Cumulative Reflection Letter Over the course of the semester, I have learned a lot regarding the process of writing. When comparing my open letter to my DSP, it is very clear how much this process has progressed for me. When writing my DSP, I wrote the initial draft and then edited for grammar, but not really content. When writing my open letter I made quite a few changes to content and had more rounds of revision. My process was as follows: I wrote a brief outline, then I wrote the first draft, then considering the comments that I usually make on my peers’ essays I made structural and content changes, then I sent my essay to my peers for feedback, then I made even more content changes, then I received instructor feedback, then I made even more content changes, and finally I made the final grammatical changes. Clearly, the process for the open letter was significantly longer than the …show more content…
The most notable being that in my DSP, I stuck to a very standardized test structure. Though I didn’t follow the common five paragraph model that you frequently see in high school, I stuck to a structure that basically did the same thing. Rather than have every paragraph push the point further, as I did a much better job with in the open letter, each paragraph in my DSP is a unconnected point. Another huge organizational aspect that differs from my DSP, is that in my open letter I did not force my thesis to be in the first paragraph. The idea of having a thesis in the first paragraph is an idea that was engraved into many brain in high school and most of the time isn’t really effective. In my open letter, the thesis made very little sense without context so it was extremely important that I dedicate my introduction to giving the readers a better idea of what I was writing about. This made it so that the thesis logically fell in the second paragraph. Before this course I wouldn’t have dared to do
As expected, my rough drafts were not crafted with care to the extent that my final drafts were. Normally, I put the same effort towards my first draft that I would for my last revision. This was seen in my profile which was kept largely unchanged from my rough draft. However, the following essays could not receive the attention that they required, as the due dates for each of them lined with work for other classes. As I became busier, I could not look over the essay to avoid simple mistakes in grammar and refine my word choice. To improve these, I would later read it aloud in its entirety and make improvements. This would often include replacing frequently used words with synonyms and eliminating errors regarding language
Composition 1 taught me crucial writing skills and helped me grow as a writer. At the beginning of the semester, my papers utilized a considerable amount of passive voice, lacked transitional phrases, and the context was not always fully developed. But throughout the class, my writing became more clear, organized, and comprehensive. Passive voice allows the object of an action to be the subject of a sentence. In my first paper, the formal summary essay, I wrote, “The term describes situations, dating back to the 1980s, when excessive numbers of blacks were found to have been exposed to highly polluted areas.” The use of “were found” and “been exposed” distort the meaning of the sentence. Passive voice confuses the reader and makes comprehension
Throughout my college career I noticed how different my form of writing has become. When I came to this realization, it made me wonder why this is so. Is it that I am simply just writing a lot more than I have in the past? Is it because I am simply maturing as a writer and combining all the techniques I am picking up on my own? All these questions, along with many more, rambled around my head sounding like a resounding gong struggling to find a true conclusion. As the school year went on I came to find out the truth about why my writing has changed, which brought me to a rewarding conclusion.
My portfolio will demonstrate the skills and writing techniques I have developed and honed while taking the course English 1010 at the University of Memphis. Some of the techniques and skills I have learned include how to write with different persuasive strategies on the audience and how to incorporate critical thinking into my work. As well as these skills I have learned how to apply an effective composing process to my writing and have fine tuned my writing abilities. Writing with different styles on different topics has improved the way I approach writing papers. These styles helped me learn quickly, therefore making me a better writer and student at the same time.
Writing is a process I’ve grown to despise. Ever since grade school, I’ve had problems trying to express my ideas on paper. My writing process involves thinking about what’s being asked and trying to reflect my thoughts the best way I can on paper, but my thoughts don’t always come out as clear as I want them to be sometimes leaving a question not fully answered. My writing process isn’t a consistent set in stone process, but since being in ENC 1101 I always follow some of the same parameters such as revising my drafts, grammar usage and considering context and audience.
The sample that I chose from my Application of Literature and Writing class is my 1984 reflection. When I did my first draft of this assignment over the summer it was very below par; however, after I went back to school I learned a much more successful way of writing papers and applied what I learned to my final draft. My final grade for this assignment was a 50/50 or 100%. This assignment helped me realize that I still have much to learn before I graduate and that I need to stay open-minded about new information. I will not only use the skills I learned about how to write a professional paper when writing papers in college, but I will also stay more opened-minded about different perspectives throughout my entire life.
In the beginning of English 101 I was what you call a novice writer a person who only wrote what they felt was required. However, certain techniques that I learned in English 101 made me realize that writing was not about filling requirements; it’s about speaking out, exploring and proving a point. “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” (Trimble, 17) In John Trimble’s quote he tries to point out that writing is something that you grow with and learn as you go along. I believe this growth was achieved with a technique that was introduced to me by my professor called repetitive revision. What I found out was that revision of your essays helps in recognizing your mistakes and enhances the flow of your essays. By providing me...
