Pranav Kakaria, a current seventh-grader attending Fowler Middle School, had worked on a CBAP(a district writing assignment) in his prestiged gifted and talented program. In the CBAP, he needed to write about an invention that had an impact on the way of life of people. About a couple weeks later, he worked on the Expository Writing Stations. By working intensively on the Expository Writing Stations, Pranav developed his expertise of how to write a successful expository essay. Doing the stations helped him in his preparation for the Writing STAAR Test. His understanding evolved throughout the stations by revisiting, reflecting on, and revising previously written texts through sections specifically like development of ideas, word choice/conventions, and sentence fluency. …show more content…
For that station, Pranav needed to go through his writing and find the evidence he had provided when his teacher had assigned him the prompt. He saw that his paper did not have convincing examples to support his thesis statement. The evidence did also not add much value to his thesis because of its generality. Though, his commentary did connect his examples to the main idea of the prompt, but its weakness made the essay sound a little less professional and made him sound less like an expert. Through doing the station, he learned that he should use either real evidence or convincing made-up ones. For example, using a university study example would be more convincing than general evidence. In addition, he learned that he could use someone he knows personally as a piece of evidence, but he would have to do it without telling his relationship with