https://docs.google.com/document/d/15qoh1IUleLuvTYmO32wZheoS_NoYYqZhpbdeoDc6dnI/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BqDchVX8hRk4jNah_SjjkhZq22cq2SNMxxdT9nHAv8o/edit
Self Assessment
Learning Outcome 1
I think that my third essay is my strongest essay in the way that I showed improvement. My first draft of this essay was very incomplete, and it was only about 2 pages and it did not have a fully developed idea yet. The process of peer evaluation helped me this entire semester and I think it lead to me being able to go from a basic idea to a more structured and well thought out idea.
Learning Outcome 2
One of my major problems was that I was not using quotes effectively and during peer review I know that I would get a lot of comments that say something along the lines of “Go into more detail on this quote” or “Explain your opinion more clearly on this.” Before this class I rarely ever used quotes on my papers, and in high school it seemed easy to get away with. As long as you wrote a five paragraph essay you were all set. That was not the case in this class. Using quotes is extremely important in writing, especially when trying to prove a thesis, and both my professor and my fellow students helped me out when it came to utilizing other peoples word to help strengthen my words.
Learning Outcome 3
Active reading was something I had known about, and one of my middle school teachers would always tell us to do it, and get involved with the text and to underline and leave notes. I always was a bit lazy so I would underline for the sake of underlining just so it seemed like I was doing something, but in college level classes active reading is super important. I needed to look at the text and reread until I was sure that what I was understanding was actually what it meant. English 110 made me realise I do indeed need to use notes in the margins of my reading, as it helps jog the memory and allows me to connect the ideas of the piece to connect with the ideas that are brewing in my mind.
Learning Outcomes 5&6
I had always had trouble with MLA formatting and I still seem to have trouble based on my final essay with block quotes. With regular quotes though, I had always been confused on how to cite them inside the text, but as the semester went on I got a lot of help and learned how to format them. In actually citing the source at the end of the paper, I was already all set on that because in high school for every paper we had to do that and I never seemed to have any problems at all with it. The one thing that sometimes gets to me is I will sometimes forget to put the sources in alphabetical order and that is not the correct way to list sources. I need to be more careful with that.
Before English 110, I never realised how many grammatical errors I actually make. Before this class I also did not know what a comma splice was, and when I learned what it was I realised that I was guilty of this type of error. A mistake I had known about that I always seem to make was adding the wrong words into a sentence. What I mean by that is I would use the wrong variations of words into sentences like “their, there or they’re” or “to, too, two” I never got confused with the number two, but the two differents “to’s” (to and too) were always confusing to me.
