blog #11

Culminating Writers Profile

1.When I started this class, I didn't realise there would be as much writing as there is. I was always told by previous english teachers to never use the word I in an essay, however in AP, all or moat essays are personal and therefore require the word I. I am having a hard time transitioning into telling structured personal stories.

2. My strength as a writer has always been creativity. I have always been told that I have a creative mind so when I am writing, I like to take that creative mind of mine and run with it.

3. My weakness is probably commentary. I have never been very good at supporting my statements. I feel that I can strengthen my disability to write strong commentary just by looking at me concrete details and elaborating them, however it is harder to do it than to think of doing it.

Evaluating Your Writing Process

1. If given another chance to edit my essay i would make it more concrete. I would take my topic of bipolar and create a better light to it because after turning in the old one I wasn't to happy with it.

2. The easiest element to improve my essay was the purpose. A peer told me the purpose of my essay wasn't clear so I revised it to make my purpose set in stone.

3. The biggest problem I had when writing the definition essay was an idea. Once I got my idea the hardest part was the structure. when revising the essay the hardest part again was getting the structure just right to satisfy my desired structure.

Evaluating Your Successes

1. My most successful revision happened in the conclusion. I had a hard time deciding how I wanted to wrap up my essay. It took maybe forty-five minuets along to revise my conclusion.

2. well, I attempted to include imagery and language that would give off a poetic vibe. I was unsuccessful and strove for a more informative lack of advanced language. 

3. I considered the fact that someone in my class would read my essay, however that had little effect. so I broadened my audience to people that could relate to my topic.

Being Honest with Self

1. the most intimidating part of this essay was the prompt itself. When I read the prompt, I thought it was impossible-make the intangible, tangible. I stressed over it a little bit the overcame it because I knew it wasn't worth it to blow this assignment.

2. All of them really. Like I mentioned before, I had never before written an essay that required me to talk about myself or my opinions, so I didn't really know what I was doing. I used all the Essay's we went over in class as inspiration and guidelines for my essay.

3.  I definitely used other students work to help me with mine. for example their essay structures. I didn't know how to structure my essay so I used classmates as examples.

4. I learned from a peer that i included to much information that was not necessary and did not relate to my thesis nor my topic.

5. I feel very accomplished after turning in that essay. I do not see myself as a professional at all but instead, I see myself with a ton of improvement opportunities for this class.