Taking Stock of Your Writing

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

The main point of my story was to show my struggles in middle school, once I joined agate, when it came to writing. In elementary school writing was always easy for me but once getting into agate I had to learn how to write differently which I really struggle with at first but with time I finally nailed it!

22.         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 is my fellow classmates and professor. While writing this story I had to include much background information about my schools, especially my elementary, to allow the audience to understand where I first learned how to write and why I wrote the way I did.

33.         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?

My classmate gave me good advice to try and not repeat myself, which I had been doing a little in my writing. I also was advised to include some quotations and dialog in my writing, which I then did. This was very helpful because it allowed my story to come alive more.

44.        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 interesting to be writing from my own point of view which is something I hadn’t done in a while. At first it was bit of a struggle to say “I” instead of the “he” or “she” I’m use to, but eventually I got it down and it became easy to remember to.

55.        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 am unsure of how I started the paper off, my opening sentence is not the strongest so it is something I will need to go back and look at. A strength in my paper is the paragraphs that I really explain the main point and purpose of why I was writing about this topic.