1. How does the author feel about her writing abilities?
In the beginning, Shannon felt competent in her writing abilities.Why, because she enjoyed writing, was an outstanding student.Never had a grade below average.Said in the text “Throughout my elementary and middle school years, I was a strong student, always on honor roll.I never had a GPA below 3.0.” Which meant that she was confident in her writing abilities.Until she took a proficiency test that she failed.And tried it again and failed as well.As a result, Shannon felt a sense of failure and shame that she failed. She did everything right but failed. At the end she didn’t like writing nearly as much as she used to.
2. How does the author feel about standardised tests?
She doesn’t like the standardised test because it caused her to fail proficiency tests twice and made her lose her love of writing. She even told her English teacher. According to Shannon, “How can I get A’s in all my English classes but fail the writing test twice?” As a result, she fell into a stage of denial where she could not understand why her English teachers enjoyed reading her essays. In addition, the person who administered the standardised test did not appreciate her writing.
5. Has there been a time in your life when you doubted your abilities as a writer or in general? Explain.
I do not remember at one point in my life doubting my abilities as a writer or in general. The reason for this is because I mostly follow the teacher’s prompts for what to do and what not to do. Perhaps my mind has just hidden my memory, so I cannot recall it at the moment.
6 .How do you feel about your writing abilities?
I consider my writing abilities to be not very proficient because, in my opinion, I don’t write very much.
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Seventy-five words is a lot to comment on something we’ve already written two-hundred words about. I’ve read nearly all of the posts and all of them are about the same. There is not one single post that jumps out at me where I’m like “Oh, I never thought of it like that”; anyways Its hard to come up with anything more to say about an essay that is only one page long besides saying “oh, what a great observation.” or “oh, you really missed the point”. I choose your comment because It got me thinking about doubting my own writing, which I doubt a great deal. Also I didn’t do mine in this format, don’t know if I was supposed to. I need help with my grammar. I’m just going to address you directly now Prof. Barnes. You’re the only one reading this. Does the period go before or after a quotation mark. Also, I need help with formatting dialogue, do you think we will get into that at all? Oh well, I think that should be seventy-five words now