-Reflection- Mastery Porftolio

Reflection

As I have already mentioned in the introduction I will be demonstrating my development with this reader response. My main aim was to make the reader-response more engaging and informative. I will be using some evidence from both the first draft and the last draft to show the differences between my developments. Now I will focus on different skills while evaluating my reader response.

First of all, I want to start with the impacts of repetition on my reader response. In my reader response, I noticed that I used different phrases which mean the same. “we can see that it is not stable meaning it develops a lot in just a short range of time. I can summarize my view of a perfect world by saying that nothing stays the same and renew according to time's requirements and common sense.” and here is the one from the second draft “Summarizing this view mine all of this can be done by saying that a perfect world would renew according to the time and its requirements as well as common sense.” As you can see, I both changed my word choices and deleted some parts to prevent repetition. So reading the reader’s response wouldn’t bore the reader.

Secondly, I tried to include more quotations from the books and I was more careful with citing in my mastery reader response. “For instance, here is a quotation from the book 'Big Brother is watching you.’ ” and “For instance, ‘Big Brother is watching you.’(3, Orwell)” are some parts from the first and the second draft respectively. After reading my first draft again, I noticed that I didn’t cite this quotation correctly, hence I fixed the citing in the second draft.

For the third part of the reflection, I will be evaluating myself looking at my developments throughout the first unit. First of all, I think that I have improved a lot. I think this is because I got used to reading and thinking in English. The second quarter was busier compared to the first one and I have read various articles. The articles we read in this unit helped me to understand what bias is but more importantly, they helped me how to indicate my ideas better and support them with evidence. I learned how to analyze texts. What I mean by analyzing is understanding the author’s intent in using a specific text feature, phrase, word, etc. As well as observing those choices’ effects on the reader. I believe that learning how to analyze writings helped me write more clearly and understandable since I was more aware of the ways I can express my thoughts.

Moving forward with what I have done to improve my writing. I can say that I mostly did what I have done last quarter. I read more in English, tried speaking in classes as much as I can and used the vocabulary I had learned in class or on online platforms such as Quizlet. I just can say that this quarter was far more challenging than the first quarter. I had more projects about English and the vocabulary in the articles I read got more complex as time went by. Therefore, I needed to dedicate more time to improving my vocabulary and writing skills to fulfill the requirements of being a good writer. In conclusion, I have developed a lot as a writer throughout the second quarter.