Student C

Student C is a fourth grade student, and the first writing

unit he had to write about was realistic fiction. The task for
his On Demand was to write about something that happened
for real, however, the peoples names had to be changed.
The writing had to be written in a story format. In his story
there was dialogue occurring between the characters, and
he used quotations as an indication to show the discussions
taken plan amongst the characters. The only problem with
Student Cs story was he wrote one big paragraph rather
than writing several paragraphs to compose his story. In
addition, the volume of his paper was about 1 page.
After modeling to the class how to write a realistic
fiction, Student C had a better understanding of how to
structure his story. When compared to the On Demand and
his published piece, both stories consisted of dialogue,
characters, and a focus. The difference between the two
writings was that the On Demand was one big paragraph,
and Student C did not do much elaborating. The published
piece consisted of several paragraphs, headed by stub-topics
and the volume increased. For instance, Student Cs story
was 3 pages in length. Too, he elaborated more in this
writing versus the On Demand.
Another, writing unit which Student C completed was
Opinion/Persuasive. In his On Demand, Student C kept it real
brief by writing two paragraphs on lung cancer. The first
paragraph was written in a story form, including quotations
around the dialogue. As for the second paragraph he briefly
wrote why people should stop smoking, based on his own
knowledge of it.
In conclusion, I noticed that Student C applied the
strategy that he previously learned from the last unit.
Nevertheless, for the published piece Student C decided
to write about the dangers of cigarettes. He was persuasive

in informing his readers why they should not smoke

cigarettes. Most of the information consisted of research
that he did, on the effects of smoking cigarettes and the rest
was based on his understanding of it. The volume of his
writing was average.
When comparing his On Demand to his published piece
it showed evidence that Student C understood the concept
of writing an Opinion/Persuasive Essay. The first writing was
one page versus his second writing, which was three pages
in volume. The structure of his first writing was broken into
two sections, the first paragraph was written in a realistic
fiction format and the second paragraph was persuasive. As
for the published writing it was aligned with the writing unit.
He had a claim and solid evidence to support it, plus an
introduction and conclusion.