Paragraph Analysis

In my class there was an expansive range of diction, creativity and success within the paragraph assignment. Most of the paragraphs possessed unique topics supported with commentary and concrete details that effectively expressed their individual opinions. However, this being said, there were consistent errors within each paper. Transitions seemed to be the most difficult aspect of the piece for my classmates to remember. Without calling people out over a blog, which I find to be a fairly low way of expressing criticism, it can be said that transitive sentences and phrases posed a unique challenge for my peers. Word choice prevailed as another insecurity for the writers of the class. This could have been because of the myriad literary voices in our group. As we are all individuals with distinctive challenges as writers, we express our personality uniquely on paper.

It cannot be fair for me to criticize my fellow comrades without sharing my own weaknesses. In the paragraph assignment I was critiqued for my use of “this supports the thesis”. While personally I find this to be a fine, if analytical, way of portraying my intent, it was mentioned on the rubric. This indicates that my main difficulty as an in-class writer manifests itself in my unwillingness to sacrifice voice in order to conform to the assignment given.

My weaknesses, as well as those of my peers, pose a unique opportunity for individual improvement. We as students can take advantage of each failure we weather and improve our technique and quality of writing. For those who rose to the top of the class during this assignment, and for those who feel they did not do their best, we all eventually find ourselves on the same level: individually talented and challenged students with continual prospects of self and literary improvement.