Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Judgment

If I were a judge for the portfolios that our class will have to write at the end of the semester I would look for many different aspects to writing in each essay. In each portfolio I would look for content, grammar, ideas, organization, sentence fluency, and how each of them was applied to the paper. I would also like to see the effort put into the papers. I hate when the reader of the paper can tell just by looking at it or by just barely skimming through it that the author rushed their work and research. Also when authors obviously had no honest connection and interpretation of their topics and ideas for their papers. Why I should even waste my time reading it if the author cares about their work less than I do. That goes not only for just each paper but also the entire portfolio presentation can mean a lot. Something quiet important to me but may or may not be as important to all people when they read essays, is the voice of the paper. Now, I understand that some papers can be very difficult to bring to life but, honestly I feel a writer who can give even the most boring topic a life of its own is an amazing author. By creating a relationship between the reader and the topic, writers who make voice a top priority in their work would shock me as a judge. Having an audience to read papers is just as important as writing them. So it is vital to appropriately utilize resources and research to more so explain and give background to your topics so that there is just a natural connection between the reader and the essay.

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