Audience Analysis: Reflection

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WRA 150 Reflection
Overall in WRA 150 I believe my writing has reached a new level. In this paper I will like to reflect on my learning in this course. While providing evidence to back my claims. This course has taught me many things that I wasn’t able to learn before reaching college.
During this course I found myself being intimidated. Being a student coming from an inner city high school. I wasn’t sure what to expect, for example when it came to writing a nine page research paper, I was unsure of the process. In high school I never encountered a research paper, or even one of such length.
The process of doing research for me was like an international student coming to MSU, different. It was so different for me because I wasn’t sure how …show more content…

In the portfolio you can see two pieces of evidence that shows my development in this area. The first piece is a two page essay about who my audience is in project2.In this essay I didn’t have the correct audience for my project. Therefore I made some revisions, which is the second piece of evidence.
In class we discussed how to start a paper, transition and paragraph efficiently .First, in this discussion I learned it’s not best to start your paper writing your intro first. Only because it can mess everything up once you start writing if you don’t focus on your central claim in the intro.
Second, throughout your paper you should be able to transition smoothly like icing on a cake. The reference to cake was provided as a visual of how you put icing on different layers of cake to make it connect. I learned that when writing, if you can’t find a way to make your next paragraph connect that maybe it’s in the wrong place. When this error happens you should consider …show more content…

Like project four, I found the weirdest because it switched up the whole writing process. Although it switched everything up it helped to hone some of the first year writing outcomes for me.
Reflecting back on the course I have honed a few of the first year writing outcomes. I have written a nine page research paper, where I had to find my research and pick and choose what information to use that would be beneficial. I have engaged in reading articles and speeches, while breaking them down to understand the true meaning of what the author was trying to communicate to the audience. In addition I have written in different genres to relate to an audience.
On another note while learning all these wonderful things I also enjoyed the class as a whole. The class was interesting and but challenging. Even though we didn’t have enough time to learn more, I believe I still learned a lot of information .Each class session brought something new to learn, in an exciting way. This class helped me to think in a different way, through its class discussion, readings, and writing

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