Writing as a Recursive Process
Throughout the Literacy Narrative project I believe I have done a fairly good job using the Writing as a Recursive Process skill. If you look at the difference between my first Literacy Moment, first draft Literacy Narrative then to my final draft of the Literacy Narrative then it is obvious to see that I made great improvements to the body paragraphs. I did this by developing my ideas and expanding on them, adding new body paragraphs, and improving the organization of the narrative as well. In doing so it made the readability of my narrative improve. With this evidence I believe I fall between Master and the midpoint on the evaluation scale.
Active Reading, Critical Reading, Informal Reading Response
I believe I did very well on this portion of the project. If we look back at my main blog page it is clear that I read, annotated and responded to all of the readings that were assigned. Whether it was Dweck, King, Alexie, or Rose I completed the readings for all of them and annotated the work fairly well. I was able to show through annotations my understanding of key concepts, questioning, and relating multiple texts. The only part that might be lacking a little bit is the proof of me questioning their works. I believe my informal writing responses to the readings were also well done and I was able to put my annotations to good use in those responses. Because of the proof in my blog posts, I believe I fall between Master and the second to last hash mark on the evaluation scale.
Critique Own and Others’ Work
Critiquing work during this project was an overall success for me. I believe I made good, constructive comments on my group members’ papers as well as on my own Literacy Narrative Draft 1. As you can see from that link to my first draft, I made comments on my own paper and went on to edit my comments and the comments the people in my group gave me on my final draft. The comments that I made on my group members papers gave them specific suggestions such as moving a paragraph to the introduction paragraph because it made more sense to go there, showing where they could add more detail to expand on their narrative, and also tell them what I really like about all of their papers. With this evidence I think I fall between the midpoint and the next hash mark on the evaluation scale.
Control Individualized Error Patterns
Going through my Literacy Narrative I didn’t see very many grammatical errors during the revision process. I did make some corrections with commas, run-on sentences, and other punctuation errors during this process, but it wasn’t until I met with my English tutor, Mr. Moore, that he helped by showing me other rules about punctuation. He helped me correct my Literacy Narrative further and taught me other rules about punctuation I didn’t know about before that. Because of my in depth proof reading I did on my own and with Mr. Moore I believe I should fall between the last hash mark and Master on the evaluation scale for this project.
