M.+Reflection+Paper

Teachers hit us with more and more essays to do every year and over this year I have noticed how I have improved my writing skills. I believe this has been one of my best years for writing. I will be discussing my strengths and weaknesses of writing, what my favorite piece of work was, and my thoughts on wiki vs. paper portfolios.

When I first started this year I hated doing essays and hated writing prompts because I never thought I was good at them. I would almost always never put the right punctuation in or put a comma in the right place. My sentence formation was never too good and everything was all over the place and never made any sense. After this year I can say I am proud of my work.

One of the biggest problems for me was comma placement and run-on sentences. Mrs. Szymczak has given out so many worksheets on commas and run-ons, which have helped me out tremendously. Also one of my strengths will be my skill to stay on task during my writing and keep everything organized and make sense most of the time.

My favorite writing this year had to be the persuasive essays about how ghosts do really exist. I love this essay for one reason and that is because my friends and I always chill over and watch a ghost hunting show. I could actually relate to the topic and that is why I think I did so well on it. I must admit I am not one who likes to write essays for fun but I have to admit that this was probably one of the most exciting essays I have ever written.

Between wiki spaces and paper portfolios I believe that wiki is better. When you are using a paper portfolio, you can lose a lot of writing but when you use wiki it is all online so all of your work is saved to the computer and never lost. With wiki you can make the page to your liking and it will represent you and how you feel, not the same as everybody else’s. Also with wiki you can check your teacher’s wiki and catch up on homework if you missed a day, see what is coming up next class, and you can connect and compare with other friends on their work.

All in all, I believe I have grown as a writer extensively and even though I am not one of those students who love writing essays I am very proud of what I have written and hope it will continue for the rest of my years in school.