There is so much that I want to talk about regarding this quarter of English 11, so I guess I will start here. The first few weeks of class I thought that you, Ms. Buckler, were absolutely crazy with what you were making the class do. I believed that the weekly portfolios would be a waste of time, and that my writing was the way it had been my whole high school career and that was not going to change. It seems that I was wrong with my first impression of this. With just the seven portfolios that I have written my writing has changed greatly. Just the other day I have to turn in practically a whole book for a contest and a magazine writer told me that my style of writing was very well. I never would have gotten that comment without all of the writing that I am doing in this class. …show more content…
The last few free writes that we have had were much more enjoyable to write since they were something I felt passionately about. I think over the past quarter my style of writing has become much clearer and flows more smoothly. Also I never knew what to look for while editing my paper until I started to print out rough draft and read over them. While reading printed rough drafts I notice awkward sentences, spelling errors, and most importantly missing commas. Another exercise that we do in this class is paragraph responses. Although this is a weak area for me I think that I have gotten stronger since the start of the year. I now know what a topic sentence should be and how to select good evidence to use. Also learning how to integrate quotes properly brought my writing to a new