Evan Megan
Purple
10/31/12
During term one I
demonstrated a growth mindset when transitioning from the Thomas Malthus
paragraph onto larger writing assignments such as the first writing workshop, in
which I made an essay outline about how industrialization spurred new
ideologies about social and political rights. When writing the Thomas Malthus
paragraph, I used writing strategies from last year, such as always making
clear connections between analysis and the thesis. After getting the paragraph
back, you hadn’t written a grade, but instead formative comments, which included making a clear topic sentence. By receiving comments instead of a grade on my
paragraph, my attention became focused on improving my writing, as opposed to
accepting my grade with a fixed mindset. Using a growth mindset, I pursued
improving my writing by targeting specific elements which I had received
comments on, such as topic sentences, during the writing workshop assignment. I
saw a big improvement in the writing workshop assignment from my Thomas Malthus
paragraph because, the growth mindset I had allowed me to focus on improving my
work in specific areas I had received formative comments on.
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