Hello! My name is Monty San Juan and I am currently a Junior at Newark Memorial High School. I also play on the school Varsity Basketball Team. Not only am I an athlete, I also enjoy writing. From the baseline essay to how I am writing now, I feel that I have improved greatly and got more mature as a writer. My writing techniques, my conventions, and my skills have gotten better throughout the course. In the following pages you will find more about different writing pieces and some Articles Of The Week where I write a Response and Summary about recent events that are occurring today. As you read through the pieces realize and take time to see the difference in my writing from when the beginning of the year to the end.
Although we wrote plenty of times in the year, with journals, different essays and Articles of the Week, I would choose the Baseline essay to be my favorite. This one stands out to me because it just shows how I started the year coming back from Summer, and what I was able to do. I used this as a reference as to what I should do different and learn more from this piece. I am most satisfied with my Memoir Essay because I feel that I put the most time and effort into it. I tried my hard to remember all the events that happened, and try to put it on paper. The most challenging essay for me was the Research/Argumentative Essay because of how long it was to write and all the information we had to put together. I am probably least satisfied with my Rhetorical Analysis due to the fact that it was one of my early essays and I have made little improvement from my Baseline.
I think my strengths as a writer is that I write what is on my mind. I go with what I think and don’t change it. I also use what I know and use it to my ability. I add my own style and flair to my writing. As in my Memoir I use conversation and I add my thoughts to the piece. I noticed how my writing used to be plain and my writing convention was not complex. I would use simple sentences and everything would be the same. I didn’t know how to use figurative language or different types of sentences. There was no feeling or effort put into my writing.
Throughout the year I have been growing as a writer. Although I’ve gotten better, I am still improving and working hard to learn new thing and more skills. I need to improve more on my content and sentence structure. I have getting better from the beginning of the year but reading my Memoir, I feel I need to make my sentence structure more complex. As you read my essays and AOW’s, you will see my improvements and what else I need to get better at.
Although we wrote plenty of times in the year, with journals, different essays and Articles of the Week, I would choose the Baseline essay to be my favorite. This one stands out to me because it just shows how I started the year coming back from Summer, and what I was able to do. I used this as a reference as to what I should do different and learn more from this piece. I am most satisfied with my Memoir Essay because I feel that I put the most time and effort into it. I tried my hard to remember all the events that happened, and try to put it on paper. The most challenging essay for me was the Research/Argumentative Essay because of how long it was to write and all the information we had to put together. I am probably least satisfied with my Rhetorical Analysis due to the fact that it was one of my early essays and I have made little improvement from my Baseline.
I think my strengths as a writer is that I write what is on my mind. I go with what I think and don’t change it. I also use what I know and use it to my ability. I add my own style and flair to my writing. As in my Memoir I use conversation and I add my thoughts to the piece. I noticed how my writing used to be plain and my writing convention was not complex. I would use simple sentences and everything would be the same. I didn’t know how to use figurative language or different types of sentences. There was no feeling or effort put into my writing.
Throughout the year I have been growing as a writer. Although I’ve gotten better, I am still improving and working hard to learn new thing and more skills. I need to improve more on my content and sentence structure. I have getting better from the beginning of the year but reading my Memoir, I feel I need to make my sentence structure more complex. As you read my essays and AOW’s, you will see my improvements and what else I need to get better at.