My Favorite Paper

The paper I enjoyed writing the most, which in turn is my favorite, is my literacy narrative paper. Writing the paper really brought me back to my childhood and memories of absolutely hating anything that relates to writing or reading. This was my favorite because I was able to write it in 1^st person perspective and I enjoy writing that way since it seems a lot more natural to me. This was also the easiest for me to write since I didn’t have to do any research on a topic or have to follow too many guidelines; it was just a paper where I could write my thoughts and experiences on paper without being too restricted in the manner in which I wrote it in.

I am mainly thinking about using this paper for my portfolio because it is one of the only papers I enjoyed writing this year. It wasn’t too restricted as stated above, and it was enjoyable because I got to think back to those old memories where I was too stubborn to do anything that related with school and writing. 

Analyzing

When I analyzed my peer’s essay, I got a lot of great ideas to put into my own paper. I started to put more specific information towards my essay and not be so choppy with my sentence transitions. His essay flowed freely without having to have that awkward transition between sentences, I then used this information that I had read and applied it to my own essay. I believe that this greatly strengthened my paper and I was very glad that I got to analyze his essay.

Another thing I learned from analyzing another peer’s paper is that having filler words don’t really look that great. It makes the paper seem redundant and repetitive and overall doesn’t make for a good college level paper.

The last thing I learned is how to identify my topic. I knew what my topic was, but it didn’t really stand out to a reader that didn’t know what I was doing with the paper and exactly what I wanted to portray in the paper. 

Peer Review

As a peer reviewer I feel like I don’t qualify enough to judge someone’s paper, I’m not the best writer in the world nor do I even think of myself as a good one either. This is why I have a hard time to peer reviewing someone’s paper; I still try my best to help them out though. Most of the time I just fix certain words in the essay that doesn’t flow well with the rest of the sentences, I fix spelling errors, and punctuation errors.

As the person who get peer reviewed, I like the criticism I get and the corrections I get from my peers. In the beginning I felt that the person who was peer reviewing my paper had no grounds to say anything bad about my paper, that he did not have the authority to say anything bad about another person’s paper, but I eventually opened up to the idea of active criticism and I now enjoy it and actually love the idea of it. 

Writing Errors

One of my prominent writing errors is my transition from one topic to another. They are extremely abrupt and don’t build up to the transition. This makes my essays seem very unorganized and abrupt. Another error I make is using word fillers; I use a lot of words that could be summed up in one or two words. I do this because I try to fulfill the page requirements for my essays.