Reflection Paper

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.

On September 6, 2017, I were documented for an incident that involved a University Housing policy violation. I was charged with violating the University Housing Alcohol 1.2 policy. With my violation, came consequences. I met with The Residence Conduct Coordinator to discuss my actions and came to the conclusion that I would have to schedule a meeting with The Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center (CADEC) and with that, a reflection paper.

As a writer, I have improved greatly since the first exploratory narrative essay. There have been many challenges that I have faced in my writing, but I have dealt with them in the best way possible. Over the course of the three papers I have written, I have improved in the flow of the papers, as well as the content of the papers. This semester, I have managed to overcome most of the challenges in my writing and have grown as a writer because of it.

Within this semester, I built off of your comments and worked to form a more focused piece of writing. While I succeeded on keeping to one aspect that I was trying to explain, I did not go into enough detail to support it. Again, I struggled with being more specific and detailed about what I was trying to express. I gave a basic overview of the concept.

Writing an essay has always been a difficult and tedious task in my opinion. The writing process I followed when creating the original assignment consisted of research, a rough draft, a small amount of editing, and a final draft. Researching the topic was the first step I took in writing my paper. I searched for credible and useful information that would have a positive effect on my essay. After gathering my information, I worked to create an outline that would assist in the organization and structure of my essay. I then used my outline to begin a rough draft by inserting research, as well as my own thoughts and ideas. After editing and revising my essay, I ended with a final draft. The editing done to the paper was basic and done solely by myself. I did not use any resources such as the writing center. Along with this, peer reviews were not helpful as my group did not strive to make any meaningful corrections or provide any constructive criticism. Because I had little corrections the amount of editing or revising done was limited. Throughout the duration of this class, the process in which I write an essay has changed.

My progress on the essay dramatically increased after deciding to proceed after my shaky start. The paragraphs began to flow and the essay began to take form. I wrote about how my experiences with my both my school's rifle team and of the staff of a hospital I had visited, helped me form my career goals. I was highly pleased with the body of the essay, but I realized that the introduction was unacceptable and that I failed to support my thesis. Two of my former English teachers and my online course instructor all gave me the same advice on how to fix it, start over with a new introduction.

It was difficult to surf through the school library website to find articles or books that relates to the topic of the essay. There were too much books and articles to find that was right for the essay. Eventually, I came up with a few articles that can support my claim and I used it in this essay to try to make my essay stronger and better. The readings that we did in class really helped me out. The readings were helpful and I used some of the readings that were assigned to us. I did some research for essay number three and I also used some of the readings that was assigned to us to create essay number three. Also, I included a topic from my psychology class into this essay in which it help me create a terrific essay. As you can see, I posted two version of essay number three and how it changed due to some positive feedback from my classmates and how positive feedback can really help improve someone’s

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