Conference+Paper

=**Conference Paper**= At the end of each marking period, you will write a personal review of your writing goals. After perusing your portfolio and looking over the comments you wrote to yourself, you should have enough material to develop a purposeful and honest one page paper about your own writing. This paper will be the focus of our second marking period conference. Also, this paper will serve as your own agenda for improving your writing. Due: November 3 Score: Twenty Points
 * Please include your name on this paper so that I can immediately start conferences.

=What to include?= Identify your own bad habits when it comes to paper preparation. Discuss how you have begun to change those tendencies. Discuss tricks you have found useful. Estimate, realistically, how much time it takes for you to earn an A. What areas of your writing have changed the most? What does it take to earn an A (the first time) on a paper. Identify areas of writing that you believe need more practice. Suggest activities or papers that you believe will help you reach your goal.