WP4 Process Work Reflective Report

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Writing isn’t my favorite nor my best subject; however, I have submitted four well-written pieces, this being my fifth throughout the school year and I couldn’t be more satisfied with the outcome. In the beginning of English 1100, I set a couple goals for myself that I mentioned in the first journal for the writing discussion about how I wanted to improve on brainstorming, a larger vocabulary, and organization, but it wasn’t all about the strategies or skills that got me to where I am. I have gotten to know myself as a writer and as time went by, writing became second nature to me. Although writing project 1-4, took a lot of time, I provided an overall evaluation on each piece about the main points in what I did best and what I could be improved.

In writing project one, “Superman and …show more content…

I used Nicholas Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and Peter H. Edwards, “Where Are We Going?” to support my claim on why communication is in decline. In a writing discussion, WP4 Process Work Reflection I said, “Although, I have opinions that could go both ways, I’m going to say no, language and communication is not in decline.” and as you can tell my final paper was the complete opposite.
The reason why is that when I began writing this paper on saying no, I kept on finding more reasons to go against what I was initially talking about so I changed my stance and started to believe more about the issue today. I was content with my thesis, “Communication is in decline due to the connection with social media as it has shown to ruin human interaction and cause social isolation” (Liang 1) because I really feel like I explained those main points well throughout the paragraphs. That’s something I’m afraid of is creating a thesis that is either too vague or doesn’t have anything to do with the paper. I enjoyed writing this paper because I

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