I am interested in what you think about the reflection essay that you got back. Overall, the grades were pretty good. You don't need to share your grade, but tell me if you did better or worse than you had originally thought. What are a few things you need to improve on for the informative essay, in terms of writing? What were some of the mistakes that you made? Answer the questions in 4-6 coherent sentences.
Just a reminder: we are having peer review next week. You will be in 3-person groups and peer reviewing your group members' essays. I am expecting three copies of your draft next week Monday. A draft is a working draft that at least reaches 3 pages of text. No outlines or handwritten papers. Refer to the assignment sheet if you don't understand the requirements for this essay. If you still don't have a topic, please come and see me.
I felt like i got a higher grade then I expected by a little. Since you didnt get to edit much of my rough draft, it made it hard for me to feel that it really improved, and that it was at the level you expected. I went into the final copy kind of blind, which was harder. I need to improve my run-on sentences, get rid of them and I need to have a stronger conlcusion for my informative essay.
ReplyDeleteI think I got the grade I deserved. I could have put a lot more effort in to it, but didnt. Next time I will proof-read and edit it more than I did this time because there were a lot of easy mistakes. I could have made the story flow a little better, as well as expand.
ReplyDeleteI did much better than I thought I was going to. I am always nervous turning in the first assignment into new classes, and I was worried that I wasn't going to do that great. After getting it back, a lot of the things marked I know I could've caught if I looked through it that one extra time. I know I'll have to work slowly in order to capture all the mistakes I make and I'll have to work on writing longer stories about one topic.
ReplyDeleteFor the reflection essay I thought that I did good, considering that it was the first paper for the class. I felt that I got the grade that I was thinking I would get. For the informative essay there are a few things that I will need to work on. A couple major areas that I feel that I could improve on would be things like explaining things a bit more, and give more examples, I would also work on not being repetitive with the words I am using, I found that I used the same words many times in my reflections essay. If I work on those areas I think that I could get a better grade on the next essay.
ReplyDeleteI think I got the grade that I expected and deserved. There are a few things that I need to improve for future essays. I need to add more details into my paper. I also need to take out the words very and so because they don't add much to the paper. The biggest thing is I just need to read my paper out loud so I can catch any other mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI was a little surprised by my grade, I was hoping that it was good enough for the grade I wanted. Even though I doubted myself, I knew I was going to do exceedingly better than what I had as a rough draft. Sometimes I just need to jot down some main points and ideas before I actually write a well-planned essay. My essay still had some major issues and it still needed some work. For an example, I know the tone throughout my essay was not consistent. This makes it hard for people to comprehend the mood of the story. If I'm serious and then switch to sarcastic then the reader won't know if I'm joking around or not.
ReplyDeleteI think the grade I got was what i deserved for my reflection essay. In my informative essay I think I will have to pay attention to my grammer errors. I think that brought my grade down the most. I also need to work on my punctuation with quotes. Run-on sentences was also a problem in my reflection essay. I also know that for my informative essay I will need to learn how to do in text citations. I feel that if i pay attention to these errors I can get a good grade on my informative essay.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I get a higher grade than I thought I would on the reflection essay. I am very hard on myself and try to do my best when I am writing any essay. And for this essay, I was nervous because I wrote it in a different style than I am used to. But I was proud of the paper I came up with and happy with my grade on it.
ReplyDeleteI believe that I did better in the reflection essay than I expected. However, there were obvious things I need to improve upon in my writing skills that were shown through this essay. I feel like I could have caught some of the little mistakes like a comma here or there and finding natural pauses if I had read through it one or two more times than I did. I know I need to take my time on editing and read the paper from the reader’s perspective, viewing it as if they know absolutely nothing about my topic. As well, I need to work on making sure my words and thoughts flow well when being read to rid my essays of confusing or awkward sentences.
