Reflections on Past Work

Writing properly can be very challenging for a new student embarking on being a scholarly, professional writer. Before starting assignments, it is important to read very broadly about the main topics of the assignment, and also read the specific chapters listed in the assignment, because they will guide a student’s thoughts in developing a paper.

While the authors of these essays execute remarkable examples of rhetorical analyses, I myself could definitely improve on my own essays. For instance, my writing can be vague, especially when explaining how the rhetorical

The six course goals of this English 109W course are to Engage in writing as a process that includes planning, revision, and editing based on feedback from peers and instructors; Critically read and analyze academic texts; Understand, identify, and analyze the rhetorical situations of academic texts, including their contexts, audiences, purposes and personas; Understand, identify, and analyze the rhetorical situations of academic texts, which may include genre, format, evidence, citation, style and organization; Develop an awareness of and preparedness for the writing they will do through their majors through research, exploration, and or practice of the discourse community’s conventions; and Engage in formal and informal writing that analyzes and critically reflects on their major’s writing conventions and their own writing practices and choices. I perceive that I have achieved all the goals for this course through the various drafts I composed, polished papers I produced, and the supplemental work that I have selected to include enclosed within my portfolio.

    To begin, the reading selection was a great piece for me to help recall all the past knowledge I have on writing. Throughout the years I have taken multiple English and writing courses that have exemplified most of what corresponded with the book. However,

This course has helped me enhance my writing abilities and display the rhetorical purpose of my essays. Coming from Lebanon, this course has definitely been a challenge, yet I believe I have learned a great deal this semester. This course encouraged me to engage in ideas of my own that I discovered throughout my writings. The articles I have read challenged me intellectually allowing me to view a writer’s perspective on a specific topic. The engagement with my classmates and the feedback given during this class gave me the opportunity to extend my thinking abilities. The two main techniques that I have learned this semester is; identifying the purpose of my writing, integrating evidence from my articles and supporting my statements.

This is the second writing course I’ve taken in college, and it has ultimately helped with my writing abilities. Something significant that I have learned throughout this course, which I didn’t previously know, is the complete writing process. I was unaware of the distancing period. This certainly helped give me a renewed outlook of what I was trying to accomplish in my essays. Similarly, this course has brought to my attention revising resources I was unaware of. I found the smarthinking website to be very useful in completing my essays, and I know it will be beneficial for future

As the end of freshman year of college approaches, it become easier to see how much a person can change in just one year. It is necessary for a person to see this change in oneself to determine where they have improved, what still needs improvement, and unfortunately, in what ways they have gotten worse. Although it is easy to state that a self-analysis is necessary, it is not easy to identify specifically what and why something is being done wrong. Needless to say that identifying what has been improved is an even greater challenge. Professor Shaw-Tillmon has been an immense help to me since the start, beginning in WRC 1013 all the way to present. By using clear and specific remarks, she has helped me see and understand the flaws in my writing.

Over the course of the semester we have written multiple papers with an assortment of topics. Writing the various papers has expanded my writing skills because each paper required different skills to satisfy the requirements of the paper. Through the various strategies we have learned in class I have improved my writing tremendously through using clear and precise language, considering feedback, and incorporating and explaining evidence.

Throughout the year of writing in this class I do believe my skills have improved from where they were at the beginning of the year. I like how as we learned new writing techniques it would be a requirement in the next writing project. This helped me practes the technique by using it in my writing. The difficulty of the writing this semester was at a good place I was challenged but it wasn’t so hard I was hopeless. As a writer I have enjoyed this class and pieces we have written in it. One of the reasons why is the Into the Wild essay. With this essay I was pulled in. I pushed myself to do better than any of my other writing this year, and with the new skills from next semester I hope I can do the same.

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

At the beginning of the semester, my writing skills, lack luster and need to be improved. Prewriting was big a improvement switch made preparing essays sound better. The rewriting also helps the ideas and thoughts of mine come to live for my essays. The editing and proofreading help correct all the mistakes in my essay, which were made and directed my essay for the final draft. Reading the chapters in the book give me an example of how the focus of the next essay should sound. The activities in class

Advanced Composition I propelled me into the world of professional writing. Through this class, I learned and improved my writing skills in an enormous way. This course has pushed and pulled me in ways I never anticipated. Although this class challenged me, it prepared me for my future the best of any course I have taken. To review this class, I must look at my effort, what I learned, valuable lessons, the structure of the class, my progress, advice from the class and final thoughts.

Since the beginning of the semester, my writing has changed and evolved to accommodate and sustain longer essays. With longer essays, there is more room for in-depth analysis. Further analyzing a topic has led me to findings that I did not know existed. As I continue to write, I uncover addition and superior methods to approach my writing to the benefit of me and therefore, my audience. Throughout the semester, I have incorporated techniques to further my narrative throughout my writing.

In Quarter 4, I wrote literary analysis, one hundred word sentence, a canterbury tale, division and classification paper, and research paper. For the literary analysis, though I was familiar with the style from previous high school english classes, I struggled with the paper. I found myself frustrated with the time limit as with more time, I feel I could have done a better job. However, considering the time limit, I am pleased with the amount of detail and support I was able to put into the paper. The literary analysis met my standards as it was the best of ability given the time restriction, and it was satisfying to know I could complete an entire analysis in an hour and a half. One hundred word sentence was completely new to me as I had never attempted something like this before. While it was frustrating at times figuring out how to add more detail in the same sentence, I greatly enjoyed the assignment. I liked being able to make a story as well as improving my grammar skills. In the end, the one hundred word sentence was extremely satisfying to complete and meet my standards as it was grammatically correct while still being interesting. Unlike the one hundred word sentence, the canterbury tale was extremely frustrating for me as I struggled to get the lines to rhyme while having enough syllables and flow well. While I love to write poetry, I much prefer free form so this was a learning curve for me. Having completed the tale, I am proud of my work since it

Awareness of the outside world is gained through perception. Self awareness is gained through reflection and evaluation of these perceptions. By reflecting on our past experiences, we give ourselves an outside perspective from a more knowledgeable version of ourselves. Reflecting on past experiences can help us better understand oneself by giving us a different perspective on our reality. This theme is demonstrated in “Marigolds”, William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper”, and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone.