Hits and Misses

Throughout this year, we have experimented with many different types of writing. We have done personally writing such as the Literacy Narrative, and we have also done more fact writing such as the Research paper. I have enjoyed all of them in different ways, but there is key things within some of these writings that I exceptionally loved or hated.
First, in my literacy narrative, I enjoyed that I got to tell my own story in a paper, and how it affected ME personally. Usually in english class I write in a 3rd person, not allowing me as a writer anywhere in the paper. I enjoyed that I was going into a descriptive manner on many things that I enjoyed about the book, like how I read it, how I may have reacted, or maybe even what I think of reading now. I also enjoyed that throughout the year, Dr. D let us have a free post from time to time. I liked how we got to write anything we wanted and express the way we felt through our blogs. I felt like some of my free posts were my best writings of the year. I'm guessing it's because I got to write what interested me at that time, even though Dr. D's blog outlines were quite interesting.
Some thing that I wasn't very thrilled in writing was the Research Paper. I was very dynamic through this project, because at first I was very excited about my topic, what I could incorporate in my paper, and more. But as time went along, I realized that it wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be, so I lost much interest through the research. I didn't think about how hard it would be to blend everything that I wanted to include in my paper. I also didn't think about the length, because after I finished writing my factual information, I seemed to just keep blabbing about random things that weren't even relevant to my paper. Next, I also thought a major "miss" was when we were reading Lord of the Flies. I thought it was a very interesting book, but when it came to things like symbolism and foreshadowing kinds of things, it began to become very difficult and confusing to me. I try to work on that, but something in my head just doesn't click when we do things on that subject. I just don't understand how you find that, how you see it in the writing, or how you are sure that it's the right thing after you find that out. I hope to improve on this, since it is a major role within all kinds of books.