To write an A paper, one needs to understand the errors in content and organization in order to make edits and revisions. The first draft of the essay always contains a number of mistakes to be fixed. As one completes the next assignment, one must review the errors made in previous papers to avoid the same mistakes on the next assignment. For each new assignment, one must prepare to invest more time to ensure not repeating mistakes. When preparing to write, after reading the prompt, one needs to decide what steps one needs to take to best inform the reader. Knowing the previous essay’s errors, one needs to conscientiously make edits to remove such mistakes from the current and next assignment. After writing the essay from last quarter, I received feedback and comments from my teacher, which will help me to take the next step: to make revisions by identifying my strengths and weaknesses so that I will make improvements on future assignments.
Proofreading
can be the most important strategy in helping people can find their
mistakes. In the essay “History and Me” from last quarter, I wrote a
good essay overall, but if I had proofread better, I could have
organized the content and revised the sentence flow in the essay.
Proofreading helps me to find grammar mistakes and to evaluate whether
the essay is focused. Understanding both grammar errors and focus
problems can help me improve the next essay. Overall, the strengths from
my last essay include not having many errors or sentence flow problems.
In the next assignment, I will remember to proofread after writing so
that errors can be minimized. Most mistakes from essays are missed when
writers choose to forgo proofreading; proofreading is a crucial process
that can address major sentence flow problems and grammatical errors.
