My Fall Reflection

This essay will be a self-evaluation of my writing style, and the improvements I have made over the past three months. Before I took this class I had not written a paper since the last time I was in college. That was around 2004, my major was computer software. For that major there isn’t a whole lot of writing involved. This was more of a refresher class than anything. To be honest I was a little intimidated, for the simple reason I had not written anything like this since high school. I will discuss how I discovered my writing process. My development as a writer throughout this semester, and finally I will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of my essays.

My last essay in my TSI prep class, and perhaps the most important. i expected to write how i see my improvement and how i will proplay never make mistake again. The truth is looking realistically far back i seem to have made a small but circumstantially big change in the way i write. I don't know if my teacher could agree though i would disagree with that observation , because the teacher has only had me for a small amount of time i have lived in my head long enough to see i have made great progress. I've come so far from hardly being able to write a complete sentence and not even understanding what that even was , to fully grasping the concept of story writing and proper spelling. My hard work thought these years has finally payed off when this class allowed me to see the errors of my ways ( or should i say writing?) . I am forever grateful for the opportunities and lessons this course has provided for me and with a wholesome heart vowe that its lessons will never be forgotten , but shall always be used and treasured like a precious bible that can open eyes to many but has to be truly believed

I immensely struggled when writing. Taking my scrambled thoughts and uncoordinated analysis and converting it into clean and understandable words on a page was arduous. I could not express my thoughts in proper academic format. I understood the importance of writing to every subject. It was essential that I learn to condense my ideas and feeling into coherent written word. After much debate, I decided that the best way to improve my writing skills was to take an advanced English course.

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

I am tearing my hair to squeeze every single word from my poor mind to finish this letter. Yet deep in my frontal cortex, there is no part of mechanisms that is designed for writing a self-analyzing letter to my instructors. However, it has been ten weeks I studied in this course, and all my favorite works in these ten weeks are gathering in this tiny portfolio. I have wrote a several rhetorical practices that taught me basic rules of rhetorical essays. I have wrote a rhetorical analysis, which explained both the thesis of the reading and my own arguments against the reading. I finished my last rhetorical project three days ago with telling another interesting story. All these assignments were tiny pieces of my writing style and they built up together to present me a general concept of being a successful writer. I learned that, and I made a number of changes to upgrade my writing skills. At last, I decide to offer you these changes I have made as a start-up story writer in the college.

This semester of writing has been truly interesting for me. Being able to write within a topic that interests me has made the process more exciting and engaging. I can see this growth in my papers this semester, but I feel that other, perhaps, cannot. It is true that the mechanics of my writing have improved and I am more able to articulate my thoughts and position. However, the real improvement, that other may not see, has been in my self-esteem and confidence in my own writing skills. I chose my sixth writing assignment as my example of progress for a variety of reasons. The two most prominent reasons are that it is one of my later assignments, and, therefore, will represent the most recent evidence of my progress and that it received my highest grade of all of my assignments.

Have your written communication skills improved? What has been your best piece of written work so far this semester?

To improve my writing based on the online tools feedback and analysis I will engage in more reading and writing. The first point of reference is to utilise text book such as the Communication Skills Toolkit: Unlocking the Secrets of Tertiary Success by Grellier and Goerke (2010). In addition The Little Red Writing Book: Better Sentences (n.d.) offers another medium for writing effective sentences. The benefits of The Little Red Writing Book entail sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar and syntax where at the end of each section, there are activities for practice. Furthermore, text books and tutor’s notation for required discipline will enhance my learning in reading and writing.

My writing abilities have gotten me by in the business environments that I have found myself in. That being said, I lack skill in formal writing. Because I took a clep test that exempted me from English Composition I and II in college, my experience in writing has been limited over the past four years. Furthermore, my major, Geomatics, does not demand a large amount of technical writing which has further limited my exposure to technical writing

In the first assignment, I assessed my writing with the online tool PaperRater. The score received was below average on almost all fronts, which surprised me. I established a goal to be writing weekly and applying online tools to provide feedback. While I have not completed this goal in a way I expected, my writing style has been enhanced. I put this improvement down to my research and study throughout this unit, as well as entering into a new workplace that requires a higher level of professionalism than my previous workplace.

Until I attend in my second class of Eng-3001, I had never stopped complaining to myself about my unacceptable WST scores and would never expected that It was a remarkable experience to attend in a writing class when I nearly finish my master program. But In the second class, the professor’s comment of my Diagnostic essay and the lecture about the structure of a competent essay clearly let me recognize that my WST scores had nothing wrong, but I had. Fortunately, the practical and plentiful classes didn’t give me any chance to start a new complaint about another unacceptable score of the Diagnostic essay. Nevertheless, it helped me to recognize and improve my weakness in building completed structure of essay, correctly using example and quoting

I’m writing this letter to tell you about my learning outcomes and experiences in your class. Let me start off by saying that 2017 has been the worst year of my life. Nothing went the way I wanted it to. I experienced so many different things and had been in so many wild situations. I had started losing sight of who I was as a young man which scared me. Until, your English 101 class. This class is one of the highlights of this whole year. I have learned so many things about myself in this class and it changed my overall perspective of life. I am a better me in all aspects especially mentally. Plus, I have developed my writing skills and became a better writer overall.

I wanted to share with all of my colleagues the information I found on enhancing your technical writing skills. Guidelines from these three sources will increase productivity. (Natchez, Fogel, & Tosello, 2003) TechProse is a technical writing, training, and information technology consulting company in business since 1982.What this company does it’s going to help us employees create logical and professional letters, reports, surveys and bring more customers to our company. Sometimes as writers we get stuck and don’t know where to start writing our reports. Well, first determine a purpose; grab the attention of the audience.

I believe it is important for any student who wants to do their best in a class to take a moment to evaluate their own work to determine the rate their writing is progressing and how they can continue to advance their writing. When I looked through my own work I asked myself “what have I learned this semester?” and “what do I still need to learn in order to improve my writing?”. Answering both these questions will help me with my last step of my self-evaluation, developing a plan to learn new skills.

J. E. Mahan, A. Jayasumana, D. Lile and M. Palmquist, "Bringing an emphasis on technical writing to a freshman course in electrical engineering," in IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 36-42, Feb 2000.