Media Reflection Papers

My Research paper was about how the use of social media does or does not have an impact on social movements in society. I primarily used 5 websites to be able to do this essay. Two were given to me by me Language Arts teacher and I had to look for 3 additional ones. I worked on the research paper for about 3 weeks and another 2 weeks to spend correcting it. In this essay, I will talk about what is in my portfolio, how I used a variety of strategies to improve my writing, how I interpreted the differences between revision and editing and, how I worked through different stages of the writing process.
The contents that are in my portfolio consists of: an original draft of my piece of writing, evidence of self-assessment, evidence of peer-assessment, evidence of revision notes, evidence of editing, and a self reflection. My original piece of writing was about 3 pages.I originally thought that my original piece of writing was acceptably good. I then read it twice and I started to notice some fragments. That is when I started to do my self-assessment. I found some bad grammar and added some revision notes to add a bit more information in the places that was lacking it. After that was done, I went to my oldest sibling and asked her if she …show more content…
When I proofread my original paper before turning it in the first time, I missed quite a few things I could have fixed or made better. Reading it almost a month later, I finally saw all the mistakes that I have made and couldn 't even believe i missed that many fragments. I also changes the way in how i assess myself by reading in different points of view to get a better understanding of how the reader will experience it. Finally, i started reading it out loud to catch mistakes and awkward sentences and that really helps me now because it speeds up my self assessment