REFLECTION
Throughout the process of this project, I made many changes from draft to draft. After the first draft, I had a decent amount of grammatical mistakes. I was also just trying to get all my thoughts down on paper, so the sentences sounded a bit awkward. From the first draft to the second draft, I made a lot of corrections to the grammatical issues and rephrased some sentences to make them flow more fluently. I also included the reading and writing topics in my second draft as well as finding pictures for them both. The changes I made to the final and portfolio drafts were more content based. I provided specific examples of places I would like to travel to, workout routines, and why football had such an influence on how I workout on a daily basis.
The peer feedback I received was helpful because they pointed out some of the grammatical mistakes I had made. The majority of the feedback from my group on this assignment was positive, so I didn't make too many changes from it; however, they did help me rephrase some of my sentences to make them sound more appealing to the reader.
Seeing the evolution from the rough draft to the portfolio draft made me like my writing process. I like to get all my thoughts and ideas down at one time which gives me a template for my paper. After this, I basically just go through and make minor changes to grammar and structure. This makes the writing of the final draft and portfolio draft tremendously easier and gives me the time to go back over them multiple times before turning them in.
I liked that this assignment gave us the freedom to write about subjects we are truly interested in. I find writing much easier and more enjoyable when these are the circumstances. This brings me to what I didn't like about the assignment. I didn't like the topics of reading and writing. I felt awkward trying to put my ideas onto paper in a way that made sense; however, I learned that I do enjoy to write when it's about something I'm interested in. It's hard for me to initially start writing a new paper, but once I get passed the first few sentences, my thoughts start flowing more fluently.