I looked back at my three TOWs "The Future is Now" from August, one of my first TOWs ever written, TOW #11 from November of President Obama's Speech, and TOW #19 from February of Naruto: the Last's trailer. Honestly put, I feel like I sounded like a child in my earlier TOWs and I'm amazed at the growth and maturation of my writing. I realized that as time went on, my TOWs followed a fairly systematic and straightforward approach that was simple and effective. I knew what I was looking for in texts and I noticed that I better explained author's purpose how effectively the author utilized literary devices. Theses became stronger and TOWs became overall much better.
Due to the TOWs, I believe that I mastered SOAPS, one of the first things we learned in class. Pulling from multiple sources not only gave me more awareness of news in our society but it allowed me to practice dissecting ranges of texts. I can efficiently find what literary devices an author uses and I became apt at learning the context behind texts in order to uncover their purpose in all sorts of writings, articles, speeches, and visual texts.
I believe that I could still improve on creativity. I noticed that a lot of my TOWs followed the exact same pattern after several weeks into the school year. I didn't push myself. I found a system worked, and sadly, I stuck to it. Changing the format of my TOWs could have pushed my boundaries and helped me improve even more as a writer. This creativity could be used in all forms of writing and will be extremely helpful in the future.
TOWs were beneficial in the way that they gave me practice, something that often isn't emphasized in English and writing classes. I was presented with new information each week and I got to practice important skills on each. Even though the TOWs were grueling at times, looking back on them, they were well worth it considering the practice I got and the skills I mastered.
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