While critiqing the papers in class, I noticed the more commonly made flaws in the papers were things like one sentence of commentary, the embedding was poor, and sometimes things like the people didn't cite a quote or they were using tedious word choice. There were usually small things like that, and most of the papers were written well and with all the material needed on the checklist. These flukes have taught me the skills to write a good paper. It was nice to see people who had papers with mistakes, because then we could learn from it. For instance, I now know that in a paper, quotes should be in chronological order of the book. I also learned that people like good vocabulary in papers from the comments of the students in class.
With all the good that came from the mistakes of other students, I also learned what kind of stuff I need to work on. One student had commented on how I had poor transitions, and I'm not denying it. I jumped from one topic to the other and I could see it had confused many students while they were reading it. I guess what I need to do to write a better paper is take all the things from the checklist and put them into consideration. I don't like saying this, but for this paper I kind of "winged it". So now, I''m going to look over the checklist and do everything I'm supposed to do, and proofread and not just reword my drafts but actually improve them. If there was a scale of 1-10 for this project based on how well we did on the paper, I'd give myself either a 5 or 6. Its the first 5 part paragraph this year, so I'm not too worried.
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