Blog 11

AP Language and Composition Wight

Metacognition Questions on Definition Essay

Meta-Cognitive Reflection Directions: Respond to the following questions in your reflection journal. Your answers must be in complete sentences. All questions must be labeled by section and number. Keep organized for easy evaluation by instructor.

Culminating Writers Profile

Discuss how your expectations about your writing style and needs have both changed and remained the same since this class has started.

- I didn't expect to have grown so much in my writing in such a short time, but I already feel like I am improving immensely.

What do you see as your strengths as a writer and how have you reinforced them?

- I feel like I have a unique style and sentence structure, and i try to reinforce them whenever I can in my writing.

What do you still see as your writing weaknesses and what have you done to strengthen those areas?

- I defiantly need to improve my word choice and rhetorical devices. I try to listen to what Mr. Wight has to say and imput them into my writing.

Evaluating your writing process

If you had the time to write one more draft of this essay, how would you improve it?

- I would add in better language, and more imagery, but overall I enjoyed my essay structure.

As you received peer feedback and revised your essay, what did you find the easiest element to improve in your essay?

- I found it very easy to add more "oomph" to it. It was easy to improve the parts lacking interest or pizazz.

Discuss the biggest problem you had in writing and revising this essay.

- I had a really hard time connecting my introduction to my whole essay.

Evaluating Your Successes

Discuss your most successful large scale revision in this essay.

- I changed a lot of the intro and conclusion to make them work together.

Discuss your success in combining descriptive, narrative, and illustrative elements into this Definition Essay.

- I used a lot of personal narrative using description hoping to "show", rather than "tell".

Discuss your best success when considering your audience.

- I think my examples, which are personal stories, are very relatable, and add a lot of interest to the paper.

Being Honest with Self

What most intimidated you about this writing process and how did you combat this intimidation?

- It intimidated me to even write the essay, but once I started writing the ideas came to me and the paper started to flow.

What idea from our text influenced you to try a new strategy within your writing process?

- The box man paper influenced me to reveal my point in the end of my paper and to stay far away from shaffer format.

What idea did you pick up on from reading student essay examples that you tried in your own writing process?

-I always try to use student examples to help me with structure.

What idea for improving your essay did you learn from a peer?

- Peers told me to add more detail, and bulk. They also helped me connect the intro to the conclusion.

Where do you see yourself as a writer now, in both strengths and weaknesses, after completing this writing course?

-I see myself as a pretty good writer in my method,and imagery or details, but i suffer when it comes to using "mature" wording. After this course i really hope to have improved a lot in all aspects of writing.