personal evaluation essay

Matt Williams

Wendy

English 1010

October 1, 2007

Self-Evaluation Essay

My first paper was due on the 25 of September, and was a textual analysis essay, 2000 words. So, to start of my incredibly ingenious process, I chose the most interesting to me, Prime Directive, and read it through. A couple of days later, I start to write the essay, and I sit down and read through the essay again, this time with a pen. I underlined anything that I found interesting, cool, thought-provoking, or that I thought would be useful in explaining what I thought Griffith was trying to say in his essay. After I finished reading it, I started writing, and I wrote about the essay chronologically, as that seemed to me to be the easiest way, since I had underlined different quotes throughout the essay. I gave some explanation of the essay, and as I said what I thought Griffith was saying, I used most of the quotes I’d underlined to highlight what I had said.

I think as a writer I started learning to be more expressive of my own opinions. And I mean started. I doubt I am yet as good and expressive as I need to be. As a reader, I don’t know that I changed a whole lot. I think I have started reading assigned texts more analytically, but probably not a whole lot as of yet. I don’t believe that I changed any as a person, though I might be more aware and more disgusted by the things humans can come up with to torture other humans.

I’m not sure yet what I will do differently next time. I haven’t received my paper yet, so I’m not sure where my mistakes are. I might start a little earlier though. While I didn’t skip my other classes for the sole purpose of writing the essay, I would have had to stay up all night to be able to finish it. So, I won’t under estimate how long it will take me to finish a paper next time.