Post 13

Through out my time in the writing center I have learned a lot, not only in my writing but in other peoples writing. First thing that I noticed about myself is that if I am not focus or not really reading the sentence I will read words that are not there and miss that the person has not actually written it. Another thing for myself is that now in my writing I do not use "this" or "that" I explain what this is. Like if I were to say "this is really important" I now say "it is important that we all take time to proof read." I am still working on this but the use of a comma I have become very familiar with and know how to use properly. After my time in the writing center I really do feel like I have become a better writer just because I have been able to pick up on little things I do that I did not notice and I able to stop myself and fix it. I also feel pretty amazing about my ability to revise a persons paper, going to be honest not going to find everything wrong with it but I can help out and make a difference. At the begging of the semester I was scared to revive a paper but now if someone were to ask me or I had to do it in class I feel a lot more confidant about it.

Post 12

I have one more week left in the writing center. Though this week in the writing center I helped on thesis statement this girl had; it was 32 pages long. The only thing we did with it though was reread it to check for grammar error and just a fresh pair of eyes. This helped me out a lot because what I learned about myself is that even though the words are not there I tend to think they are and miss in their paper that the word is missing. Example: a sentence my read "I went to the store, and milk." but to me I will sometimes read it as "I went to the store, and got milk" even though "got" is not there. So for me how to fix that is slow down and take my time.

For my final portfolio the things I need to work on are revision strategies, sentence-level revision, active or passive voice, and plain and simple not being lazy and waiting for the last minute to write a paper.