M.+Course+Reflection

Every year of school more and more essays. Over the past few years writing has been hard for me. This year I believe I have done some of my best writing. In my writing I have gotten better in my usage and mechanics area. My reflection paper is about my growth as a writer, my strengths and weaknesses, my favorite writing piece, and what I think about wiki vs. portfolios.

I have come a long way with my writing this year. I can remember my 9th and 10th grade year when my writing was not very good. My hardest area was the usage and mechanics because I have never been good with commas, punctuation, sentence formation, and spelling. This year I feel like I can be proud of my writing because in my past years I would at least hope to pass.

When it comes to writing I have a lot of strengths and weaknesses. My biggest weakness is my spelling. Spelling has always been bad for me, I would have a sentence in mind but if I didn’t know how to spell a word, I would have to change up the sentence to avoid that word. With these spelling quiz’s that Ms. Szymczak gives us, I feel that I have improved heavily in my spelling. Another big problem for me is my commas and run-on sentences. This year we have gotten comma and run-on work sheets, which have helped out. My strengths would have to be my organization because I am always on topic and I have effective use of transitions. In my writing I don’t really get of topic.

My favorite piece of writing I have done this year was definitely being my persuasive essay on ghosts. This topic was in my opinion was the best work I have done in a long time. I knew what I was talking about the whole time and never got of topic. I felt like this was the best topic because my favorite TV show is about hunting ghosts. So I thought it would be good to persuade people that they are real. I am not a big fan of writing essays but for this one it was fun.

I do like wikispace better than paper portfolios because with paper portfolios you can loss work. With wikispace you can’t really lose it because it is already saved on the computer. With wikispace you can customize the pages and make them look nice from the internet. With a paper portfolio you can still customize it but it takes more time, with all the coloring things like that. With wikispace you can look up assignments and homework that the teacher can post. You can also send friend request to people with paper portfolios you cannot.

This year I have gotten the most essays in any of my English classes before. But these have been my best essays I have ever written. Yes, none of use students like to write essays but we have to do it anyways. I hopefully will continue it write better essays.