Reflection Paper

As I have improved my writing I have gained the confidence I need to be able survive at Guilford College. When I was required to read a text in high school to analyze, I turned to books on tape as a learning strategy to help me both read and understand the text. This process was very helpful for my slow process in general learning. In college I have not yet turned to this resource, and I now realize that this choice has not been in my best interest nor beneficial for my courses this semester. This course has forced me to think in ways that I have not previously about words, language, writing, and how time consuming and draining this course could be. In the beginning, I was under the assumption that I would be able to rush through this course just like English 101; however, the reading and writing was difficult and required more revision and attention to detail than I had anticipated or wanted. With this understanding I feel like I am better prepared to succeed in the rest of my college courses. I have learned a lot about different rhetorical situations and have experimented with a number of different styles in all of my writing this semester. With the essay prompts that were given to me in this course, I was able to write in various styles. In our informal

The inescapable reality of this class is forcing me to learn the writing process in all of its glorious detail. It is a painful process, but it is necessary to bring my writing to the next level. I attempted to embraced this process with entirely from beginning to end. Throughout the revision process I learned about revising for clarity, diction, and sentence structure with my position paper, along with the help of peer editing, and constructive criticism from my professor throughout the writing process, I found that one of my weaknesses was properly citing