Nick's Portfolio

     As I get older, I obviously plan to get better and better as a writer. So, I have set some mental goals to improve as a writer. I plan on working really hard to improve the flow of my papers. It's important that our readers can read our papers easily without feeling confused. I've always gotten frustrated when I read papers and I can't understand the point of the paper because the writer didn't have a good organization or transition. It makes the paper feel kind of stuffy and repetitive. It relaxes the brain to read a good 'ole well-written paper that flows well and is easy to read. It relaxes my brain in a way.      Hopefully next year my teachers will be as helpful as Dr. D has been this year. I need their help to help me improve my writing skills and to reach my goals. I plan on reaching my goals by working on transition words and how to structure my sentences well. I'll also try my hardest to make every piece of my writing individual. Whether I a...

     As I read the comments on my research paper and my literary analysis, I really need to work on organization, transition, and repetition. On my research paper, I didn't specifically do well on organizing my three main points of my thesis and they didn't flow into each other particularly well. They kind of all complimented each other, so when I was explaining my reasoning, it got really repetitive. On my personal narrative, I struggled with the same things. I had an informal voice when I tried to transition from paragraph to paragraph, and my starting sentences got repetitive.      It is very important that I work on all three of these things as I grow as a writer. Whether I like it or not, flow, organization, transition, etc. are all important to help the reader read what you are saying without struggling and getting confused. Because you can have some great ideas, but if your reader can't understand what you are trying to say, then it will be hard to...

     I may not be the world's best writer, but I'd say I'm not say bad either. I am a writer who loves to write, but I also have my strengths and my weaknesses. I do well with using quotes and contextual evidence to support my claims. I am also good at choosing good and complex words to write juicy papers. This year I've become really good at doing things like embedding my quotes and having good sentence fluency, yet I sometimes struggle with multiple things.      I am a writer who is not so good at using vivid detail and concrete detail, which I learned in my personal narrative. I am not so good at making the reader feel as if they are at the moment I am writing about. I tried hard to work on that throughout my paper, but I just couldn't get the hang of it. I could never really reach that level of intense detail, and that is one thing I plan to improve on. Overall, I am a writer who has improved a lot over the course of a year. But, I don't plan on stopp...

     Over the course of this year, I've learned a lot about myself as a writer. Through the research paper, literary analysis, and my personal narrative, I've really learned a lot. I find myself to be, surprisingly, a good writer. As Dr. D once commented on my post, she said I have a very good, academic voice. I can write about topics and use quotations and examples to back up what I say all while using a professional and reasonable voice. I've really learned that I am good at communicating with my readers and reaching them.      I've improved in multiple ways thanks to my English teacher's help, but a few improvements especially stand out to me. I have improved my work with quotations and reaching my readers on a new, more complex level. Using quotes helps my reader understand what I am talking about more through textual evidence and bringing my writing to life. Whether I am quoting text in a literary analysis or quoting something I heard someone actuall...