Self Assessment #3

1.                   What were your goals for yourself in writing this paper?  To what extent did you reach your goals?

My goals were to completely cover my topic in a way that the reader would be interested enough to read my entire paper, as well as learn and be more aware of how African Americans struggle academically. I feel as if I did reach my goal and did so in a good way.

2.            How did you use your time in developing this paper?  Did you use class opportunities to improve your writing?  Explain.  How did your use of time fit your goals?

At first I focused on creating a strong introduction in order to keep myself from going completely off topic, which is what I used my class time for. I also wanted to find valuable information from all of my sources and not focus too much on one or two sources. Going in I felt as if I picked some great places to do my research and hoped to show that in my paper.

2.                   How did you see your writing changing?  Did you take advantage of the responses from your peers?  Explain how you worked with your peers?

 I definitely considered everything my peers told me during the research. For the most part I agreed with what they said and some of the advice I didn't agree with. I didn't see a change in my writing I kind of still struggle with following through with proofreading.

4.            Who else contributed to your paper’s success?  Explain their role?

My mom, throughout this entire paper I talked with her about everything I've learned and what I am thinking. She would help me think about what kind of information I should look for and how I can use the information I have already found.

5.            What have you learned about yourself as a writer? What did you learn from others?

I learned that writers must be able to adapt to different kinds of writing. Me personally I learned that I do not agree with other peoples critiquing my paper without proof.

6.            What was the hardest part of writing this paper?  Explain.  What was the easiest part? Explain.  Where did you take risks?  Explain.

The hardiest part of this paper was keeping all of your information in line with your thesis and not going off topic. Writing a paper is like a conversation as you add more information you start to see different ways to take the conversation oftentimes you may end up talking about something that has nothing to do with your original topic. The same thing applies to a paper as you add more information you start to venture off into different topics and may forget your main thesis. The easiest part of the paper was finding information, I mean in the 20th century there are many places to finding information about anything so getting information is very easy.

7.            What parts of your paper are you proudest of?  Why?

I am very proud of how I connected my information to the topic and feel as if my paper brings together multiple topics into one cohesive thesis.

8.            What parts of your paper still need improvement?  Why?  How did you attempt to make these improvements before you turned the paper in? 

Well a big problem of mind is that I am too wordy when I write my papers, in my head I think that the extra words help me explain my point better. But when others like my mom reads my paper she just sees it as a waste of words. I feel as if I might have done that in this paper however I don’t know for sure because I think that I used just enough words and find it hard to be as detailed as I want to be without using so many words.

9.            Explain your writing process from brainstorming to now.

 /My writing process was not to complicated I wrote my initial topic down and posted information about different topics, as I started writing the actual paper I began to throw out certain information and add what new information I found to be useful.