Writing as a Recursive Process: 

The recursive process was never an easy thing for me I always had a tough time rewriting what I have already wrote. That was the lazy high school version of myself. After coming to a school were the teachers care and everyone is just here on there own free will I realized that I should probably be putting in maximum effort. After I started doing that I started becoming more successful college student, so far anyway.   These examples below show that I understand writing as a recursive process, because they show the steps I took to produce a final draft. Unlike my literacy narrative draft in this draft I put in my full effort. I made a 100-200 draft where you can see my clear idea starting to develop, 300-400 where I could explain more but still couldn’t write a full idea with the amount of words, and 800 word draft where you could see the MLA format start to appear along with direct quotes and barclay’s formula.. Even after our peer review I had made a revision process and following it, that lead me to making global revisions instead of just local.

 

Integrate Ideas with Those of Others:

I have selected A few paragraphs from different parts of my paper to show how I am inserting quotes not only to take up space but I gave them a reason to be there. In the first photograph I put a quote regarding power posing, and how I had an opposing view from Cuddy. I lead up to the quote and then proceeded to enter my opinion. The second picture is two different paragraphs where I was explaining a point and was able to bring the point from the top paragraph to the one under it. The third picture is a paragraph where I was able to play off of Gee’s quote before I even stated it. This is how I believe I have made progress from this paper compared to the last, and even tho we had no quotes in the last paper it definitely was difficult to make the transition. I used contextual evidence (the quotes) to play off of my claims.

 

Active Reading, Critical reading, and Informal Reading Response:

The pieces of evidence I have provided show how I actively engaged with the reading using marginal comments in both pages, I could fill this entire project with pictures of quotes and side notes. These were the two where I though I made good text to text connection. Connecting with the documents we have read has never really been an issue for me especially up to this point I have  progressed so far in annotating. The third pic is a journal entry where I could really breakdown certain parts of Gee, and that is where annotating really helps. You can make your own connections to the story and it can help you explain it when it asks for a summary or even when typing a paper. I can just go back to my side notes and understand what is going on in the paper.

 

 

Critique Own and Others Work:

If I had to compare to our literacy narratives paper. This was by far my biggest improvement, and I can show this from my artifacts. These are two examples from my group where I made comments on there 800 word draft. In the comments I talked about there use of MLA, Barclays, and the different elements they used to build up a quote or to explain there point. This actually helped me develop my own paper. I saw others mistakes and used it to my advantage, and was able to pivot off of them to make my paper better. Critiquing my own work has never been easy, but ever since we started doing peer reviews it has become easier and a quite effective tool. Learning to appreciate the process rather then the finish product is eye opening. Learning to appreciate the process lets you build a paper from the ground up in steps. This is totally different then what I came in with the skills to do. I would write one paper and be finished, and now I can see where that is flawed.

 

 

Document Work Using Appropriate Conventions (MLA):

In our last paper we were not challenged to use proper MLA format. This paper was the exception we were supposed to use MLA format, and I have used this before multiple times in high school so it was not a surprise to me. I studied the website Owl Purdue and used there examples to perfect my Citations as you can see below. I used the correct way of quoting from the website as well as the header. Using MLA is as simple as putting in the work to do it right. I have not achieved mastery because i’m sure there is things I missed but I am definitely on my way.

 

 

Control Individualized Error Patterns: 

In this part of our evaluation I believe that I have improved a lot. The one piece of evidence I have to prove this is my revision plan. In my process of evaluation and editing of my 800 word draft I had some help from peers, and that helped but controlling your own individual errors can help when there is no one to help with revisions. In my revision plan I talked about making revisions to my first paragraph and my Barclay formula paragraphs which needed some help. With the help of my revision plan I was able to edit with ease. In this category I believe that I Have jumped past where I was in past framing statements.

 

Engangment: 

This is my strongest point in english 122, and my portfolio is here to prove it. I continuously show up to class I have only missed one due to being sick. Out of class I do all the assigned work and treat it as important not just doing it to do it. I put my full effort into this class and I have gotten a lot out of it. In class I participate any time I get the chance because when I do this I can understand and show my knowledge of the material. The best way I learn is to basically become the teacher and share my knowledge or at least my perception on the topic. I have completely come out of my shell from the beginning of the semester.