Blog Entry #11

Culminating Writers Profile
1. My expectations about my writing style have increased since class has started because I want to become a better writer, but I don't feel I've made a significant improvement in my writing since this year has begun.
2. As a writer, I believe my strengths are giving examples to get my point across to the reader.
3. I still see a weakness in my thesis statements. I need to work on making them stronger and tying my essay towards the thesis.

Evaluating Your Writing Process
1. To improve my essay I would put more examples and make it deeper.
2. It was easiest to revise my meaning because I knew about my topic, and had personal example to back it up.
3. The biggest problem in writing and revising my essay was making it deeper and more meaningful to society.

Evaluating Your Successes
1. The most successful large scale revision in my essay would be the audience. By reading my essay, you would see who the essay was referring to.
2. I was very descriptive when using my examples about how certain words are used out of context and in schools, but I need work on using other literary elements.
3. I think the audience of my essay understands my point that I was trying to get across because of the examples I gave.

Being Honest With Self
1. The most intimidating part about this essay was how many points it was worth and that it was the first big essay of the school year. I worked hard on the essay and wanted to get my point across .
2. Tuesday's with Morrie influenced my writing a lot because it had meaning and purpose to it and that made me want to have my essay meaninful and have purpose.
3. I tried using a more appropriate vocabulary and used "slang" terms, to describe examples.
4. My peer said that I needed to work on my thesis and tying my whole essay together.
5. I have not seen a significant improvement in my writing yet but throughout this year I hope to see a big improvement.