Reflection on Research Paper

1. Summarize your writing process on this paper, pointing out what you found most difficult, most useful, and least useful.  Is there anything you would do differently next time?  Is there anything you think I should do differently next year in preparing students for this assignment?

I think the outline was very helpful. I basically put all of the paragraphs for my paper within my outline. I used my outline to create my paper. That was the most helpful. I also liked how Dr. D looked over our rough draft and commented because that helped me out a lot. The least helpful was when we trusted our classmates to grade our paper. I tried my best to grade others very detailed, but others didn’t grade my paper as well. I liked how we were in our group for grading our papers, but sometimes it could’ve been better.

2. What feedback did you receive (from peers, me, or anyone else), and how did you respond to it?

I received feedback from my classmates, Dr, D, and my mom. The feedback from my classmates was not great. The two people who graded my paper barely graded my paper. I didn’t think my paper was that great, and I wanted as much feedback as possible. The feedback from Dr. D was helpful because she graded in between the lines and she knew what she and I were talking about. I liked that feedback. My mom was also helpful. She gave me advice on things that could be fixed and that made my paper better.

3. Using the traits of good writing and features of strong research papers, what are the strongest and weakest aspects of your paper?

My paper, I believe was not poorly written. Although to be honest, I didn't write the paper with traits of good writing and features of strong research papers in my mind. I believe my organization could have been better, but it was a very organized paper. Also, word choice could have been stronger, along with my conventions. My sentence fluency, at first, was not very good, but in the final draft, that was one of my best traits. My ideas were great for my topic and they flowed quite nicely. Lastly, my voice in the paper was informative because it's a research paper. I didn't really have much of a voice in the paper, but I hope to have informed people about my topic.

4. Is there anything else you would like me to know as I read your paper?

I hope you like it!