" Review of Literacy Narrative"

     There are many mistakes in the paper that I see now that I did not pay attention to before I turned the paper in like transitions between paragraphs, making sure I stayed in the correct tense, making sure that my grammar was correct, but I would have also went into more detail with my stories. I made myself a copy of my paper before I turned it in. When I looked back at my paper, I realized that some of my smallest mistakes, I missed but they made a significant difference in my paper when I read it. Especially the details that I had left out in some of my stories which would have made them more interesting.

     Sometimes during transitions, I do not know the particular word that needs to be used. There are many transition words that a person can use like, first, second, third, then, in conclusion, etc, but these words are simple and I do not think that they are appropriate in a higher English course. That is what I have been taught. Especially during senior year when we were writing our research papers. In many cases, the teacher would tell me to use different transitions at the beginnings of my paragraphs because they were too simple and I never understood what to use and how to use transition words. I never use first, second, third, next, or then to transition. I may use now ever so often, but it is only when I have to. Now, I take what I was explaining or describing in the last sentence of the paragraph before, and apply it or try to connect it with the paragraph I am working on, so that it stays on subject and flows throughout the paper smoothly, and if I do that, I will hopefully succeed in good transitions between paragraphs. 

     Another thing that I had issues with was staying in the same tense. I do not have a lot of trouble with this all the time, but I will slip into a different tense without even noticing that I did, and then slip back into the correct tense. Even when I go back to read it, I still do not see the mistake sometimes. I need to learn how to proofread my paper better, and as I'm reading be able to notice that it does not sound correct when I do slip in and out of different tenses.

     I also needed to add more details to my stories. I felt that I could have specified more on certain ones so that the reader could understand and feel more from my stories. I needed to show more, not tell. I tried to apply that in my experiences, but I have trouble going into details about things that I really can not remember. The younger stories that impacted me the most, I only know the basics of those, which is understandable. The ones that I did not specify on that happened when I was much older and could remember a lot of the details, I should have put more into those stories to fill them out, and I should have told more stories in general because I have many stories. I held back a lot in that department for some reason.