Reflection On Final Exam

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.

When I first started this class and learned that we had to write a paper and do a presentation, I was thrown off and didn’t feel that I needed to try hard. I just wanted to hurry up and get this over with so that I did not have to worry about any of it anymore. I set a goal of passing all my courses with a B or better this semester and raising my GPA

Over the course of this semester, I have spent an ample amount of time serving as a mentor with Gonzaga’s Center for Community Engagement Youth Program, Campus Kids. In Campus Kids, we develop one-on-one relationships with mentees between the 4th-6th grades to assist them in succeeding academically, socially, and emotionally. Every Thursday afternoon at 3:10 PM, each of the Campus Kids mentors in our group meet up in the Center for Community Engagement in the basement of the Hemmingson Center. We spend this time doing icebreaker activities with the other mentors to get to know each other while we wait for our mentees to arrive in their school bus from the local Garfield Elementary in Spokane, WA. From 3:30-5:00 PM, we spend one-on-one time with our mentees where we engage in a variety of different activities such as playing educational games, working on homework together, sharing a healthy snack, talking about the activities we have done the past week, and exercising outside. In addition to meeting with my mentee every Thursday, I also ride in a carpool with 3 other mentors to Garfield Elementary every Friday from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM for a school visit where I get to sit in on my mentees’ PE class and provide support and encouragement for him as he works on developing his physical education. In this class, I help him out if he’s having difficulty understanding what his teachers are asking him to do, or I will help count the number of push-ups or sit-ups he has trying to reach

As I am entering into the final semester of my MLS studies I have the desire to gain more working knowledge of various library types and their practices. I would like to secure a practicum that will enable me the opportunity to gain practical hands on experience in a special library. Though this experience is not required for completion of my MLS degree I feel that the knowledge gained from this practicum placement will be invaluable. It will help create a more well-rounded and versatile professional base to draw from as I continue in the library profession.

The three courses I took this semester have all gave me insight to important information I have been able to apply at my work and will be able to continue applying in my future jobs. My business and professional writing class has shown me how correctly structuring work documents, letters, resumes, policies can demonstrate the professionalism of an employee or organization. Since this course when directing information through my supervisors I try to make sure my letters or any other documents are well written and formatted. I have received complements on my current job for doing this also.

The third and final assignment that I think is honors level work is my end of the year research paper. For this assignment, every student in the class was given a piece of paper which had a list of topics that were dealing with different topics about Africa. The one that I choose was on conflict diamonds in Africa. The first reason I picked this is the process that I went through to create this paper. The first step to creating this paper is by starting my research. I started my research by researching the topic for the first three days, pulling any information for reliable sources. The next day, I organized the information that I had search into 5 subtopics. Then the next class we had I handed in my outline where I received feedback, After that week,we had 2 weeks to

Sequence: I prefer directions to explain exactly what is required to do. I organize what needs to be done first with anything from start to finish.

In my opinion this project has happened to be one of the most beneficial projects. I personally wanted to do the field of Veterinary medicine because I have always been interested in that field and my fiancée is starting Vet school at Louisiana State Veterinary School, so knowing the statistics about the industry will benefit us. So after talking to my partner we both had an interest, so the decision was easy. Doing research about the job opportunities, salaries, and the stigma of the industry helps one realize the pros and cons. Ashley and I met twice to work as a team for the executive summary. I had finished my half of the project a week ahead of time and Ashley was not as proactive so I got a little nervous

- According to the student, he has started a new class and he could not find where he could change the info that he has right now on his account.

At the beginning of this Writing Composition course, I hardly had any expectations besides the excessive amount of essay assignments. Up until this course, I had only considered that this was any other ordinary writing class. My experiences with writing classes and essays have not been a fun one because I have always seen it as an annoying task. Recently, this narrow perception of mine has gradually deteriorated because of my experience in this course. I have realized that writing isn’t just another assignment, but it is a place where one can express their opinions, emotions, and experiences. This course has helped me develop my strengths like my development of thoughts and organization skills while being able to acknowledge my weaknesses like having trouble stating two positions and having biased opinions. Due to this recent realization, I have been able to get a better insight of my writing skills and a new perspective of writing classes.

Wow! It’s hard to believe we are at the end of this eight week Composition II course. And as I look back at what I’ve learned and my participation as a student my rating would be a four. Part of the reason I was to able earn this assessment, started when planning my course schedule, I intentionally choose to take this class by itself. Knowing my weakness in writing, I dreaded the idea of putting words to paper. But I was excited because this has always been something that I sought to improve. And in these eight weeks I feel I have achieved that.

During week one, my initial definition of learning was listening to an instruction, studying and then rehearsing that information in my mind, or categorizing it in a way so I could remember most of what was taught in the course. The class has opened a new dimension for me in the learning process; from understanding how I process information to deciphering which learning processes I use in intentional learning or metacognition. Understanding my learning patterns form dynamic learning relationship is a key element to my view of how and why I process the learning experience, even relating it to every day life.

Consumer departmentalization is based on division by customers served. A common example is an organization that has one department to handle retail customers and one department to handle wholesale or industrial customers.

As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this

This semester has been a tough one but I feel like I have learned a lot about pharmacy over these past few months. I have had a lot of courses so far and in each one, I have been able to make connections to the practice of pharmacy. In this essay, I will reflect on some of things I learned in my courses and how they relate to my future career as a pharmacist. I will also identify areas where certain topics intersect in different courses.