Friday, October 15, 2010

Blog #11 - Metacognition Questions on Definition Essay

Culminating Writers Profile
1. I feel that my expectations for my writing style has changed because I know write the same way on different things, while before my styles changed.
2. I think my strengths in writing is that I'm able to make clear points based on facts or quotes from the source material.
3. I think my weakness is going off from my original thesis but Ive changed this by going back and usually rewriting my paper.

Evaluating Your Writing Process
1.  I thought that for the prompt i turned in the best essay I could, but I would take some cliche aspects out.
2. The easiest element to improve was taking out those cliche parts.
3. My biggest problem was not knowing how to finish the essay from where I started, so I rewrote it.

Evaluating Your Successes
1. My success in revising was that I rewrote the entire essay into what i thought was a much better essay.
2. My essay was mostly narrative in how I set it up as going to sleep and having dreams because I defined having ambition.
3. I thought my best success, considering the audience, was having a quote that applied well to my topic.

Being Honest With Self
1. The biggest intimidation was that this was my first AP paper, but I just got over it and wrote my paper.
2. What influenced me was reading Almbom's flashbacks and that inspired the style of my essay.
3. I don't really remember picking up one solid idea from the examples.
4. I learned to use less cliches when I write.
5. I think I'm a a better writer now because I overcame my biggest problem in this writing course.

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