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Last year in English, whenever we wrote paragraphs and essays, it was always written with Jane Schaffer method. The method for a paragraph consists (in order) of a topic sentence, concrete detail, two commentaries, and a concluding sentence. This year, however, we were told to forget about it. Being so used to the method, I wasn�t sure exactly of how to make up my paragraphs and how long they should be. Nevertheless, I promptly stopped writing in that format, in fear of getting a worse grade than of what I�d get if I hadn�t written with the Schaffer method.
Unlike my freshman year where I wasn�t used to the level of difficulty that came with Pre-AP English, I quickly grew accustomed to it my sophomore year. Coming back from a month-long summer break, I knew that of course, the work in Pre-AP English 10 was going to be a lot more strenuous than that of English 9. And it was; though there weren�t as many timed writes as last year, the process papers and research paper made up for it. Long nights of cramming and writing rough or final drafts proved to be uneventful. I found it to be a lot easier to do that last year, but just couldn�t do it anymore this year.
Until this year, I hadn�t really thought about why they called process papers the way they did; they involved an actual process or steps in order to fulfill that assignment. I used to completely skip the rough drafts and go straight to writing the final draft. This didn�t help, because I wasn�t able to benefit from the evaluation of my peers, and I also wasn�t able to correct any mistakes on the rough draft so that I wouldn�t do the same for the final draft.
This year, I learned how to identify different styles of writing such as diction or sentence structure. With this newly acquired knowledge, I was able to analyze various pieces of writing and write essays on them. Though I understood what the prompts for timed writes and essays were about, I had difficulty in figuring out how to put it down on paper. This is one of my weakness, and plan on fixing this in the future.
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