Justin Rogstad
Dr. deGravelles
Block 4
4/29/12
9th Grade Writing Reflection Rough
Draft
In my ninth grade
year I have written many papers and essays. I have written more essays this
year, than I have in all my other years of school put together. I believe it’s
time for me to really sit down and reflect on my past writings this year.
The first paper I
wrote this year was “Publisher’s Tee”, and I must say I wasn’t a very strong
writer at the beginning of the year. I was missing little mistakes that I
shouldn’t have. Little errors like missing an apostrophe when showing
possession and missing a question mark when the sentence was a question. Those
small mistakes made me wonder why I missed those. The next paper I wrote was
the “Cole Kennedy” which was a profile assignment on a person or place. This
essay was significantly stronger than my first paper but I was still not very
strong in my writing. I made fewer mistakes but still made careless mistakes like
sentence fragments. One thing in common with my first two papers was the
length. I remember struggling with length and having writer’s block often.
Now in my third
paper this year, I wrote a paper called “Addressee Unknown”. For this
assignment we wrote a literary analysis on a short story of our choice. When
reviewing my paper I noticed that this paper is where I started seeing my
strength in my writing show up. I made fewer mistakes than ever, and I began to
miss things that were not little careless mistakes; they were more reasonable
mistakes than before. The length of my writing increased dramatically. This was
the longest paper I had written in my entire school career so far. That is
until I wrote my fourth paper, “A Nuclear North”. This assignment was to cover
a global issue that is affecting the earth and to analyze it. This paper was
almost five and a half pages. I thought this was unbelievable when I was
writing this. Overall this paper showed my strength in writing. I only messed
up on one thing in this entire paper basically, and that was the citations. I
guess I just forgot how to cite.
For the most part
I agree with the grades I have gotten on my papers. The feedback this year has
been really helpful and is one of the main reason my writing has progressed
this year. I knew that my stronger aspects of writing were mechanics,
organization, and word choice. Those aspects were shown in my writing this
year. I however knew that support and sentence structure were lacking quite a
bit. I will have to practice and work on those aspects to make my writing
great. I now know that when I focus on my writing that I should look more
closely at the aspects I am lacking in and pay less attention to what I am good
at.
My writing has been decent throughout the year. What I
believe will help my writing become better than decent make revisions more, and
I should read my writing more carefully to try to locate all my mistakes so I
can make my writing the best it can be. The main things I should work on is
citations and just be careful of careless mistakes. If I find remember to make
these adjustments, my writing will be at its highest potential for this year.
Next year in English II, I already know that
writing will be tougher on me. I decided to make some goals for the future. I
plan to practice writing with as much support and sentence structure I can to
try to focus my skills to the lacking aspects of my writing. Before I write
each of my papers next year I will be sure to review notes I have gotten this
year, like “The Traits of Good Writing”. Another goal I may carry out is I
might try to rewrite some of the papers I wrote this year and have people proof
read and give me feedback. This way I can strengthen my writing skills and get
a feel for good writing.
My writing this
year has been a beneficial experience that I will keep with me for the rest of
my writing career. I hope that all this goal setting and planning will pay off
in the long run. I also hope everyone else got as much out of this year as I
have.
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