English 1020 Unit 1 Assignment

When demonstrating my growth as a writer across several pieces, there are four main learning outcomes in which I have focused on. These include writing, reading, researching and reflecting. Within these learning outcomes, there are many different conventions and ways to understand my various projects and assignments as a writer. Throughout the English 1020 class, I have been able to observe not only my previous strengths, but myself growing as a writer by improving my ability to find strong sources as well as properly citing and explaining them, forming a more logical paragraph structure, and many more conventions when writing an assignment.
The first learning outcome in which I would like to discuss is writing. Writing effectively for rhetorical situations while working on my discourse community paper about Kappa Delta Sorority is perhaps one of the areas I found myself struggling the most in. This is because I consistently got stuck when making sure the paper had a logical flow within each paragraph and keeping

When beginning as a writer, I can say that I did not like to research at all, especially about the topics which were assigned. This is also because I wasn’t entirely sure on where to find academic articles or editorials, let alone be able to cite and use them in a project. I have improved on this gradually throughout almost every assignment this class has given me. Another example of this is from project two, which was the rhetorical analysis: “Adamos and her partners have provided a way so that the two different audiences can relay and comprehend the information of her argument within an academic and editorial context” (Rhetorical Analysis). When writing the rhetorical analysis paper specifically, I was able to conduct proper research and improve because of my new ability to find great