☼ Paula ☼

This period was kinda heavy because we learnt how to write longer paragraphs and papers. I learnt about plagiarism while paraphrasing. I also learnt that all knowledge we have acquired from past periods will be helpful when writing. I'm talking about the pre-writing part we once learnt, the outline and all that. Everything has been useful and has helped us to make ever better projects. I chose the expository paragraph as evidence because I wrote about something I already know about. I acquired information about the topic (which as "Study Tours") and shared my experience. I also gathered information before writing everything down to make sure to get a good definition about my topic. I also chose my Research Paper about "Pollution" because it has been one of the longest papers I've ever written and followed some tips I found to success. I felt a little bit more free about choosing our own topics and by defining them they way I wanted. It wasn't easy at first but all I needed was to read my notes in the book or maybe ask for help if needed. I also liked how the teacher asked for our projects because she gave us time to think about the topic, to do the pre-writing and outline and finally, to define it. So I think this period was more interesting and creative for me. I think I should need to ask for tips whenever I get confused about something. It's always good to have a second opinion besides yours. I also hope I can keep my creativity to keep writing good works and to help me develop the topic as much as I could.

Second Period Evidence: Research Paper.

Second Period Evidence: Expository Paragraph.

Second Period Evidence: Paraphrasing.

First Period The activity I liked the most was the first one we did about the writing process. We were able to choose our topic (I chose "food") and we had to make the whole brainstorming, listing and clustering. It was the first time we were closer to learn what writing is about and that's what I chose it. I like the fact that it was up to us to chose our topic and make the whole process of it, besides it was easy and interesting while we were learning so I actually liked everything about it. This exercise helped us to understand the topic and to practice it. I think it was easy for most of us because we had the chance to choose a cool topic so it wasn't boring. This could be use maybe in a future teamwork or for writing an essay.