Strength Of English Reflection Paper

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The Strengths of this Semester Out Weigh the Weaknesses
This semester in English 102, the curriculum requires students to adapt their writing to the college level. This level of writing is necessary to create a backbone for students as they progress and grow their writing skills in higher level classes. The course’s primary focus throughout the semester was the adapting of rhetoric strategies into papers as well as writing a comparison, a position paper, critical analysis, and finally a visual argument paper. These papers -though all very different in style- help establish the basic guidelines of writing papers for not only this class but for future English and other classes. Even though I am a Management Information Systems major and writing is not a part of the curriculum, being able to write clear and coherent pieces are necessary for a developing a strong writing style whether it be for resumes or professional works. The two strengths that …show more content…

As the researcher for the visual argument project, it was necessary to find information not only for the visual but the paper as well. At the beginning of the class, I would use Google as the search engine and found news articles as my sources. I made sure the quotes used in papers were specifically from the candidates’ websites when discussing their ideas and points of views. For example, in my report entitled “The Mental Wall Against Trump- What Americans Don’t Realize is Best for America” I found appropriate sources that explicitly stated Donald Trump’s reasoning for a particular plan, “A nation that does not serve its citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.” (2). Throughout the visual project, I used many library databases provided by Alabama’s library. These sources established many new ideas and ways of researching appropriate sources for

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