Blog #11

Culminating Writers Profile
1. My writing style has changed a bit since I've started AP English Language and Composition because I've learned new ways to write and what not write. Whereas last year I was making big mistakes which put my essays at a lower level than they are beginning to be in this class.
2. I would say that my strengths as a writer belong in the creative aspect. I haven't really done any creative writing yet but I may be using my creativity while writing the classification essay.
3. I still see weakenesses in writing essays where I need to analyze something. This year, we've done more of those but I still need to wrap my brain around them, I'm more of a sunburst thinker. When you analyze something you need to be a straight line thinker.

Evaluating Your Writing Process
1. If I had more time to do another draft of my essay, I would definitely try my best to get down the number of to be verbs I used.
2. As I recieved peer feedback the easiest thing to revise was the diction, choosing better words, and structure, making the essay flow more,  throughout my essay.
3. My biggest problem in writing and revising this essay was not using to be verbs. Usually I just use them willy-nilly and I don't care how many I have but this year I have to slim down my use of the verbs.

Evaluating Your Successes
1. My most successful revision would be changing a story that was in my essay to another story that flowed better.
2. I feel that I was more successful using descriptive and narrative elements rather than illustrative because I described more than I did illustrate I guess.
3. My best success was making the reader feel that they could relate to my stories.

Being Honest with Self
1. I was most intimidated by the fact that it was a "major out of class essay". For some reason, that just made it feel that much more intimidating. Though, once I got started, it wasn't that bad.
2. When we read the Box Man it influenced my writing approach to this essay.
3. I didn't really pick up much from reading student essay example because I don't really remember reading any.
4. I learned to use better diction to make my essay more powerful from my peer, Nicole.
5. I see myself as an average writer who definitely has room for improvement in the near future.