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The document discusses a student's first narrative essay assignment in an educational research class. It summarizes the feedback received from the professor, Dr. Tuchaai, which helped the student improve word choice, sentence structure, claims without examples, and correct APA citations in future writing assignments.

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Reflection

The document discusses a student's first narrative essay assignment in an educational research class. It summarizes the feedback received from the professor, Dr. Tuchaai, which helped the student improve word choice, sentence structure, claims without examples, and correct APA citations in future writing assignments.

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The first writing assignment that was to be completed in the Educational Research and

Scholarly Writing class was the narrative essay. I focused my essay on an experience that I had
with a student interacting with technology in my English and Language Arts classroom. I
explained my personal experience of integrating technology into an ELA classroom and the
effect it had on a particular student by the name of Daisy. After reflecting on this essay, there
were several aspects of my writing that I learned about and was able to correct due to the
constructive criticism of Dr. Tuchaai.
Before I began correcting any parts of my essay, I read the feedback given by Dr. Tuchaai
and examine the parts of the essay that she may have noticed that had any mistakes or needed
additional corrections. I realized that most of my mistakes were primarily in word choice and the
why that I constructed some of my sentences. Some of the word choice and sentence
arrangement suggestions given by Dr. Tuchaai were very helpful. When I made corrections to my
essay I incorporated several of her suggestions and even deleted some sentences completely. I
realized that some of the statements made in the original essay were too vague and some word
choices, such as prove, were absolute or could have been said differently to express my
thoughts more precisely.
I also discovered in my editing that some of my claims were not supported properly or
that my sources were cited correctly. I make statements claiming that Daisys higher order
thinking skills. Because I failed to incorporate an example of her work or an answer that she
gave in class, it weakened my argument of technology improving students learning ability.
Many of my citations were incorrectly cited within my essay. This was my first attempt at
writing in APA format and I was very unfamiliar at how to reference the sources.

Overall, I enjoyed seeing the progression of my writing in this course. This initial essay
had many mistakes that I was able to learn from in my future submissions. I also enjoyed the
process of revising and editing because it gave me a chance to be critical of my own writing. The
analysis of my own work made me more aware of my word choice as well as how I cite
references in APA formatting.

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