Within' the past two weeks or so and it's still on going, we've been reading our five-part paragraphs about TKAM. I have indeed already read mine. While others read, we get to critique each others paragraphs based from the checklists we're given. The critique is both positive and negative. So, for me I thought there was a number of things that the class can work on as a whole. The number one thing though has got to be embedding those quotes. I'm almost positive that over half the class did that wrong. It's not that hard to do, as long as you know what you're doing. I just don't think that people were paying attention close enough to how they were suppose to do it. Another big issue that had also has to do with the quotes but it's when you cite the quote you aren't suppose to include 'pg.' before the actual number which many people did. I think that if we can just get these two skills down, all the papers will seem A LOT better. Oh, and I have one more thing to add. There was a lot of past tense words used in the paragraphs which shouldn't have been there, including mine. Which as long as you proof read your paragraph enough times I think that most people will be able to catch there mistakes next time.
So now for my paper. I know that I had many things wrong with my paper, but I think that I did a pretty good job though for my first time ever writing a paragraph and having it have to be so strict and precise. The main thing that I saw and many others probably also saw was my lack of commentary and having little bits and pieces of plot summary. I think that I should have spent a little more time writing what I really thought about the quotes and not just summarizing what they meant during the section that the quote was in in the book. I'll be very sure to try and clean that up next time. Also, I found that as I stated above, I had a lot of simple proof reading mistakes which I can be sure to catch next time I'm writing another five-part paragraph.
