The first Writing Project was due! The project builders were really helpful in knowing what to anticipate for the the writing project but it was still really intense. I wanted to choose a topic that would allow me to have a lot to describe and analyze, but I don't know if I did that with out getting off track. I don't really think my thesis was all that great and "debatable" enough. In the end, I think I could have spent a lot more time on the final draft and done a better job. I really enjoyed doing the highlighting activity with our rough drafts because it visually demonstrated all the components to my essay and what I needed more or less of. Similarly, the reverse outline was helpful in pointing out what was still missing in my writing project and reminding my how useful outlines in general can be for writing. In the future, I'm going to try to do both of these for more of my essays and not write an essay all in one sitting.
I attempted to incorporate the advice from Responding-Really Responding-to Other Students' Writing in my feedback to my peers' writing. I made sure to ask questions, offer as much criticism as praise, tried to specific, and give some advice. The comments that were given to me were really helpful in revealing to me where the reader might get confused among other things. Overall, these past couple of weeks have been extremely beneficial in improving my personal writing skills in numerous ways.
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