K.+Reflection+Paper


 * __ REFLECTION PAPER __**

It’s the end of the year again. Another great year at school. It was filled with all kinds of cool things and bad. Over the year I think my writing has grown a lot. It feels like when I write that it actually is making sense now. My leads, I think, have gotten better. Also planning part of the writing. Now I plan my whole paper out before writing it. Usually I never did that, I would just write the paper from off the top of my head. Also the complexity of my writings. They are more complex now in multiple ways. A thing that has changed a lot is my use of mechanics in my writings. I know how to use commas and stuff like that in the write ways so that the sentence makes since. I would say my strengths are organization of a paper. But not only that, planning to write a paper I do really well. My layout of a paper before I write it is really good and organized. So that when I write my papers I just read off my brainstorm page. My body paragraphs are real good. That is one of my strengths. Usually my body paragraphs are interesting to read and keep the reader interested. Also another strengteh of mine is my whole first paragraph of my papers. Sometimes that paragraph will be longer then my body paragraph. It has everything the teacher is asking for though. So my strengths are my first and body paragraphs, my organization, and my planning of a paper. One of the worst weaknesses I have is using the word I. I use that letter a lot throughout my writings. I just can not help it to use that word. It comes so naturally to use that word when im writing. Its really bad though. I hate using it everytime I do. But when I do I read that sentence and try to figure out how it could have been rewritin. I am trying hard to fix that weakness. It is just hard to no use the letter I. Another weakness of mine is my closing paragraph. I do not know how to close a writing in the last paragraph. It just comes hard to me when writing the last paragraph. That my ownly weakness I think. I have improved on my overall writing, but it is the little things inside. Like one thing I just can not seem to fix is the use of the word I. It is hard to not use the word I. I think it is because my vocabulary is not that large. If I knew a lot of things like that I would be able to not use that word. I have gotten better on my leads though. I think it is because we spent so much time on them in class that I finally learned how to make a good lead. My leads could use a little more work but they are getting there. My favorite peace in the portfolio would probly be the narrative essay. Only because I am writing about myself. I am writing about the things that I have to do in the future and what I need to do to get there. Also I think it is one of my best writings out of the whole portfolio. I felt like there was a lot of variety and it was complex and the lead was good. I do not know how a teacher would feel about it but I thought it was great. My least favorite peace would have to be the extended metaphor poem. After I read the poem to myself after writing it I thought it was not that good. I did not know how to make it better. I am just not a poem writer. I am more of a narrative essay type of writer. Poems come really hard to me when writing them. That is why the extended metaphor was my least favorite peace. Wikispace is way better then using paper portfolios. First of all because that would have been a lot of paper they all of us students would have been turning in. Also it saves the teachers from having to carry off of the paper portfolios which would be a lot. Aloso it is easier on the students because some students loose a lot of things. If a student is like that then that student would be fine after they knew that they have saved the paper to wikispace. Then they could feel that relief of having turned it in with out loosing it before it gets to the teacher. Personally I like wikispace way better then a paper portfolio. Only because it allows students to be more organized with things. Also once it is on the computer it is in the portfolio for good. There could not be a mistake of loosing anything, which I have had trouble with in the past. Over all I like wikispace way better then having turned in a portfolio.