Writing as a Recursive Process

 

As we star ted our first rough draft of the literary narrative there has been many changes that have been made to the final product. There is also something can be added or taken out of an essay, it is a never ending process that requires balance of how much you want to change. The most important correction i made to my writing was the reconstruction of my topic paragraphs and my topic sentences. I was constantly challenged by my topic paragraph. It is difficult making sentences related to your ideas, without giving away the main points. My strength in my writing is seen within the body paragraphs making points that relate to the idea of my essay. While i view this as my strong area, i still have much to learn about sentence structure and connecting the sentences together. The problem i have is that i have all of the ideas and strong support for them but i do not put them in the right area or after the right sentence. I am making progress in learning which ideas make the most impact if put in the right area that relates to it. This way i was able to strengthen my points that i lay out in my essay.

Active Reading. Critical Reading, and Informal reading response

 

Reading a passage and drawing out the idea that the author is trying to show the reader is difficult if they do not apply the skills that they have learned. Without the tools of underlining and or highlighting the text, it is almost impossible to remember the points of the text without it. Also making comments next to the highlighted text about what the author is telling you makes it so much easier to further understand their ideas. I could improve on how many times i comment on the text that i have underlined, i could further break down the ideas with more effort. The amount of effort put in is a major key to understanding the text. I could also read the text in one sitting, i have a problem where i space out the reading assignments between times. When it would benefit me more to read the whole text in one session to further increase my understanding. I make the responses based on what i highlighted and or commented on, without these steps my answer would not be as strong.

 

 

Critique Own and Other’s Work

 

Critiquing someone else’s work is difficult because there is a lot of ways to change a structured paragraph. The most important part of critiquing work is providing feedback that helps the writer improve. This is hard due to the many things that could be wrong with a paper, even reading over my drafts i could point out a million things wrong about it. It is more difficult to critique a draft of someone’s work rather than a final copy. This is because the writer knows is is not finished but the reader sees all of the mistakes. I could improve my skill to analyze the text by practicing on more writings of other students. I try to share the points and ideas that they can capitalize on to make their argument stronger. The idea of critiquing is to show what they should add to benefit their paper and explain why certain things do not belong in that area. When looking at my own work it is hard not to be critical about what i wrote and delete a sentence or two. This is why looking at other’s papers helps me practice to write better papers in the future. Looking at my writing can be improved if i looked at it, and only gave positive feedback. I could work on how to say what i think they should change in a more beneficial way for them.

Control Individualized Error Patterns

 

The way a person writes can be seen as a pattern of how they set up their sentences to achieve the point they are trying to get across. The problems i have is that i have too much i want to say in one sentence so i end up having many run on sentences. This type of error is at the beginning of learning to write and i need to improve on saying point concisely that fits on a line or a half. I could fix this by already planning out my sentences and where i can fix my problem of long sentences. This allows me to also group together same ideas of where i can support the point i am making. I also have the habit of using terms like While,Us, After, But, and Because, to start sentences. These words make starting a sentence much easier, but do not make sense to use. There are many ways i can improve my writing and another way is not repeating the same word or words over and over again. By repeating words it weakens my argument by continuously showing the word that is related to the idea that i am trying to convey.