This portfolio will exemplify my current improvement of academic writing during the past two months. Receiving great feedback and suggestions from my peers and doing research has helped me strengthen my points, and allows me to recognize and understand certain habits used in my writing. My focus on this course in the beginning started with the question, how do I keep my focus and become a better writer by staying on track within my main focus and not move from one point to another? I wrote in my initial introduction that my writing style was similar to a kangaroo in that I often find myself hopping between my points and sometimes lose the main point that I am writing about. Having excellent feedback from my peers, positive and negative,
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I also would add a few quotes and properly cite the source and move on to the next topic. My ability to learn from my peers and see my writing through another person’s point of view has changed the way I look at writing now. First, I want to make sure I am providing a quality product that shows my best effort if I am going to have someone take the time to read and give me feedback and ideas on ways I can improve my writing. Next, I find that giving and receiving feedback is actually fun and I can see the development and improvement in my writing, and it is a result of having peers that care and are honest in their evaluation of my writing. An example of seeing my writing improve, is clearly shown from my first essay in which I received a below standard rating on my focus criteria because my overall point was unclear and confusing. My final sentence of my introduction paragraph reads “he seems to be stating that the teacher is teaching a totally alien or foreign concept that cannot be understood.” This final sentence leaves the reader confused about where this sentence fits in with my main topic. My second essay I received a standard rating and received feedback that my writing was focused around a central message was simple to understand and not confusing. I was pleasantly surprised receiving feedback from another student with feedback to an essay I submitted after the deadline and for someone to take the time to give me honest and constructive feedback when they didn’t need to was very
I also would add a few quotes and properly cite the source and move on to the next topic. My ability to learn from my peers and see my writing through another person’s point of view has changed the way I look at writing now. First, I want to make sure I am providing a quality product that shows my best effort if I am going to have someone take the time to read and give me feedback and ideas on ways I can improve my writing. Next, I find that giving and receiving feedback is actually fun and I can see the development and improvement in my writing, and it is a result of having peers that care and are honest in their evaluation of my writing. An example of seeing my writing improve, is clearly shown from my first essay in which I received a below standard rating on my focus criteria because my overall point was unclear and confusing. My final sentence of my introduction paragraph reads “he seems to be stating that the teacher is teaching a totally alien or foreign concept that cannot be understood.” This final sentence leaves the reader confused about where this sentence fits in with my main topic. My second essay I received a standard rating and received feedback that my writing was focused around a central message was simple to understand and not confusing. I was pleasantly surprised receiving feedback from another student with feedback to an essay I submitted after the deadline and for someone to take the time to give me honest and constructive feedback when they didn’t need to was very