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Reflective Commentary

Brother Tom

     I think this composition is pretty good. I think it was the best one I did this marking period. I feel that I wrote a pretty good beginning, middle, and end. My conclusions were a lot better then the first marking period. That is what I said I would try to fix in the first marking period and I did. Another thing is that I feel is that I got my writing requirements done spread out and not just in the middle. That was another thing I focused on in the first marking period.

     I feel that the part that gave me the most trouble are my beginnings. It took me a couple of minutes to think of what the first sentence was going to be even though I knew what the story was about. For example is I couldn’t wait because my brother Tom was going to play in his first ever NFL game and I had front row seats. That took me a while and it wasn’t that good. I feel that I need to put a lot of detail in the first paragraph for it to be good and feel I didn’t do that.

     In order to make that part better I think I could take a little more time to think of the first sentence and I could try to take a little more time to think about what the story is about so I have a better idea of what it about not just a thought so I can add more details because having a lot of detail is important and I like to introduce the characters and I want whoever reads my story to know what it’s going to be about in the first paragraph. I feel that is important. I feel that adding detail is really important and is one of the most important things to do for the story to be.

     I think I did better in My Best Birthday composition. I think I had a better beginning paragraph. An example is My name is Marc and this is my wife Jan. I think that introduces a couple of the main characters and I think that is a better way to start it then to just to in the middle of something. So when a character might originally be introduced in the middle you would know who we was already and you can read it a lot better. I feel that I had more detail and as I said before I feel that having a lot of detail is really important and it decides if the story is going to be good or not.

     One thing that I like in my writing is my middle paragraph. I feel that I use a lot of details and explain everything really good and introduce everything I need to. I feel that I have just the right information and not other things that I don’t need to use. Another thing that I like about my writing are my writing requirements. I feel that I take my time and come up with a couple of good one’s. To me alliteration are sometimes tough to think of so even though there not the great they are pretty good. Another thing that I feel that I am doing good are my conclusions. In the first marking period they were really bad and I have gotten a lot better at them so even though they are not great I have made a lot of progress so in a way I think it is really good.

     I don’t really consider myself as a writer. I don’t like to write so most of the time it is not that good but over the last couple of months I feel that I have improved in many things like my writing requirements, beginning, middle, and end. I feel that I have included more detail and I have been doing a lot better as of late and at the rate I a going I think by the end of the year my writing will be a lot better. I said above in this paragraph that I have included a lot more detail and as I have said throughout this reflective commentary I feel that including detail is really important and can decide if the story is good and I think I did OK not that good in it but better then a couple of other ones.

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