Overall, all the pages for the notes assigned contained something that was useful. Right from the beginning our reading explained to us that there were two major purposes for written assignments and laid them out in detail. As students, we typically complain when given a paper to type or maybe even the blogs we do and we question "what's even the point of this?" Well the textbook tells us once and for all! The most useful thing I found in the textbook was the "Four kinds of papers you might write" section that walked through each of the four types of papers (which I'm sure we'll be assigned very soon) and explained to us the purpose, how to successfully complete it, and steps to making it nearly perfect in a way. We learn that the paper is not always for us, the writers, but instead for the readers. So when writing we must forget sometimes about some of our own aspects and gear it towards those reading our papers.
Being that we do take our notes out of official literature textbooks, we see that the citations and internal quotations are perfect. To perfect these things ourselves is just a matter of time and observation. It just takes a bit of patience to go back and read from the textbook for reference or to look online. It will eventually just take time to memorize and adjust to citing and quoting works.
The only thing in which I'm fearful of when it comes to writing papers is length and accuracy. I eventually make my papers long enough but once I stretch out information I tend to get off track or repetitive. I want to fix that and I believe that I can manage to fix that this year through the information I attained from the textbook and refreshers of the things I learned in my previous year of English. I'm very hopeful for my success this year in AP English and the knowledge and experience I hope to gain as well.
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