Thursday, March 24, 2011
Blog Entry 7: Reflection and Evaluation
I must say I'm pretty impressed with the way I have been performing in this class even though we havnt been graded on so far I'm pretty positive with my performance. I say this because writing would be the worst subject I would score on during junior highschool on to highschool. I believe I started improving during a speech course I took at BMCC in where i was obilgated to learn to write speeches and essays. In this course I have added more to my knowledge about writing for example identifying an idea in a passage that I feel is important. Flaws that I would like to overcome over this course is to stay more onto the topic and differ between the assignment I am given and what I want to write on the page. I have a problem with staying on topic and tend to drift off during the explanation of a thesis statement. My CAT-W pracrtice exam was about the affect that texting has on our teenagers. I found this article pretty simple because I am a texter and could relate to what the author is stating. I agreed and disagreed with the author on this topic cause there are certain ways to control texting in teenagers. I stated why I agree and disagreed with the author gave reasons why I do and examples from personal experience and experiences of others around me and also used facts from the excerpt to back up my statements.
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ReplyDeleteHi Willy:
ReplyDeleteBelow you will find my response for this blog series. This is not a grade, nor is it intended to be read as an evaluation of your performance in this class so far. The evaluation of the blog series may be found in Blackboard in the gradebook for this class and the grade is derived from a totally dofferent method as described in the syllabus. What you will see below is a response to your overall writing as of this blog series. The categories are from the CAT-W evaluation rubric (what the evaluator’s use). The comments below are intended to be both descriptive (what I see) and prescriptive (what you need to work on). I will be speaking with you personally about your current strengths and weakness during class. Please feel free to ask as many questions as you like about the following in class, during office hours, or in our FB groups.
Critical Response to Writing Task and Text: For this category, I look to see if you summarized effectively thereby demonstrating that you understood the reading/text, that you are actively engaging with the ideas of the text and responding in some way to them. For this category, you are fine but could still use some improvemement.
Development of Writer’s Ideas: This category responds to how well you use reasons to support your claim, how well you use evidence to support your reasons, and how well the reasons work together as a whole. For this category you need more work, particularly in your use of detail?
Structure of the Response: Is it an argument essay? Does it work well as a whole? This category is concerned with the overall structure of your writing--can I see that you had a plan and executed it well.
Sentences, Word Choice, Grammar, Usage, Mechanics: Is your wriitng clear and easy to read? That is what this category is all about. What issues need to be addressed now to improve the overall effect of your writing?
Overall: From this blog series I can see that you have the basics dwon from the first few weeks. You are summarizing the texts, identifying main ideas, responding to them, and you are writing “essays” when asked. Now we will work on argument format for essays and development. You are exactly where you need to be at this point in the class. Keep up the good work!