English 101 - "Taking Stock of Your Writing" (5 Questions on Paper #1)

1.      What was your main point (thesis)?  “The Moral of the Story”?

·         The point of my story was to explain the reasons of what I think about writing. To explain this I wanted to use an early memory to get to the root of how I ended up feeling frustrated with writing today due to poor teaching, and neglectence.

2.      Who was your audience?  What did you assume about them?  What “audience needs” did you have to consider in writing the paper?  How did you tailor your writing to them?

·         When I wrote this I considered my audience to be that of a person reading from a book. I assumed my audience (the reader/student) experienced having a bad teacher sometime in their life that caused them to feel frustrated, or out of toon with a subject.

·         I painted a picture of the scene using words followed by describing some of the tasks, and expressions to further the understanding of what was going on to the audience.

3.      What feedback or reactions did you get at various times while composing this paper, and how was this helpful?  What other kinds of input or support did you get from classmates, teacher, tutors, others?  Were you able to make use of it?  How, or why not?

·         A classmate reacted to it saying the paper had a nice voice to it as well as nice use of description, and understanding of the idea, but I needed to look over my wording in some of my sentences. To my surprise I found disturbing errors, so I was definitely able to make use of it by correcting some of my errors. I just wish I was told to do more.

4.      What did you find interesting about the process you went through in writing this paper, and what did you learn from it?

·         When I was typing out the paper I was more shocked by how smoothly I was able t recreate a past event into a story. I found it a bit stressful when I had nothing down at first, but as I started typing I learned that there was something beautiful about writing my story. The descriptions were entertaining to me, and the voice chatting in my head as I reread everything sounded pleasing to me, but I do need to work on my dialogue. Perhaps I learned that I enjoyed writing stories more than I thought.

5.      What questions do you have for me about the paper?  (What part(s) of the paper would you like me to focus on?  What do you see as the paper’s strengths, and what areas are you unsure of?)

·         Where do I start with the questions? Did you understand that I was trying to describe how when I was little I had a terrible teacher who introduced me into writing and spelling, and that in turn was the seed of my anxiety to writing now?

·         Do you believe I was able to capture the scene, so that the audience could create what’s happening in there head’s?

·         Was the dialogue I provided enough to capture what the characters were like?

·         What should I have done differently, or what I should keep expanding on?