My strengths in my essay probably are including transitions and organization of the To Kill a Mockingbird essay. I was able to achieve this by not only making an outline for my rough draft essay, but I also made three simple brainstorming outlines with three different set-ups for the themes. By doing this, I was able to choose the best one out of the three ensuring a better and improved outline rather than just brainstorming one outline. However, the areas I need to continue to grow and work on are embedding evidence and citations. Although, I've immensely improved on them, by inserting them in a sentence rather than just randomly typing it out word for word after the assertion. I’ve improved because I’m able to correctly embed the evidence in a sentence in order to make my essay flow better. Even though, I have become better at this, at times, I still need some work on it since my embedding can be a bit choppy, instead of it having a nice flow.
Skills that were easy for me was to include transitions because I used some examples that we did when we completed The Cask of Amontillado essay. It definitely gave me huge variety of examples and expanded my knowledge on them, which I can use in future essays. Something that was difficult for me were putting all my ideas onto paper. In my head, I have a lot of ideas, but sometimes it’s very difficult to form them into sentences.
Areas I feel that I need to improve on the most are avoiding writing run-on sentences. I have problems with creating my ideas into sentences that flow. Instead, they become choppy and confusing to read since I often have trouble separating my points into separate sentences. I’m most proud of how I pulled off this essay, and organized my ideas. I frequently struggle with organizing my ideas and giving off relevant ideas. But in all honesty, I feel that the peer critiquing really helped me in stating strong commentary because I was able to have someone else catch my mistakes and try and to understand my train of thought. For instance, an idea I have may make sense in my head, but it may not to others. Therefore, I genuinely feel that I have greatly improved from my previous essay.
