Writing Assignment

Writing Assignment 2 Writing is a process. Moreover, it takes various steps and presents many opportunities of decision-making. Such decisions can help you focus and guide your writing, making it more clear to the reader. Taking feedback, properly analyzing it and making the right choices can greatly improve your writing as shown by Hewett (59-81). In addition, in my experience, feedback has been a great tool in guiding my writing and how I prepare for it. Being open to feedback can broaden your capacity. However, it is important to understand that not all feedback is useful for you and learn how to judge it. In the text “From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing”, Hewett uses one of her writings to exemplify how to make decisions based on the feedback you receive (59-81). The first change she made was based on the comment of a student asking for a more specific date. She decided that it would be a good addition to the text because adding a date can contextualize her piece (66). By the same token, she also argued that some feedback …show more content…
Likewise, ever since starting college I have received significant feedback from my instructors and all of them have helped me improve. As an example, when I started my English course the instructor asked us to write a diagnostic paper to show our current knowledge of writing. I received a lot of great feedback on that assignment and was able to notice a recurrent problem of run-on-sentences, which made my texts exhaustive. As a consequence, I managed to work on my punctuation and paid close attention to it when writing my next assignment, which helped me get a full grade. In addition, according to Hewett, positive criticism “can be useful by reinforcing what they are doing well” (70). That being said, it has been my experience that when my instructors reinstate what I am doing well it motivates me to continue to improve my