Curricular Response

I believe that the greatest strength of this paragraph is using evidence to effectively prove my point and answer the question. I think that I did a very good job of drawing my explanations back to my main point by using reoccurring words. Another thing I think I did well was using good transition words to help the whole paragraph flow smoothly. By using these transition words properly I can let readers digest the ideas presented in the paragraph without being bothered by jumpy reading or startling sentence breaks. I also worked hard to properly and fully explain the points I put foreword.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Think about and describe how your experience writing Literary paragraph 1 was different or similar to writing this paragraph. Was one easier? More difficult? Can you explain why?

The “Fido” paragraph was definitely much easier to write. I wrote literary paragraphs last year, but I was rusty so the practice was very valuable for paragraph #2. I also think that #2 was much easier because I understood the point I was trying to put foreword much better. I knew what I was writing in the first paragraph but I more clearly could put together my thoughts into explainable ideas the second time. The feedback given after writing the first literary paragraph was also very helpful when trying to improve upon the first and put together my ideas in the second one. I could more easily understand where to add transition words and a few other points that had to be improved upon.