M.+Reflection

Reflection My writing skills have improved significantly in Mrs. Szymczak’s English 11 course, because she taught me a lot about how to write an astounding paper. I feel that I have learned a myriad of knowledge and I have become a much better writer, because of her skills. Some major objectives I have completed are that my vocabulary, sentence structure, and writing thesis statements have improved a multitude from last year. I have come a long way in becoming a better writer and there is still much more that needs improvement such as, picking a good lead or finding errors in my paper. However, I fell extremely satisfied with my improvement and my growth as a writer in my eleventh grade English class.  My favorite piece of writing I made this year was my Gatsby Rap where I had to use my vocabulary list and I wrote a poem with it. My poem was a story about two young teenagers who fall in love and have a quarrel about one cheating on the other. I like this piece very much, because it combines my innermost feelings while using my outstanding vocabulary to write this page. In a lot of my favorite papers I like to express what is going on inside my head such as, if I get an eerie feeling inside me I write about that feeling similar to Edgar Allan Poe. Almost all of my works are expressing my inner emotions. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> My least favorite piece of writing is my Extended Metaphor poem even though I did a <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">good job on it. When I first wrote that story I was in a lot of anguish, because I was just rejected <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">by a girl that I had a crush on, and that is what made that paper have a depressing mood to it. It <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">was a paper describing how I felt inside and what I should do it is like “having voices in the back <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">of my head.” When I took a gander at that paper a month later I was like “Huh, what is this.” I <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">would start over the whole assignment if I could right now. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I have learned several new skills this year and gained many strengths. My vocabulary has <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">improved astronomically and is above most of my skills as a writer. My sentence structure has <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">gotten much better and I write longer sentences. Mrs. Szymczak told me how to become a more <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">skilled writer and she taught me these abilities. If I was not strong in these areas then all my <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">assignments on my Wikispace would not be nearly as good as they are right now. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I still have a lot more work that needs improvement for me to become a better writer. I <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">need to start essays off with a better lead and it is hard for me to find the right lead, so that is <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">why I do not type good leads. I also need help with punctuation, because most of the time I do <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">not know where to accurately place commas at. Most of all I need help with organization, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">because I lose my notes and papers and I have a tough time remembering them. I still need <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">improvement, but I believe that I will become an even more skilled writer one day. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I think that the portfolio’s on Wikispace’s are more appropriate for my levels of skill, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">because I can keep track of them better. I am not very good at organization because I lose my <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">papers often and Wikispace helps me keep track of them. Wikispace has helped me with <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">organization because I can keep my papers in order. I think the technique of Wikispace is very <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">appropriate. I hope to become an accomplished writer someday, and Wikispace will help me do <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">that.