John Pappas
Mrs. Fogle
English 101
14 December 2009
Best Paper After looking through the four papers that I submitted throughout the past semester, it was easy for me to establish which one I feel is my best piece of writing. I think that my autoethnography paper is my best example of good writing. Going through this paper starting from the top, the introduction and thesis sentence are both flawless. They provide direction for the reader and touch base on what will be presented in the rest of the paper. Moving onto the body paragraphs of this paper, I use many transitions, in-text citations, and the organization, structure and flow of the paper are all perfect. In addition, very few revisions were necessary after I turned the first draft in. Just things like word choice and sentence structure were the only major changes that were necessary in order to consider this paper an A paper. Moving on to the conclusion of my autoethnography paper, it is safe to say that it ties up any loose ends and reiterates my rhetorical purpose. A reason why this paper is better than the other papers that I have written, would be because I did not wait until the night before the assignment was due to write it. By spacing my work schedule out and working on the paper a little bit every night for several nights, I was able to produce a very good paper. The only thing that is lacking in my paper is a works cited, however I feel as though I do not need one because I have no one to cite except for myself. In addition, after submitting this paper online to Mrs. Fogle, she returned the paper to me with very few suggestions for improving my paper. Because it is a well developed paper and covered all aspects of the criteria, this paper is the best example of my good