Assignment #15

I've learned a lot as writer through my writing 101 class. I've learned things such as organizing papers better, creating strong thesis statements, avoiding sentence fragments, and adding specific details and examples to help support my claims. I liked this class overall because it helped me improve in areas that I was having trouble in. My previous writing classes would just just assign an essay and a rubric in hopes that the students would accomplish what the teacher asked of them. On the other hand, in this course I liked how we wrote drafts, pier reviewed them, and then had the final draft due a couple days after. I like this because with a rough draft you can build, add, take out, and prefect your paper with your classmates. It was also nice that we had a chance to read other peoples papers so we had a feel of what our own paper is supposed to look like. Overall, this course has helped me immensely on becoming a better writer in general. I've learned different ways and techniques to make my papers better overall. I've also gotten a chance to read some of my piers amazing essays. Something I really likes about his course was that we got a chance to write a draft before our final paper was due. I think that helped me the most because my drafts have never been all that. It usually takes me a couple drafts to really perfect my papers so that I feel like they are fully complete and ready to hand in.

Assignment #14

For my portfolio I chose to revise my writing process essay. I chose this one because it's an essay that was personal to me so which ever way i choose to revise it, it will be stronger. My strengths of this essay were that i added a lot of specific and personal detail and my weakness was my conclusion. I say this because I think i could have summed everything up in a better way that was more appealing to the reader. To effectively revise my essay I will go through each paragraph to make sure it relates back to my thesis and makes sense.

Assignment #13

I analyzed Malikas essay, in her essay she used a straight forward approach to grab the readers attention right away. She was arguing that teenagers should not get tattoos at such early ages. This will then lead to problems in the future such as your own kids wanting tattoos or even being prevented form being hired at a job because of a tattoo. This thought me that I should use a straight forward approach to really get the attention of my reader. It also thought me that I should use specific examples to get my point across.

Assignment #12

• The strongest evidence is my claim that everyone should live a healthy lifestyle because it leads to a happy more bright future. It's strong evidence because it pertains to everyone. Everyone wants to be healthy and fit. Health and fitness are the two most important aspects of a brighter future. Since my claim is good I'm going to come back to it multiple times during the course of my paper.
• My weakest evidence is my rebuttal which would be its not easy to live a healthy lifestyle.Most people now a days are lazy and don't have time to make healthy food or exercise properly. I will strengthen this part of my essay by telling the reader that you live a longer life if you stay healthy. I mean no one wants to live to only 25 I'm sure. You control what you eat so your health is on you.