Artifacts:

Curricular Response

Explain how you chose your writing goal and how you focused on it to improve your writing of the Get Out literary paragraph.

I chose this writing goal because there were a few times in my previous paragraphs where I did not reconnect the examples I provided back to the overall theme. In this paragraph, I made sure to focus on including additional sentences that further explained my examples. This would include the times were I pinpointed how certain scenes were related to the filmmaker’s theme of cultural appropriation within society. The feedback I received on my draft helped me to see the areas of my paragraphs that needed more detail. I felt that this made my paragraph a more understandable piece altogether.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

How did you act on the feedback from your first and second paragraphs in writing this one?

I acted on the feedback I received from the first two paragraphs by reconnecting my examples to the theme and by making a greater effort to prune my paragraph. I was able to prune by cutting down phrases into words that had an equivalent meaning. This was followed by including details on how my examples reconnected to the theme of combatting racism that I observed in the film. All I had to do was check if I was using proper grammar to make my paragraph structurally sound. The feedback allowed my paragraph to flow better in the end, while still maintaining what I was trying to say with each example.