Personal Reflection

On 08/20/2017 at 1002 hours FTO Wheeler #4361 and I responded to St. Luke’s Hospital emergency room entrance, on 3555 Cesar Chavez St., regarding a women in a hospital gown trying to break the caller’s vehicle window with a brick. Officer Wheeler and I were in full police uniform driving a marked patrol unit when we responded.

Coming into this class, I wasn't sure what to expect. Of course,I expected to be writing a lot but was unsure of the type of writing and the style. I was looking forward to writing challenging pieces that stretching me creatively as a writer. I wanted to explore how to express myself in my writing because it had been a long time since I'd written a creative essay. One of my main hopes for this class was challenging myself to become a better editor of my own papers. I often find it a tedious and laborious process to find and edit the grammatical errors in my papers. However, this is an important skill that I need to develop for my future as a successful writer.

Prior to entering class, I thought that I was a competent writer. However, I quickly learned that my writing was conversational and that I had little experience in academic writing. I became aware that much of my poor writing was like an old habit that I found humbling to admit and hard to correct. Passive voice, unneeded words, long sentences, were just a few of the obstacles that resulted in ineffectual writing. However, using peer reviews and an editing checklist I slowly began the journey to better writing. I also found that reading about writing provided supplementary methods to improve my writing. Implementing these new techniques, I slowly began to understand what scholarly writing entailed. As I learned through giving criticism

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

Prior to entering class, I deemed myself a competent writer. However, I quickly discovered that my writing involved mediocre writing precepts. In contrast to the principles of scholarly discourse, my writing held the tenets of conversational writing and failed to meet academic standards. Furthermore, much of my poor writing was akin to a deep-rooted habit that I found humbling to admit and challenging to correct. Passive voice, unneeded words, long sentences, were a few of the obstacles that impeded my journey to effective writing. However, using peer reviews and an editing checklist I slowly began improving my skills as a competent writer. I also found that reading concerning writing provided supplementary methods to improve my skills as a scholarly writer. Implementing these innovative techniques, I slowly began to

Before entering class, I deemed myself a competent writer. However, I quickly discovered that my writing involved mediocre writing precepts. In contrast to the principles of scholarly discourse, my writing held the tenets of conversational writing and did not meet academic standards. Furthermore, much of my poor writing involved deep-rooted habits that were humbling and challenging. Passive voice, unneeded words, long sentences, were a few of the obstacles that impeded my journey toward effective writing. However, using peer reviews and an editing checklist I slowly began improving my skills as a competent writer. I also found that reading concerning writing provided supplementary methods in improving my skills as a scholarly writer.

Prior to entering class, I deemed myself a competent writer. However, I quickly discovered that my writing involved mediocre writing precepts. In contrast to the principles of scholarly discourse, my writing held the tenets of conversational writing and failed to meet academic standards. Furthermore, much of my poor writing was akin to a deep-rooted habit that I found humbling to admit and challenging to correct. Passive voice, unneeded words, long sentences, were a few of the obstacles that impeded my journey to effective writing. However, using peer reviews and an editing checklist I slowly began improving my skills as a competent writer. I also found that reading concerning writing provided supplementary methods to improve my skills as a scholarly writer. Implementing these innovative techniques, I slowly began to understand what scholarly writing entailed. As I learned through giving

Since early high school, I have known my academic writing has needed improving. But, I lacked the knowledge of how to improve. Consequently this self-reflection task has given me the time and the purpose, to gain knowledge of how to improve and to set a plan for my learning journey. The feedback and analysis from online tools; Pro writing aid, Writer’s Diet and Paper Rater, and Grellier and Goerke’s Communication skills toolkit (2010), clarified that this journey is important for me to take. I will use these web resources and written text, to edit my final drafts and improve the readability of future academic writing assessments. The goal in using these tools, it to recognise mistakes, such as writing long sentences, over using pronouns and writing in the passive voice. I expect that my personal, academic writing skills will improve. Therefore, I hope to adjust my writing style, resulting in fewer drafts before submission.

This past semester I’ve made many improvements in my writing skills. A few improvements I’ve made were providing more original titles in my essays, writing creative or unique introductions, and creating well-supported paragraphs. These improvements have made major impacts in my essay/writings. Due to this, my essays now tend to grab the reader's attention with also supportive paragraphs.

