Most Important English Concept

It has seemed like the first quarter of the school year just flew by. A whole sixtenth of my high school career is finished. But what I know I will never be finished doing is correcting other people's writing. By far the most important skill I have leaned this year is how to properly analyze and critique my peers' works. No matter what job you have, whether you choose to be an engineer, biologist, or be invloved with technology, you will have to know how to write properly and find errors in other people's writing too. Biologists have to write scientific reports. Technical writing is very straightforward and knowing how to analyze writing for theme will not be usefull in your career. There are many things we learn in English that specifically apply to English. They don't benefit us abroad. The majority, however, can teach us to better our lives in whatever field of occupation we choose. Learning how to correctly criticize our peers falls in this catagory.

We spent numerous weeks on critiquing paragraphs, and we spent so much time on this particular skill because it is so valuable to learn. Working on helping our classmates write better paragraphs helps us write better paragraphs oueselves. Often times we are are reluctant to criticize our own work; not wanting to admit that we have our own skills that we have to work on. Realizing what others need to improve upon helps us see it in our own writing. Therefore we become better writers with skills that we can apply to many aspects of our lives.
Alena