the year, I learned how to carefully and informatively piece together my essay to make it flow and appear logically. These two traits helped me create vivid and instructive essays which proves that I grew drastically from the start of the year.
3. The parts of analytical essays that I tend to struggle with the most are not over analyzing and repeating statements when discussing quotes and over thinking how to write out the essay. On occasion, I tend to write out a certain analysis towards a quote which I will then retype in a different way but it basically says the same thing. Also, I spend so much time over thinking certain sentences and ideas to the point where I would just lose complete focus on the essay and zone off into something else. This con made it hard for me to make the essay cohesive and rather than finishing the essay shortly, I had to prolong it to compensate for the unnecessary thinking.
4. These negative traits were often overcome by me just slowing down and fully thinking about what I wanted to say and how I would type it out. Rather than just thinking about the idea, I would type out the idea and edit it afterwards to suit my liking. Another way I set aside these problems is by asking my teacher if she liked the revised product of the essay and , if she enjoyed it, I would keep the essay how it was and proceed with the next idea.
5. I don't feel I have much to improve on rather than not sounding so stiff and computerized in the essay and not procrastinating my essay. Sometimes, I feel as if my essay just sounds too boring and programmed (if that makes sense) to sound a specific way so that the teacher reads what she wants to read. Also, I need to manage my time better and put aside time for the essay so I don't have to wait last minute to type out the whole essay a night before the due date.
6. In all honesty, the assignment that I am most proud of is my Kite Runner essay. Considering the emotional sentiment that I had towards the novel, it made writing the essay that much more fun and simple. I've never had such a sympathetic feel towards a novel as I did with the Kite Runner and for some reason all of the ideas I had that I wrote about just flowed beautifully in my essay. The Kite Runner was important to me because it made me realize what would happen if I lost a loved one the way Amir did (made me think of losing my siblings) and I wanted to prove my love for the novel within my essay and I did just so.
7. I never used or understood the loop structure so I can't give any opinions on it. I assume that if I were to use it that it would help with my organization skills.
8. Mrs. Cracchiolo was one of the most kind and genuinely caring teacher I have worked with as a student. Her strength as a teacher was that she was able to fully explain everything she talked about in a way that all of her students could comprehend and that she was willing to give extra help to anyone in need. Mrs. Cracc made all of the novels we read feel emotionally valuable towards us due to how she explained them and elaborated on them which made her such a great and informative english teacher.
9. Her teaching of writing couldn't be any better to me because I understood everything that she wanted us to do and she gave us more than enough time to write each of our essays.
10. I hope that my writing style continues in college and it doesn't take me so long to write essays considering most of my assignments in college will be writing assignments .