To start off I feel that I am a decent writer. I feel I have good transitions and my ideas seem logical. However I do have some problems. Firstly, I feel that my introduction paragraphs and concluding paragraphs are weak at best. Also as I have so many ideas flowing through my head I tend to jump around which will work when talking, but when with writing its all over the place. When I write I choose to do little pre-write, which may not be the best idea with my problem of jumping around from topic to topic. All in all I feel I am a decent writer with a few flaws.

My goals for the semester where to better integrate quotes and have better introduction and concluding paragraphs. As I have always struggled with integrated quotes and concluding and introduction paragraphs, setting them as my goals was only natural. One major place I feel I accomplished or at least tried to accomplish my goals was in my controversial issue essay, with my concluding pargraph that also integrated a quote: “I strongly feel that the government should not interfere with personal freedom of choice however your feelings towards this really come down to your personal feelings about a governments role. Lastly I would like to use a quote by Samuel Smiles in his article Self-Help and Thrift “..and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.” In this paragraph not only did I make a decent concluding paragraph but I also integrated a quote.

I feel I have improved almost all of my essays in my portfolio. For instance in my character paragraph I added a clearer point and I tried to add more background so that it would make more sense to someone who had not read the book. However I feel that the book I chose had little character development making this essay extremely hard to do and all in all I feel it was a failure because it was not well written and I could only revise it so much. Continuing on I feel that I did improve my Winston paragraph. Again I used your suggestions and some from my peers to help clarify my point that Winston had excepted death and that it helped fuel his rebellious actions, I feel that my essay adequately sold that point, and I feel the essay was, in all, successful.

My new essays I feel are better than my previous. My personal favorite is my persuasive essay as I feel I showed my argument well and substantiated it with facts. My conversacolor essay is decent but I am a tad nervous as unlike the persuasive essay I have had no peer editing leaving possible errors and confusing bits but I hope I did show the reader the reason that Oceania bans diaries.

I feel my portfolio as a whole represents my strengths and weaknesses, and my best effort. I feel I have semi-accomplished my goals as there is still lots of room for improvement. One goal I hope to accomplish in the future is organizing my thoughts in a more logical manner. All in all I feel my work for this portfolio deserves a B. I choose this because I have never failed to meet a deadline this semester I have set good goals for my self not to broad or specific and I feel I have grown as a writer although not as much as I would like too.