Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blog Entry 7: Reflection and Evaluation

I have look back at my previous work and i think i have done a good job at organizing my paragraphs and being able to write a well introduction. However, i need to improve on how to organize my ideas into sequence, so that it can flow with my thesis. I also need to know how to avoid making run on sentences and come up with more examples to support my essays. There is only a little bit on challenges i am facing in this class is being able to come up with different was to outline my essays before writing it and also how to be better at proof reading my work before submitting it in. i believe that i need to be able to brain storm and think about what i really want as my claim and be able to have good evidence to support it. i was nervous because i understood what the main idea was, but i didnt think i came up with a good claim and support ideas, so that it was clear and understood. my question on the CATW practice test was that " is children who exercise get high grades on the test?" i answer it by introducing the article by it title and author and also stated the main idea and stated my claim about it. I also believe that i need to improve on my pace and take my time and just think before i start to write i think. brain storming helps me and i hope i learn to be able to improve on this skills that i have listed above to help me get a great score on my test score and help me to pass my essays in the course of the semester.
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  1. CJSMarch 28, 2011 at 8:12 PM

    Hi:

    Below you will find my response for this blog series. This is not a grade, nor is it intended to be read as an evaluation of your performance in this class so far. The evaluation of the blog series may be found in Blackboard in the gradebook for this class and the grade is derived from a totally dofferent method as described in the syllabus. What you will see below is a response to your overall writing as of this blog series. The categories are from the CAT-W evaluation rubric (what the evaluator’s use). The comments below are intended to be both descriptive (what I see) and prescriptive (what you need to work on). I will be speaking with you personally about your current strengths and weakness during class. Please feel free to ask as many questions as you like about the following in class, during office hours, or in our FB groups.

    Critical Response to Writing Task and Text: For this category, I look to see if you summarized effectively thereby demonstrating that you understood the reading/text, that you are actively engaging with the ideas of the text and responding in some way to them. For this category, you are fine but could still use some improvemement.

    Development of Writer’s Ideas: This category responds to how well you use reasons to support your claim, how well you use evidence to support your reasons, and how well the reasons work together as a whole. For this category you need more work, particularly in your use of detail?

    Structure of the Response: Is it an argument essay? Does it work well as a whole? This category is concerned with the overall structure of your writing--can I see that you had a plan and executed it well.

    Sentences, Word Choice, Grammar, Usage, Mechanics: Is your wriitng clear and easy to read? That is what this category is all about. What issues need to be addressed now to improve the overall effect of your writing?

    Overall: From this blog series I can see that you have the basics dwon from the first few weeks. You are summarizing the texts, identifying main ideas, responding to them, and you are writing “essays” when asked. Now we will work on argument format for essays and development. You are exactly where you need to be at this point in the class. Keep up the good work!

    PS-- No more "u" in essays 'k?

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