Suprisingly Original...I Think

Zoe- hits and misses Julia- Hits and Misses

One of my strengths as a writer is definitely tone and genre. I feel like I have really developed my own style, and my writing definitely has its own unique voice. This year, I have worked specifically on my writing style, and making my writing sound fresh and unique by avoiding cliches. Additionally, through the world history research paper, I was able to develop my use of citing sources to support claims. The literary analysis helped me with that as well. Some of my weaknesses are purpose and the writing process. I could definitely make more meaningful revisions and spend more time revising my writing. Additionally, I need to find purpose in everything I write and not just write things because they are assigned. Even if I don't really want to write about the topic, I need to make it come across as interesting for the reader.

I felt like my one-hundred word story was a definite hit. I really enjoyed writing it and spent a lot of time on it. I am really proud of that piece and still think it's some of my best writing to date. I also felt my research project paper was very strong. I really spent a lot of time editing and revising that paper, and I felt I learned a lot about using sources to support my points. A lot of my poems that I wrote this year were very good. I really spent a lot of time this year revising my style and developing my poetry. I felt my personal narrative was a bit of a miss. It was fine, but I could have definitely revised it more and made it stronger. A lot of my reading responses were misses, just because I struggled to find a purpose and direction while writing those. Some of my free-posts were misses as well, because I didn't really know what to write about and ended up just finding a random topic and going with it. I feel like those posts could have been better if I fou