Taking Stock of Your Writing, Paper #1

1.   What was your main point (thesis)?  “The Moral of the Story”?

My main idea was how even when you have to write about something, finding a way to care about your writing is infinitely important. For me, I realized how impossible for me to write well about something I’m not interested in.

2.   Who was your audience?  What did you assume about them?  What “audience needs” did you have to consider in writing the paper?  How did you tailor your writing to them?

My audience was the other members of this class, and my professor. I assume they don’t know very much about me or my life, or what I think about the topic. I tried to explain my position, as well as what happened clearly, including information about circumstances they may not know. For example, I explained that my elementary and middle schools had required district writing tests all the students had to take at the end of every trimester, which probably isn’t standard in every school.

3.   What feedback or reactions did you get at various times while composing this paper, and how was this helpful?  What other kinds of input or support did you get from classmates, teacher, tutors, others?  Were you able to make use of it?  How, or why not?

I had a classmate give me feedback, she said that I needed to clarify my point, which I found very helpful when I went to revise my paper. It was really good for me to see someone else’s breakdown of what my paper was saying, it helped me see my writing from a point of view other than my own.

4.   What did you find interesting about the process you went through in writing this paper, and what did you learn from it?

I found it really hard to find a situation to write about. This is always a problem of mine, I have a hard time choosing a subject. I think it was especially hard this time because I dislike writing about myself. Once I had a subject my writing process was pretty smooth. I actually had a hard time coming up with a title though, and I still don’t like the title I came up with.

5.   What questions do you have for me about the paper?  (What part(s) of the paper would you like me to focus on?  What do you see as the paper’s strengths, and what areas are you unsure of?)

I feel like it took me too long to get to my point, the paper feels a little slow in the begining to me. I think I needed to be more descriptive, but I wasn’t sure what I needed to describe, there wasn’t really one setting I thought was important to show to the readers.