In my essay analyzing “All Summer in a Day” I did not receive the grade I had expected for the following reasons. First of all, I lacked awareness in my grammar while writing. This led to my ideas being somewhat confusing to read such as my last paragraph which contained a very unnecessarily long run-on that did not serve a necessary purpose. On top of that, my ideas seemed very jumbled and sporadic. This is due to me not reading it aloud to myself in order to take out unnecessary details which is especially evident in, again, the final paragraph. All of these led to my understanding of the story to be blurred. If I had read my essay aloud I would have been able to detect those small errors in order to make my message clearer. Annotating the