Magazine Reflection Take DOS!

1. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what improved? How did it get better? Why? I improved in so many things while working in this project. My writing structure improved so much. My writing was not organized and did not make any sense. To me it seems like its perfect, because i wrote it, but when I give it to my peers to critique it I see a lot of organization comments.

2. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what still needs work? What do you think will help you improve? Why? Even thought I'm improving on my organization, I still need to work on it to make it better. This is going to help me improve by getting more critiques. Another thing I still needs wok is my grammar. Something that can make me improve is reading other articles or other peoples writing.

3. Specifically, show us something that improved and describe the path it took to get better. You can quote your article, your drafts, link to evidence, etc. The thing I worked on specifically were my run-on sentence. For example "I am really great full our school has the privilege to have an opportunity to have internships so that we can experience what the real world would be and what the future holds for students." and changed it to " I am very grateful that our school gives us an opportunity to have internships. That way we can experience what the real world will be and what the future holds for students."

4. Describe something specific (or a few things!) that you learned about writing. Something I learned was that the less -ing words possible the better your writing will be. Simplicity is the key to great writing!

Magazine Reflection

1. What went well for you during the process of creating this magazine?
I think that everything went well. I had a lot of critiques from my classmates and teacher, which made it so much better. Another thing that went great was my layout. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to use InDesign, but I did and looks great.

2. What challenges did you face as you moved from an early draft or idea to a final product? One of the challenges that I had was that at first I couldn’t think of what to put in my magazine. I first wanted to use my mentor interview, but thought it was going to be simple. I decided to use my photo essay with a very descriptive introduction.

3. What other examples of work—student and professional—stood out as exemplary and served as a good model for your own work? Something that helped me a lot was looking at magazines. It gave me good ideas for my layout, and gave me ideas for my writing as well. On if the magazines that really helped me was National Geographic and The New Yorker.