As my English composition I class is coming to an end, I have been reflecting on certain things that we have done in this class. One thing that has occurred in this class that really stands out to me is our writing process. Instead of turning in our papers and receiving a grade, our teacher uses the approach of constantly revising our work. We post drafts of our papers onto our website by certain dates but we can constantly revise our work. Our final draft of our paper is due by the last day of our semester. This process allows us to grow as writers and to be able to develop well written papers. Our teacher constantly gives us opportunities for feedback on our papers too in order to make them better. For both our memoir and research paper he offered hand-written feedback as long as we gave him our draft. For our memoirs, we had conferences to discuss our papers and ways to make it better. For our research papers, in class we went over how to structure our paper and ways to improve our thesis to make it detailed enough. Also at any time you can make an appointment or talk to him during class to talk about your work. This approach has been very helpful in becoming a better writer for me and I have liked it a lot. When you just receive comments on a paper without any other information editing a paper can be hard and not allow you to grow. When I receive comments, I blindly fix the mistakes without processing what I did wrong. In this class while I was talking about my paper I was able to see he strong and weak points in my story, along with how to make it a better writing. During our conferences our discussions were led by ourselves which was very helpful to me. When I went into a conference with previous teachers they would tell me my mistakes and then send me off to fix it. When I went into my conference for my midterm and memoir I was to lead the conference. I was asked what parts of my story I liked and could make better and how. I had to figure out what to improve and then he guided me on ways to improve it. This was awesome to go through because when I went home I knew which parts I had written well. My introduction was very well written but prior to the conference I was unsure of it. After talking about it I realized that was a strong point in my story and I had done a good job. Before this class my writing was very weak and I did not enjoy English at all because I have associated it with reading and then writing based off a book. Taking this course has taught me to enjoy writing and allow me to grow as a writer. I enjoyed going to class each week to learn more about techniques and other things. I feel as if the approach that we had used this semester for writing has made me improve as a writer and I hope more teachers adapt this method. This is the model we had used in our class for writing. Our process leads to our product, and when the two are combined it makes our portfolio.
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Sabatino
12/6/2017 04:14:33 pm
I am so glad to read that you valued our approach to writing and making meaning in this class -- and that you have experienced growth as a writer. In the future, if you ever want to discuss your writing, send me an email and we can schedule a time to talk.
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Brianna Costa
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