My Strengths In Reflection

Although this paper had some frustration it allowed some of my few writing strengths to shine through.

My greatest writing accomplishments over the semester are the persuasive paper on social media and my research paper over the DREAM Act. The research paper was my first big accomplishment. I felt I presented a well developed essay and had strong focal

This year in Honors Freshman Literature and Composition, I have grown tremendously as a writer. My essays from the beginning of the year to the end have showed that I have greatly progressed in many skills that I have worked on. While I have acquired strengths this year, I also have weaknesses that I hope to improve next year in my writing.

Throughout the course this semester I have learned a lot about writing and my personal writing process and skills. The assignments that stand out and helped me the most were the literacy narrative and the Fine Art essay. I think that these two were the most influential to my writing practice because they both involved topics and styles that I really enjoy writing about. The Literacy Narrative forced me to write in new ways and a new thinking practices that I didn't use before. And the Fine Art of essay was something that I enjoyed writing about and composing it in more of a poetic form and I liked being able to have the option of making my own.

During my conference with Professor Berkey, I realized I became so caught up in my story I had quite a few spelling and grammatical errors. I recognized that I wasn’t as skilled with grammar and spelling. I think this was my favorite essay because of diversity in the word choice and being able to tell an attention-grabbing story. This type of essay keeps people interested and attentive.

My weaknesses could have been the overall structure of my essay. I was getting really into the writing, like the progression of my “conversation”: the author and the author’s work and the articles regarding the work of the author, and once I was finished, I realized I only have 4 solid pages of work. So I went back and tried to insert more examples,

By far, my favorite paper from this semester had to have been the multi-modal project. Although the assignment was not a paper, my power point presentation seemed to interest majority of the class. The things I enjoyed most about the multi-modal was that we’re able to write in a digital format, which allowed us to freely express ourselves, giving our readers the opportunity to receive our full understanding.

The final essay of my class being a research paper titled “Power Of Habit” is the fourth essay of my portfolio. My research paper goes over how schools teach nutrition and physical education and how it lacks the habit building to keep those good habits in the future. It also shows what has been changed in attempts to improve the schools and lower obesity but I add my own personal theory that is backed up by information that is gone over. It was a great way to research information about a topic I find interesting while, able to connect it to what I was learning during comp.

I feel that some strengths that I have had throughout this semester is the integration of quotes and using sources very well. I have also done a good job of researching in general for all of the essays. I also have been able to write really well reader responses because I was able to fully understand the passages and write to my best ability. I also had no difficulty with submitting all of the reader responses. I also think that in the Final Essay #2 I showed what I am fully capable of in the second page of integrating quotes as well as my own opinions.

I think one of my favorite assignments that we have done in this class was the positive and negative setting descriptions. It is really cool that words can change the whole feeling of the audience. Before this assignment I never even thought that I could write two different perspectives about the same thing. The “Dumpster Diving” assignment was beneficial to me because it taught me how to outline pieces of writings, and to know what parts are important and what is better to be left out. I’ve never had to outline papers this way so it is nice to develop a new skill that I’ll be able to use in college. One more assignment that I enjoyed doing was the simplify the Pledge of Allegiance in a way that a kindergartener would be able to understand. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be because I realized that some of the words I didn’t fully understand. It opened up my mind about the way that we can change words to bring a similar meaning to things but have them more complicated or visa versa.

This unit, as well as the others, have been an opportunity to grow and to learn and to discover myself in areas that I had not considered in the past. It is causing me to look within myself and to bring out abilities that had not been tapped for years. The first was the desire to move to level two in the CPE program. The realization that the status quo was not adequate. So the additional effort that was necessary to do so has to be applied. Hearing the words for my supervisor when she said if you had not change the way you were doing things we would be having a different conversation. Admittedly I did not want that different discussion. Moreover, the look that she gave with that smile in her head turned to the side I knew we would not have been good. I do not want that look anymore, so I will make sure there is no reason to receive that look. I discovered that this exchange was necessary for me to learn a valuable lesson, that lesson was if we students are willing to put in the work I will supervisor will put the work in to help us/me.

