Reflection Paper

As a writer, I identify as a disorganized writer. Usually High School English teachers hand out a template of how an essay should be composed. I never understood the teacher’s outline. Setting up the exact order of the paper and then writing it like in a science lab isn’t how my mind works. My concept of an outline is just writing the paper as the thoughts pop into my mind. When I write, I like to let my fingers flow within the thoughts inside of my brain and after finishing the paper, I try to fix the mess, which acts like a bandaid because there is no way of fixing the essay. My weakest link in the art of writing happens to be grammar. English, a complex beast, has a vast amount of rules and I’m not a fan of remembering anything. Commas

Taking a look back at my past writing assignments and drafts for each one, I can clearly see the improvement in how they are organized. My first draft for writing assignment 1 was basically one long paragraph. I clearly remember Mr. Bogdaniec’s advice on how to separate and create individual paragraphs that only contain one topic or main idea. Also with his handouts on writing an introductory paragraph and how to write the conclusion paragraph were extremely helpful in putting together my first writing assignment in this class. I followed the steps on brainstorming and then steps for creating a plot, and didn’t feel overwhelmed and confused as I had

From revising and re-reading my own writing, I have learn that it takes a lot of steps to be able to organized your thoughts and putting them into writing, it takes time to make all this ideas to make sense; that it is important as a writer to transmit all perspective, for the audience that is target as the readers, it should bring them to your world and understand all the views you try to conveyed.

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

During my first semester at Miami, in English 111 class I learned many things about myself as a writer. Just based on the volume of writing accomplished for class, I was able to identify ways to focus on my writing. I learned that listening to music was a way to help drown out all outside noise and to be able to focus on the task at hand. This increased focus allowed me to elaborate more on the ideas that I was trying to portray. The timetable of when some of the papers were due were short, but due to this quick turnaround I was able to learn how to manage my time on assignments and to prioritize certain assignments. Before this class, I didn’t use outlining very much. During this course, using an outline before writing allowed myself to have better organization and structure in my writing than in my previous work.

It is extremely difficult to estimate the amount of knowledge in existence today. While knowledge is flowing in incredible pace, extraction and application of the relevant information from the bulk of knowledge is vital for many aspect of our lives. As an IMBA student in Florida International University, I have never thought that there was such a strict distinction between the information and the knowledge in today’s technology driven world. However, after taken this course, it is quite clear to me that gathering the beneficial information is not an easy task as it seems before. There are crucial elements to obtain valuable information for the businesses. Every business is unique so the strategies for them too.

Past written communication that I have produced, was my mind poured out on paper without organization. Although, not naive of the skills learned in this course, an enforcement or follow-through of the mechanics were of a reachable goal than I have incorporated into my work in the past. Reading others work, I can tell the level of quality influenced the abilities I possessed by saying to myself “Will I be able to write this effective?”, “Why can I not I formulate organized thought to my writing like this person?” Being able to identify with this level of communication and not produce it has discouraged my attempts in writing effective.

Whenever an assignment was given, I used to just write everything that I could think of, similar to a free write. After doing a free write in my scrap notebook, I would then go back and insert examples from the text to further prove my points. After taking this class, I learned that is the incorrect way to write academic papers and that the best way is to make an outline instead so that I can make sure that every point is proven, clear, accurate, and most importantly understandable. I was able to see the improvement of how outlines helped through my first essay. The essay was about picking out an image and explaining its means to the visual context and its impact on culture. My first draft I had learned that I needed to step back and see

Academic writing has always been a struggle for me. I was not consciously aware of how often I used English in my everyday life. Excluding essays, the other material I’ve written would be texts, emails, notes, lists, social media posts, calendar entries, comments, assignments, answering questions, ideas, questions I have, and thoughts. I deplore things out of order and with no clear meaning to them, which is what I thought of English for a long time. After a plethora of writing assignments, I began to discover the structure in writing. I am a structured writer because I take pleasure in planning, I enjoy formulas and, I adore order.

When I write, I dive right into the paper; I do not outline, and I do not write with a clear

Since I was a little girl, I was fascinated with the story of creation in Genesis. I must have been six or seven years old when I read it for the first time from the old Bible of my uncle. I remember being absolutely awestruck by the great power of God who ordered and things came to be. At that time, I imagined the author of the Biblical text as being an eyewitness to the creation and faithfully reporting of what he had seen. The first chapters of the Book of Genesis reflect on the mystery of God, the creator of everything that exists, the creator of heaven and earth. Everything that is, exists because God had

I was always good at writing. My greatest skill in the high school was how I thought in my essays and how broad my ideas were. Throughout the semester, this very same skill has enhanced but I have learned that during the creation of my papers and essays, I still have trouble structuring my ideas properly or having a good transition. My process and forming ideas and writing out those ideas are pretty good( witnessed in my remembering and argumentative essays). But I need to work on structuring my ideas correctly to stretch my ideas better (witnessed in my literary analysis paper). I believe I can work on these skills by continuing my writing process throughout my semesters to come.

To be sure, John, I could never hope to sum up this entire experience in a hundred pages, let alone one or two. That said, this paper will center on the dangers of cliche´, staying in your own lane, and continuous improvement. Despite their seemingly innocuous nature, these particular topics are fundamental aspects of learning any art and cannot be stressed too greatly.

Everyone has their own way they learn best. Some will say they are visual learners, while others say they identify as an auditory leaner. Like learning styles, the same goes for the academic reading, research, and writing process. My personal practices are the result of years practicing, trying to tailor what works best for me. I have discovered the strategies that work well for me through previous experiences which have allowed me to develop my individual method for assigned text readings, research, and writing papers.

On November 17, 2017, I helped Vanessa to get everything ready before had anyone came to watch the dance performance. We got everything ready and helped each group to dress up and make sure nothing was missing. Everything went very well and we also provided lunch for everyone where each of us can get together and it ended at 2pm. I helped Vanessa cleaned up everything and make sure everything was clean when we were done cleaning then we had several staffs, parents, and administrators objected about Fall Festival because some of them felt it was offensive due to cultural appropriation where it showed that they dressed up like another country cultural without having students’ parents signed to permission that Fall Festival should be provided but they did not which it was not appropriate. It helped me learn that it was important to talk to administrators to get their opinions first before asking parents for their permission without feeling cultural appropriation. There were couple challenges that I had to deal with during my internship. I had hard time to communicate with some people who I have been work with. But it helped me to learn that not everyone is good at communication and how can I modify my communicate access with them because it is important to have communication with anyone who I work with. It is important to have communicate with anyone who I work with so we can be on same page without being misunderstanding which it could cause more serious problem if we did not