I am a pretty proficient reader. I understand all the pieces assigned for class. For example, when I read “Janus,” I picked up pretty quickly that Andrea was cheating on her husband. Also, I’ve done a nice job on the active reading assignments for The Tribes of Palos Verdes. My answers were all to the point and insightful. This was especially true for the active reading assignment about the mother. My best point I had about the mother’s flaws was that is controlling even with Jim. This is a hard idea see, but I picked it out nicely. My biggest weakness as a reader is that I don’t annotate nearly enough. I have a hard time marking passages and such while still paying attention to the story. My The Tribes of Palos Verdes book is hardly marked at all because I got lost in the reading. My long term goal as a reader is to annotate much more frequently. I’d like to try to make at least one point and an underline per page.…show more content… I am now writing strong 3.5’s with good signal phrases. Last year I never used a proper signal phrase. I didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to be a full sentence. All my 3.5’s now have proper starts to quotes such as “Comer said this of Medina’s surfing.” The weakest part of my writing is my analyses. I need to delve deeper and add more insight. I never really flesh out my ideas enough. My A Good Story 3.5 is a great example of this. Here I talk about the mom being a critic very briefly. In about 2 sentences. This was an idea that really could have been dug out a little more. My long term goal as a writer is to increase the quality of my analyses. I will do this by having them be at least 7 sentences. This will force me to explain my ideas