“Contributes to team goals in and out of meetings” –I rate my performance in this area with a “1”. Although I complete all the assigned tasks on time, I still need to work on advancing the team’s progress by “articulating merits of alternative ideas or proposals.” When working with team, I often feel pressured to deliver my suggestions and ideas because I am afraid that mine is impractical and not substantial compared to others’. In addition, in most cases, my ideas overlap with another team member’s, which further discourages me from sharing mine. From now to the end of this semester, I strive to contribute more of my ideas to the group. I will overcome my fear of expressing my thoughts and new suggestions by actively participating in weekly group discussions. I usually speak once or twice during discussions, but I will aim for a higher frequency and quality in my input. For example, not only I will offer my solutions to the group, but also I will ask questions about and express my thoughts on others’ solutions. Regarding meeting the assignments’ deadlines and producing quality work, I perform very well in that area. However, I must improve in assisting other team members to complete their assignments with “similar level of excellence.” I will use GroupMe to communicate with my team members regarding their progress on the assignments. I may check up on them once in the middle of the week and once near the deadline to make sure that every team member stays on track.

At the starts, my first semester in college, I was not entirely sure what I was getting right into. I didn’t know what to expect and how should I act in this setting, but the main concern was in how difficult psychology should be for me as a student. I tend to not set goals for myself in anything and just go with the flow. I always want to break the mold since my usual routine is not something that I’ll be confident describing to anybody, so I must change it. I always want to better myself subconsciously, so I aimed to try and study by reading what I wrote down from each class period since reviewing seems to be the only method of studying I can manage. I am aware of the flash cards on the resources online, yet I don’t fully utilize it since I am slow at reading the textbook. My goal, I guess, is to not lose sleep at night over not knowing what I am learning by having a firm grasp on the chapter of interest. I have done an okay job so far by learning it the first time it is introduced since I don’t study well. I have met my goal in a sense, but something has got to change.

Over the remaining course of clinicals, I have continued to search for advancements in my work ethic. Along the way, new strengths and weaknesses were found to build myself upon. Some of the newly acquired strengths I developed would be using the digital panel and system more efficiently, observing and retaining technique factors used, and remembering multiple patient history over a long period of time (Rouse,2016). These strengths play a significant role in what I have learned throughout my clinical journey at Advanced Imaging Concepts. Each one of my strengths have enlightened me to become a better future radiologic technologist. Without my clinical instructor and coordinator, I would not have found my weaknesses. Now, I have created several action plans used to solve these problems tactically. With their guidance, I have noticed my weaknesses are not knowing what confirms a good radiograph in regards of anatomy of interest, marker placement, and collimation to reduce patient dose.

There are many expectations at my workplace, some are rather time consuming and slow-paced however, thus far I can say the duties in which I have performed are very enjoyable and insightful. One of my major duties is centered around me shadowing the various staff in the building. In one instance, I shadowed my supervisor, Peter Rego, during one of his physical assessments of a patient who was suffering from persistent shoulder and back pain and from that session alone I gained profound insight in regards to treating pain. Furthermore, in the better interest on my learning and to better grasp the concepts of Physiotherapy, another one of my duties includes reading and studying rehabilitation books. Some of these books include the “How to Treat Your:” series by Dr.McKenzie. These books are rather insightful and I find them to be helpful in terms of furthering my interest and understanding of the work of Physiotherapists. Moreover, reviewing and analyzing the documents of patients at the clinic is another one of the duties I was assigned with at my placement. This is an integral part of a Physiotherapist's job; despite the fact that it may be tedious, it is pivotal that Physiotherapists create, organize , examine specific documents in order to effectively develop rehabilitation plans for their patients.