This week in lit class we worked on our timed writings. Both of the students who graded mine gave me a five. Though a five is a very good score for my first timed writing, in my opinion, I would like to get my papers up to a nine. It's almost comical in my timed writing that it was mostly simple errors that were made. I was very brief in my analysis and I expected such problems; however, the grammatical errors that were made and the major usage of first person narration were a surprise to me. I was not aware of the small errors I make when I'm writing under pressure. I've written AP essays many times and they've all been under pressure, but the prose essay was more difficult to take in, in a time limit. Having to read and annotate the passage and then write an essay that is well thought out and grammatically correct is a very intimidating task to be put forth in one class period. My one question that keeps running through my head is, what happened to make it unacceptable to use first person in a formal essay? What caused it to be considered so informal?