Metacognition Questions

Culminating Writers Profile
1.  Since the start of this school year, my expectations as a write have been to improve in my vocabulary and to form more complex sentences.  With the out of class essays, i feel i have enough time to revise and improve my essays, but I hope to be able to write as well as i do out of class during a timed write.
2.  Using creative strategies to draw the reader in and anecdotal leads are my strengths as a writer.  There's always room for improvement but I enjoy those aspects of writing so I am better at them then other organizing techniques.
3.  My writing weaknesses are composing a well structured essay under a timed situation.  I can write an okay essay with the amount of time we're given, but i want to write fluently, even when i only have 45 min.

Evaluating Your Writing Process
1.  If I had time to revise my essay one more time, i probably would have talked more about the history of "common sense" and maybe eliminated the quote at the end.
2.  As I received peer feedback, the easiest thing to improve upon was the sentence structure and how to provide more emphasis on my main points.
3.  The biggest problem I had with revising this essay was figuring out ways to remove all of the "to be" verbs and still make the sentence flow.

Evaluating Your Success
1.  My most successful large-scale revision in this essay was my concluding paragraph and taking out all of the "you"s and "we"s.
2.  In my essay, I was able to successfully incorporate descriptive, narrative, and illustrative language through the use of an anecdotal lead.  I feel like i captured the readers attention and drew them in with certain words and emphatic sentences.
3.  My best success considering my audience would have been the use of the story at the beginning and referring back to the story to really solidify my point.

Being Honest With Self
1.  At first, I was intimidated by the prompt because it was something I had never written about before.  I wasn't sure how to organize my essay and really understand how to "define" a term.
2.  From what we read and talked about, I thought using my own personal experience would be a good key element to have.
3.  The example papers that I read used strong examples and stories to define their term and I felt that method really connects with the reader.
4.  I learned a lot of new ways to revise sentences so I wouldn't have as many "to be" verbs.
5.  I definitely see myself as a stronger writer compared to where i was at before I started this course.  I feel more confident in my ability to write in different types of structures, but i still need a lot of work in trying to accomplish what I did after 7 drafts in, say, 3 or 4.