journal 2

Throughout high school, I never went into true depth on what criteria to follow when writing rough drafts, finally drafts, or even when editing someone else’s draft.  I was more focused on getting a solid draft under my belt to pass in and receive a grade. I only took a true English (writing) course up until sophomore year and then junior and senior year turned into English electives. In my writing course we wrote narratives, persuasive essays, research essays, and also scripts. We would work hard on a topic sentence and filling in our outlines to make the ideas come out smoother and more organized once putting the words into paragraphs. Once we had our rough drafts done, we would share it with someone else in our class. This for me, happened to be a friend of mine so I felt as though my feedback wasn’t accurate. I did a lot of editing on my own, because the feedback I was receiving wasn’t on how to improve, but more on the mistakes I made. i.e. spelling or punctuation errors. I would read over other people’s work and give them idea and questions to maybe spark a new though so they could add more to their writing. Writing to falls in two totally different extremes. The thoughts either come right to me and I begin to type and don’t want to stop, or I get stuck at the first word and hate every sentence I write after that. If that happens, I usually just have to step away and come back to it at a later time. I love to write, but throughout high school I either did one draft and submitted it, or I did maybe one or two peer edits to come up with a solid final draft that in the end I feel much more confident about.