Cited: United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The Taliban’s War against Women. 17 Nov.2001. Web. 21 Nov.2010. Nakyia Carr Prof. Gunderson Elementary Comp. W131, Section # 10361 07 December 2010 Writer’s Statement Before this paper, I had not written many summaries. Summarizing is a weak point for me, because I tend to want to write everything down. Every detail seems like a major point to me and I have a hard time deciding what to leave out. Writing this paper and getting help in class really helped me with my summarizing skills. Another issue I had when writing was deciding when to cite the information and knowing if I had paraphrased or actually put it into my own words. The peer review was a great help to me with this, and I understand paraphrasing much better. I believe the greatest strength of my paper is how I put the information into my own words when I could and did not use too much detail. This was a big deal to me, because like I said before, I am not very good at picking out main points. Putting sentences into my own words has also been a struggle for me but I think I did a good job in this paper. My greatest weakness of the paper was citing the information at the appropriate time. After the peer review, I tried to fix this as much as possible, but I still do not feel completely comfortable that I got everything. I also feel like I left some details out, but that may just be because I think every detail is important. After I have fixed everything, I do not consider this to be a strong paper of mine. I do not think I will choose this for my portfolio but if I decided to, I would write a reflection summary. As a woman, I have many strong feelings about the way women are still being treated around the world. A reflection allows you to talk about how the writing has affected you and this would be a good way to get my feelings out about the Taliban.
Cited: United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The Taliban’s War against Women. 17 Nov.2001. Web. 21 Nov.2010. Nakyia Carr Prof. Gunderson Elementary Comp. W131, Section # 10361 07 December 2010 Writer’s Statement Before this paper, I had not written many summaries. Summarizing is a weak point for me, because I tend to want to write everything down. Every detail seems like a major point to me and I have a hard time deciding what to leave out. Writing this paper and getting help in class really helped me with my summarizing skills. Another issue I had when writing was deciding when to cite the information and knowing if I had paraphrased or actually put it into my own words. The peer review was a great help to me with this, and I understand paraphrasing much better. I believe the greatest strength of my paper is how I put the information into my own words when I could and did not use too much detail. This was a big deal to me, because like I said before, I am not very good at picking out main points. Putting sentences into my own words has also been a struggle for me but I think I did a good job in this paper. My greatest weakness of the paper was citing the information at the appropriate time. After the peer review, I tried to fix this as much as possible, but I still do not feel completely comfortable that I got everything. I also feel like I left some details out, but that may just be because I think every detail is important. After I have fixed everything, I do not consider this to be a strong paper of mine. I do not think I will choose this for my portfolio but if I decided to, I would write a reflection summary. As a woman, I have many strong feelings about the way women are still being treated around the world. A reflection allows you to talk about how the writing has affected you and this would be a good way to get my feelings out about the Taliban.