ReplyDeleteFor the reflection essay I think I did a very good job considering my first draft. When I wrote my paper after the meeting I made the changes that were necessary but I wasn't sure on how well I made those changes. The week went on and I was very nervous about my grade because I didn't know what Chris would think of my paper. When I got my paper back though I was very excited because I put a lot of hard work into my essay.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping to do a little better on my essay, but I am not disappointed in the grade either. I think I manly made little mistakes. I know that I am really bad at run-on sentences, and I need to work on that. Also I think I had many grammar mistakes, which I will need to fix. I think a main thing I have to do is to read over the essay out loud and fix my run-on sentences. I also had a tendency to have repetition in my essay, so I should be careful when writing not to continuously repeat myself.
ReplyDeleteThe reflective essay grade I got surprised me a lot. I was not expecting it to be that low or you to grade so hard on the information. I understand that we need to elaborate on our essay and give details, but I feel that when writing I should only elaborate on what I feel is important in the essay and not every tiny detail. I was expecting to be graded more heavily on grammar because that is what I am used to being in honors and AP English classes my whole life. I need to work on my elaborating in terms of giving detail so that the reader understands.
ReplyDeleteFor the reflection essay, I think the grade I got was the grade that I deserved. I didn't make many mistakes on the draft for the paper so I didn't have that much to change for the final draft. I was excited to have a good review from you on the reflection essay and I'm hoping to do just as well on the informative essay. I wish we could have conferences with you about our papers for all of them, but I'm glad we are still having peer review.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the grade I got on my reflective essay is the grade that I deserve. I should have re-read my paper more than once and had someone else read it as well. I also only changed what we talked about during our conference and after I got it back and read through it again I realized there was some changes I should have made. My biggest problem is definitely grammer. When I write my informative essay that is my main goal in improvement.
ReplyDeleteI was expecting to do a little better on my essay. I made mistakes that I can fix easily. Although I need to cut down on my sentences because they get fairy long. I also need to work on having more detail in my paper. I cut alot of things out to expand on fewer events. The more detail the better and this will help in this next essay.
ReplyDeleteFor the reflection essay I think I did a good job and I am pleased with my grade. I made many changes after having conferences and I liked having that feed back. For the informative essay I will need to improve reading my work out loud to make sure it makes sense, and give much more detail. In the reflection essay I used a lot of the same words throughout it. if I improve these areas, I think I will do better on the informative essay.
ReplyDeleteI did just about as well as I thought I would, though I was a little bit frustrated that I was a single point short of the next grade up, so I wish I had had a few more people read through my essay before I turned it in. I had couple of unclear sentences and some capitalization issues, both of which could have been fixed with just a little more work on it.
ReplyDeleteOnce I got back my reflection essay back, I think I got what I deserved. I think if I had read my essay out load I would have caught some of my silly punctuation mistakes. For my informative essay I need to make sure I read my essay out load so that I can know where I need to put commas in sentences. I can prevent my punctuation mistakes by having others read my essay as well as re-reading it myself. I need to work on my transitions. I did not have good transitions for switching the different topics with each paragraph.
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ReplyDeleteI was extremely happy with my grade. I was a little surprised I did so well, but I felt it was a well written paper. That said, there were some mistakes with the grammar and punctuation that I made, which are things that i can improve on for the next assignment. I liked the topic of talking about ourselves because it made the paper easy and fun to write rather than a boring, lengthy research paper.
My first draft was pretty ugly, so i knew my final would be an improvement. I think this may be because it was the first paper of the year for me. I found I made a lot of small grammar mistakes, which i don't normally do. I think if I read over my informative essay out loud instead of just grazing over it, then that problem should be fixed.
ReplyDeleteOverall, I was pleased with my grade on the informative essay, and received a higher grade than I thought I would. There were a few grammatical errors that could’ve been avoided if I had read more carefully. In addition, there were a few organizational errors ; however, I am pleased with my final grade. From this assignment, I have learned that I need to work on creating a variety of sentences that will keep the reader interested.
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