My Paper

The Writing Process

Over the time of creating this essay, I learned more about my family than I had before. It was difficult to put what I learnt into an essay; there wasn’t a lot of good information I gathered. I had to use the information I got which was not a lot and use any information I knew to try something. I was able to construct an essay talking about how my family got to Canada, and where they were originally from. I interviewed my mom to learn more about her side of the family and put the information I gathered throughout the ‘Where I’m from’ essay I made. I enjoyed getting to learn more about my family. Since visiting Italy over the summer, I was also able to see where my grandparents were from and see where they lived. Overall, this essay was a good learning experience to learn more of where I’m from at least on my moms side.

Core Competency Reflection

–My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include starting off with making a list of questions for when interviewing my mom. And when all questions are answered, I would be able to start a draft with any information gathered.

–I show that I value feedback from others in my group by listening to what they said needed to be fixed, and tried my best to do so. I added and fixed anything they said should be done after they evaluated my draft copy before I handed in my final copy.

–I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is shown throughout the essay I have written. I have met a lot of the criteria, even though some parts are not as well done, I was able to use the criteria to improve my work and get a good finished product.

–I remain open minded as I explore viable options or alternative approaches, like when I was writing the essay. I tried different ways of writing throughout my essay, I tried alternate approaches and went with the best that would fit with what I had.

A goal I would have going forward would be to try and go through any essays I write and make sure it’s well done. I appreciate feedback on any work such as an essay like this one. And prefer it comes in the form of a paper with written ideas of what could be added or improved. It’s useful to get feedback so you can understand what you may need to work on, and that is a goal I am hoping to improve on more. I’ll try to achieve this goal by getting feedback from family, friends or anyone that is able to help on future essays to hopefully improve what needs to be.