How does the author feel about her writing abilities? The author felt that her writing wasn’t good enough. She always thought she was a good writer and had high hopes because math and English was her most best subjects in school. Until her proficiency test results, she was really disappointed by failing by a half of a point. The results really made Nichols question her writing abilities. According to the text the author states ” I felt like a failure. I had disappointed my family and seriously let myself down. Worst of all, I still couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong”. The proficiency test made her feel like a failure and someone who isn’t good at writing doubting her own writing abilities at a young age.
How does the author feel about standardized tests? The author feels like standardized tests are challenging. She felt like the people who graded the proficiency tests didn’t know about good writing. According to the text, paragraph 4 it states “This experience showed me just how differently my writing could be judged by various readers.” The author was doubting her writing abilities because of the proficiency tests she had took in the eighth grade and it really discouraged her as a writer.
Has there been a time in your life when you doubted your abilities as a writer or in general? Explain. There was this one time in elementary school when I doubted my abilities as a writer. I was in class and we had to begin a draft for an extended essay about a country that the teacher had chosen. I finally finished my draft and I handed it in. I received a 65. I was so sad because I felt like I did good. At least a 85. A grade I had so familiar in writing. Turns out it was my grammar and spelling. My careless mistakes of punctuation. I revised it and received a higher grade. Better than a 65.
How do you feel about your writing abilities? My writing abilities I can say are basic. I know the basics of writing and how to write a good essay using evidence from the text. Informative essays are my favorite because I love to inform. I feel like I can become a better writer
2 thoughts on “Analis Ponce, Conversation 1”
hello Analis , I understand you how you felt when you saw the result of your draft, it has happened to me and it is a bitter feeling and even more so when you know that you did your best . But the important is that you had the opportunity to look at it again and was able to corrected the errors that not let you get a higher grade. I always say that to learn from our experience is a positive point to our life , and that each failure is a lesson !
I totally understand how you felt when you wrote your draft and you felt confident that you did well and when you got your score back and turns out you got a 65, this has happened to me a couple of times in English class while I was in Highschool it happen in my writing projects and in my exams. But we learn that there is always a growth of area that we have in writing and we can always become better. When it comes to writing in English I suck at it sadly because I love to write more in Spanish, so you can imagine the frustration you have when you’re actually confident and think you actually are going to get a good score and then that doesn’t happen.