Writing+Self+Evaluation

Writing Self Evaluation Name:

Scene Character Sketch Day in the Life Point of View Story Graphic Story SettingThumbnails 1. 2. 3. Individual Writing (from when everyone was doing their own thing)

Skit Lost/Found Self Consciousness Do you have anything else in your portfolio? What is it?

1. On the check list above, cross out any that are not applicable to you. 2. Circle any that are missing from your file. 3. Write a phrase by each that describes the content of that piece. 4. Write a number from 1 to 10 to the left of each item on the check list indicating how satisfied you are with each piece you’ve done. 5. Which piece came the most easily? Why?

6. For which piece did you have to work the hardest? Why?

7. Which has the most energy? Why?

8. Choose your favorite line from one of your pieces and write it here:

9. Which pieces helped you discover something new about yourself? What did you discover?

10. Which made you think the most? 11. Which made you feel the most? 12. When you look at all of your writing as pieces of the same story—your story—what themes, patterns or connections do you see?

13. Of which piece are you the proudest? Why?

14. Which piece did you feel most successful revising? Why?

Revision – as in re-envisioning your writing. 15. Choose 3 of your pieces and rewrite each so that it becomes a 7 liner. This is not meant to be a summary of the original; it should stand on its own. Think of it as a chance to revisit the subject matter and see how a change in format (7-liner) and a change in perspective (you now instead of you when you last wrote about this subject) affects the way the story is told. If you would like to focus your 7-liner of a part of the story, that is fine. Attach your 7-liners on a separate sheet. 16. Choose 1 of your pieces and describe how you would have developed it, if you had all the time you needed.

Mechanics 17. What types of mechanical errors did you commonly make early in the year? Circle them.

capitalization punctuation quotations run on sentences sentence fragments extra commas missing commas paragraph breaks indenting consistent verb tense subject/verb agreement spelling wrong word dropped word other (specify)

19. How about now? Have you improved? If so, what has helped? If not, what do you think would help, moving forward from here? 20. Put a star next to the ones that still give you trouble.

Looking Ahead 21. What goals do you have as a writer?