The letter to my future selves writing process, was quite different of that than my normal process that I usually follow. Normally, I have to take multiple breaks between my points of writing because if not I will stray off topic. However, during this letter I did not stray off topic at all, and I found myself getting invested within this assignment. The reason I feel that I became so invested within this assignment is because I got to write something that relates to myself, so the content came very natural because it was my own thoughts and opinions. Also, I thought the whole idea of this assignment was very unique because when I was thinking about what points I wanted to cover, I had to think about where I wanted to be at in the future. Upon
It was a task that took a significant amount of time and effort, but was truly an excellent learning experience. I found it intriguing how much the original essay can improve or modify over time; moreover, how different ideas flow through your brain each second. The revision of my essays taught me an enormous deal about writing and was genuinely pleasurable to do.
Over the past semester, I have found the most challenging part of this course to simply be the transition from high school composition classes to college. Because writing expectations are so different in college than in high school, even with AP and Dual Enrollment “college level” classes, I first found myself being overwhelmed with the pressure to write the perfect first draft. The pressure came from knowing how much a final draft of a paper contributed to my grade. This left me sitting in front of my computer for hours at a time with thoughts of what I wanted to say racing through my head, but unable to deliver these thoughts into organized, structured sentences. I learned, through writing my persuasive essay, that instead of trying to write the paper start to finish and already in its perfect form, it is easier for me to look at the paper through its different components and focus on them individually, then work to best organize my ideas fluently.
My greatest strengths in my writing are my organizational skills and my work ethic, and I have certainly improved on my synthesis, evaluation, and summary skills. Organizing an essay is a very natural process for me. I always follow the basic guidelines for the structure of an essay, which state that one must have an introduction, thesis statement, body, conclusion, and a works cited when needed. The American Marriage Essay, Synthesis Essay, and the Compare and Contrast Essay all have an introduction, a thesis statement, a body, a conclusion, and works cited pages. Formatting the essays is an integral aspect of organizational skills. Each new paragraph is indented, the font is twelve-point Times New Roman, the sentences are double spaced, and the headers are correct in The American Marriage Essay, Synthesis Essay, and the Compare and Contrast Essay. Grammar is also very vital to a well-organized paper. I have shown through my writing that I excel at creating grammatically correct essays. For example the thesis from my Compare and Contrast Essay, “While Andrew Sullivan’s “For Gay Marriage” and William J. Bennett’s “Against Gay Marriage” are both about gays joining in matrimony, Bennett takes an anti-gay marriage stance while Sullivan takes a
Metacognitive Letter Metacognition- the understanding and awareness of the thought processes of the self. This is known in many academic and professional spheres are reflection because it involves retrospective thinking and finding the value in past experiences. To me, being metacognitive is understanding that one’s ideas and attitudes to particular topics are fluid and are only an effective argument away from being convinced otherwise.
Today is the second session that I had counselor with this particle client. He came in to see me for the same problem that he had before. But except this time client had be doing a little than before. Before I started with the interview I had use the five stages and dimension of the interviews a client. I want to have an empathic relationship with my client, and gathering story and find the strength of my client is part of getting to know my client. This time I had set a realistic goal that my client can work toward without feeling that he is not in control of making the decision. The next is stage restoring finding what is not working now and trying to find an alternative that will work then take the action of letting the client go or
The rhetoric for this argument letter was very important since I was writing to my towns First Selectman. In this piece, I met the learning outcome 1a, since I was able to recognize it called for a a specific type of writing because of the certain rhetorical situation. Before writing, I thought about my audience, the purpose and context of the piece and picked how to express my ideas accordingly. Since the First Selectman’s job is to deal with town members, I knew he must get many emails and calls from people everyday. I wanted to create something easy yet effective for him to read. I didn’t want to write an essay because that would have been a very ineffective method of getting my argument across. Instead, I chose to write a letter, which goes along with learning outcome 2b. I believe a letter was a good format to write my argument in because I was able to be formal enough to be taken seriously, yet I didn’t seem too serious, as I would have, if I wrote my argument as an essay. While revising this piece, I
My parents arrived in the United States hoping for a better future not for themselves, but for the baby they carried in their arms. We would often move from relatives ' houses since my parents couldn’t afford renting an apartment themselves. We were fortunate enough to have caring relatives who didn 't mind us living with them since they knew the hardships we were going through. I grew up in a household where only Spanish was spoken given that both my parents didn’t speak any English at all. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher was afraid that I would be behind the rest of my classmates, given that I only spoke Spanish fluently. I was fortunate to receive free tutoring from my kindergarten teacher. We would often read books together until