Most Important Skill

       By far, the most important thing I've learned so far in class this year is TWIST.  It's a really simple concept, but it takes more than just memorization to figure it out.  I found myself struggling at first on understanding it, but it eventually just finds its way into your head until you just know it.  It really helped me in recreational and educational ways.  Recreationally, when I'm reading a book for fun, I can use TWIST to uncover the story in ways I would never have done before and learn new things.  Educationally, I can use TWIST in reports to make them more in-depth and understandable, and more importantly, show that I knew how to interpret how the book was meant to be interpreted.
       I definitely enjoyed learning TWIST and I'm excited to see what the rest of the year has in store for me. :)

5 Part Paragraphs

       I personally thought the five part paragraphs were pretty hard at first, but they got easier to do the more you wrote.  I think the same goes for mistakes, one can lead to another and then another.  To write a "good" paragraph I think plot summary should be appropriate so its not too much or too little.  Also, I've seen tons of punctuation errors on the papers and that could be fixed by a couple extra read throughs of the paper.  Also, I noticed embedding the quotes was a little tricky for some classmates because they would put the commentary before the quote and rearrange everything.  I found plot summary to be tricky, because I didn't know whether or not to add more or less, it confused me.
       For my next paragraph, I hope to improve on many different aspects of writing.  For example, sometimes I feel like I ramble on when I write, and I can't do that because keeping focused is important.  My punctuation isn't pitch perfect either, and quotation marks and embedding quotes confuse me so I don't know where to put the periods and everything else.  I hope my next paragraph will be better and I will use this blog post as a reference for the future.  Yeah, that's about it...