Mr. Brown,
Thank you for your interest in my writing. My piece I submitted dealt with the influence parental involvement has on a student’s academic success. When composing my piece, I experienced numerous stages of struggle. The first struggle I encountered was choosing a topic for my piece. I wanted a topic that was broad enough to write a well composed piece, but still specific enough to not be too general and focus on a prevalent issue. This topic-phase has always been a week point in my writing process because I try to choose a topic that I am passionate about, but also one that has enough information and relevance to write on. Eventually I decided to choose a topic I was interested in, regardless of the amount of information or relevance it contained because I realized writing a piece is more natural and effective when the writer is fully engaged and enthusiastic about the topic. The next problem I faced while writing my article was putting my thoughts into writing. I usually think about what I am going to write for a long time, but never really transfer my thoughts onto the paper. Finally I decided to write whatever thoughts came to my mind on my paper so I had at least some form of writing to work with. After writing my thoughts on paper, I altered phrases, words, and some ideas so that the piece flowed smoother and adequately conveyed my thoughts.
There were many aspects about my article that I thought I did both well and poor on. I felt like I was able to capture the audiences’ attention with my article because of its format. Instead of using a traditional essay style, I opted for a magazine article look. Since my intended audience was aimed for parents and students, I determined writing an article would gather greater attention and appear more interesting to read than a standard essay format. However, I felt like I needed better supporting evidence to back my claims. I think I should have used a larger range of sources and quotes in my article so it sounded less like my opinions and more like facts and true statements. Another area that I felt needed work was the length of my piece. Overall I thought the piece was sufficient, but adding more detail and explanation to certain ideas would have made the article more complete. I hope you enjoyed my submission and I look forward to working with your writing team.
Thanks,
Jacob Pesek
Thank you for your interest in my writing. My piece I submitted dealt with the influence parental involvement has on a student’s academic success. When composing my piece, I experienced numerous stages of struggle. The first struggle I encountered was choosing a topic for my piece. I wanted a topic that was broad enough to write a well composed piece, but still specific enough to not be too general and focus on a prevalent issue. This topic-phase has always been a week point in my writing process because I try to choose a topic that I am passionate about, but also one that has enough information and relevance to write on. Eventually I decided to choose a topic I was interested in, regardless of the amount of information or relevance it contained because I realized writing a piece is more natural and effective when the writer is fully engaged and enthusiastic about the topic. The next problem I faced while writing my article was putting my thoughts into writing. I usually think about what I am going to write for a long time, but never really transfer my thoughts onto the paper. Finally I decided to write whatever thoughts came to my mind on my paper so I had at least some form of writing to work with. After writing my thoughts on paper, I altered phrases, words, and some ideas so that the piece flowed smoother and adequately conveyed my thoughts.
There were many aspects about my article that I thought I did both well and poor on. I felt like I was able to capture the audiences’ attention with my article because of its format. Instead of using a traditional essay style, I opted for a magazine article look. Since my intended audience was aimed for parents and students, I determined writing an article would gather greater attention and appear more interesting to read than a standard essay format. However, I felt like I needed better supporting evidence to back my claims. I think I should have used a larger range of sources and quotes in my article so it sounded less like my opinions and more like facts and true statements. Another area that I felt needed work was the length of my piece. Overall I thought the piece was sufficient, but adding more detail and explanation to certain ideas would have made the article more complete. I hope you enjoyed my submission and I look forward to working with your writing team.
Thanks,
Jacob Pesek