Reflection On Intro To College Writing

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Reflections on Intro To College Writing.
Writing has always been a key to the person I am today, I 've been writing sketch comedy and stand-up comedy for about six years, and recently I 've been working on writing music. I love writing because it is an umbrella term that cover so many different things, I learned from this class many of the things that writing can do. For example, in the first text I read, Nick Walker introduced the idea of a “Neurodiversity Paradigm Shift” I found this piece of text truly inspiring because it showed a minority that many people really never give the time of day. Walker was able to make an appeal that caught my attention and showed he was able to make a difference in the world just by writing. As I said before, writing is an umbrella for many different ideologies and purposes and after taking Intro To College Writing I was introduced to ideas and movements that I never heard of till then. Such as the idea …show more content…

For example, in my public speaking class while writing my speech I now consider who my audience is and write to appeal to them. While reading in College Writing and even in my own leisure I search for the author 's purpose, while reading to better understand why this text was composed. ”Purposes take into account the emotions and possible actions of readers as well as their thoughts.(DK5)” So after taking this course I know consider composing to communicate, which means when I 'm writing I consider who the audience is and write for them and not myself. For example, when I wrote my essay about Autism, I needed to consider who my audience was when composing and that meant defining some of the more complicated concepts, thus allowing my ideas to flow more smoothly. I feel like after learning these tactics I 've become a better

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