My ability to cite sources using the MLA guidelines has significantly improved since writing my first essay and the beginning of the semester. The Little Seagull Handbook in particular has helped a lot in teaching me the proper MLA format, and also how to cite things correctly. I have also become better at addressing my … [Read more…]
Copy of Peers Edited Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iJ_wPeJlLUd_43mS8HBzW2yZA5o6kPsv/view?usp=sharing This semester I have improved a lot on this learning outcome and making useful critiques on my own and other’s work. When editing my peers paper, I first look out for small local revisions that could easily be fixed, and then move on to the bigger global revisions. The … [Read more…]
One of the reasons that I chose my third essay as my Significant Writing Project is because this was the essay where I used the most pieces of evidence and quotes from other pieces of writing. In this essay, I had three different articles that I could use to pull sources of evidence from, and … [Read more…]
First Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfqIqmOcoCdg11RoUEkvgw6dOkyprScDO58pgoccbkI/edit?usp=sharing Second Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fTY5MG0jRtwkzv1hTPk_LSazmnsZqoyB1KlYxpTsz_s/edit?usp=sharing I chose my third essay as my Significant Writing Project because I felt that after writing three essays I was confident in my skills of editing and revising my writing. I began my revision process by taking my first draft of my essay, and looking through it to find … [Read more…]
First Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfqIqmOcoCdg11RoUEkvgw6dOkyprScDO58pgoccbkI/edit?usp=sharing Second Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fTY5MG0jRtwkzv1hTPk_LSazmnsZqoyB1KlYxpTsz_s/edit
Paper #1: There were many changes made, and differences between the first and second draft of my first paper. My first draft was very rough, and was basically just a collection of all my ideas thrown together in an essay. When editing my first draft, I looked for ways to transition to and from each … [Read more…]
Paper #1- From writing this essay, I have learned a lot about how to integrate my ideas with quotes from others. Whenever I introduced a new idea or argument, I liked to back it up with a quote from another piece of work that related to my idea. This is a new skill for me, … [Read more…]
Paper #1- I am fairly new at having to be a critical reader and annotating texts, but I’ve improved a lot throughout the last couples time I have done it. I am good at taking the text paragraph by paragraph, and summarizing each one and finding the main point. I know how to take whatever … [Read more…]
Paper #1- When critiquing my own work, I mainly look for the big things first like spelling and punctuation errors, and things that are quick and easy to fix. I try to organize my ideas, and get my writing to where I think it should be, so that I can then get feedback from others … [Read more…]
Paper #1- I have improved a lot when it comes to the MLA format and MLA citations. I have had to use MLA format when citing all throughout high school too, so I’ve come to be pretty familiar with it. As I have improved on incorporating quotes into my writing, I have also had to … [Read more…]
