The main problem with word choice was that it was kind of weak. Also, it seemed like a lot of people didn't actually know the meanings of the words they were using, and they just threw them in there because they sounded, "intelligent". This was pretty ridiculous because I felt that it completely took away from the flow of some papers and made it seem like people just put together a collage of 5 syllable words. People should try writing for themselves instead of just trying to impress everyone.
The only other big problem I found was transitions, in that a lot of people didn't use them correctly, or they didn't use any at all. I mean, it's in the format we were supposed to use to write, so why did people forget about them? We had a list of them in front of us! And I want to clarify, it seems as though I'm bashing EVERYONE in the class, I'm not. As I said, most were really well written. But the few that weren't, were not written well at all!
As for me, I felt like I did well, but also messed up. For instance, I used this shows, when it was in the rubric telling me not too. So, I guess it is a little hypocritical for me to get on people for transitions, when I didn't follow the rubric either. Oh well, that's just how the story goes.
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