Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Reflecting on Essay #1 Feedback

Griselda Mercado

1. What surprised you about my comments? Why? What surprised me about your comments was that my points don’t make sense in some paragraphs or they’re not outright stated. This surprised me, because now I know that I have to be more specific and every time I add the word that or the I have to specify on what I’m talking about, because what makes sense to me, might not make sense to other people.

2. What comments did you find the most helpful? Why? The comments that I found most helpful were the ones that said what I had to improve on. They were most helpful, because now I know what to pay more attention on in my writing for example, where to put commas it seems as if I LOVE commas and I put them in many places where they don’t belong.

    3. What comments did you find the least helpful? Why? I honestly don’t think there were comments that weren’t helpful, even the good comments were helpful in that they let me know which things I did correctly.

4. Based on my comments, what ONE part of the essay rubric do you think you should focus on and improve upon in your next essay?  Explain and be specific. On my next essay I should focus on where I place my commas, I get excited writing those. I write way too many, more than I should. I should watch where I put them and make sure they really belong there.

5. Grade your effort: based upon the time, energy and focus you put into your process work, class participation and the final essay itself, what grade would you give yourself on your effort? Why? Be specific about what you did to ensure you did well on the final essay (including meeting with your Pass the Torch tutors, and/or office hours) I would give myself a B, because I feel like I should’ve spent more time on my essay, revised it a few more times, make sure my topics made sense, and that I didn’t completely ramble on what I was trying to say. Also limit the amount of run-ons and fragments in my essay. I met with you for office hours to make sure my essay made sense. Your feedback was really helpful.



6. What will you do to ensure you do well on this next essay? I will get my ideas together and know what it is exactly that I’m trying to say/ prove. I’ll try to not write as many commas, and only have one topic in each body paragraph.

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