“In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35, New International Version). Giving does not have to equate to a monetary sum. Individuals can implement their talents and skills as a form of giving. Volunteering not only affects the receivers, it alters the giver’s heart and mindset as well. During the course of Community Health, I had the privilege of attending a seminar called the Cost of Poverty Experience (C.O.P.E), watching a web seminar entitled Working With the Diverse LGBTQQI Communities 101, attending the Matter Park Festival, and visiting the Veteran Affairs (VA) facility in Marion, Indiana.

The first few weeks of this class when we were going through all the essays we were going to write, I’ll be honest, I was a little scared to see where this semester was going to take us. But, now we are here and I feel very confident about all the work that has been done so far. Picking a topic for papers is always one of the hardest things for me to do, I tend to be a pretty good writer, but I get really indecisive when deciding what topic to write about. Eventually I decided to write about something I am passionate about and something I feel I have a a decent amount of knowledge on, politics. I chose the topic of raising minimum wage to learn more about it and because it is something which is very heavily debated in our society right now. I am a fiscal conservative which is why I chose the argument to keep minimum wage the same/lower it is because it coincides with my political beliefs. In my opinion raising the minimum wage leads to inflation, job loss, and raises the cost of literally every consumer good. Many people nowadays only get their news from one side of the spectrum which is why my goal was to show people who may only look at one side of the spectrum the other side of things. For this reason it was interesting researching all the groups of stakeholders, and ultimately it led me to writing an even stronger paper. Ultimately I am not looking for any specific reaction out of anybody I just want to educate people on some facts which I feel are important to making an

The first paper assigned to the class was a summary and response essay. The assignment called for my personal opinion on the text in reference to wether or not I agreed with the author. When writing this essay I laid out the assignment expectations in my own words and attempted to evaluate the prompt in a matter that I better understood. I recall drawing up a number of possible introductions to help decide whether agreeing or disagreeing would result in a better written essay, despite not particularly enjoying the piece, I decided that agreeing would be best. Once I decided that, I wrote out my topic sentences and moved from there. After those two steps were complete. my pharmaceutical company rejected my prescription refill due to an error on their part, as a result of this, I was unable to safely continue work and school. I threw the rest of the essay together with little attention to detail in an attempt to turn it in as quickly as possible. I did not receive feedback. After the issue was resolved I attempted to explain the scenario to you, doctors note in hand, but you told me there was nothing you could do. On account of this issue, I cannot say that I learned much from the assignment itself.

The writing I did this semester for Engl 110c has meant alot to me because I was able to pick a topic that has such a huge impact in my life. I was able to do the topic about Navy Wives, which has a huge impact on me. I recently became a navy wife a year ago and my life has changed drastically. I was able to share everything I wanted to about the life of a military wife through my writings, as well as share to my classmates about my topic. I really enjoyed creating my ePortfolio because I could come out of my shell and be me. I made a ePortfolio website that would be for military wives to read. I believe this website would be perfect for any military wife reading it. I was able to give tips and information on what it’s like to be a military wife, how to prepare for deployments and how to stay strong being a military wife.

Before taking Western Heritage: The Humanities, I had only taken general writing courses WRT 110 and 111 at the University of Hartford. Those classes taught me basic stylistic ways of writing and expressing my opinion. I thought that this course, one in which we turn in written responses on various texts would be similar, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. This class made me shift the way I write, more deeply analyze texts to uncover the author's meanings, and open up my perspectives on various worldly topics.

Q1. There are a few different ways I learn and remember new things well: the first would be through physical or kinesthetic learning. Growing up I played a few different sports and loved being able to tangibly learn new skills and see the span of growth when I was able to push myself further athletically. Through those experiences I also learned how to collaborate and work with other people as a team, utilizing everyone’s strengths to accomplish goals. Another way I’ve been successful in learning has been through the combination of visual, aural, and verbal practice. In 2015 leading into 2016 I lived in Guatemala and spent much of my time trying to practice and learn Spanish. When I could hear, write, and visualize the effect of a word or phrase that helped me to retain and recall what I had learned.