Metacognitive Reflection

Over the course of the first semester, I have improved significantly as a writer. I am now much more confident with my writing skills than I was at the beginning of the year. In order to grow as a writer, I made sure to improve my revising skills on my essays. I had friends and family members check over my essays so I can fix mistakes. An area that I have improved in is my ability to write a a strong thesis statement. My thesis statements answer the prompt completely and are arguable which sets me up for a strong essay. An area that I need further improvement in is my analysis. I struggle with tying my evidence back to my thesis and I plan to improve this by asking for help from my classmates and teacher. An assignment that I am particularly proud of is my Gatsby test short response. I earned an AP score of 5 on this response, which is the highest grade that I have gotten on a writing assignment. In this short response, I was able to construct a strong thesis and I supported it with a variety of evidence. Also, unlike some of my other writing assignments, I was able to provide a decent analysis to prove my argument. In order to perfect my writing skills, I think it would be beneficial for Ms. Nagi to instruct us more on how to improve our analysis. We could go over well-written essays as a class so we can see what a strong analysis looks like. Overall, I am hoping to improve even more as a writer so I can be prepared to be successful on the AP exam.