Reflective Essay: The Progression Of My Work

At first I was not sure what I should put, but then when I starting thinking about it, it came pretty easily. However I did have a difficult time thinking about what I can’t change because I try not to focus on that.

When I communicate, I will focus on what my audience needs or wants to learn, not on what I feel like telling them. Strive to see things from their perspective. Writing is a complex mixture of skills which works best for me by breaking down the process. The writing process involves a series of steps to follow such as pre-writing, drafting, editing, and publishing. I found that by focusing on the process of writing, I learn to write successfully. Developing the act of writing down into distinct steps allows me to maintain perspective on my writing, to understand that the feedback is about a specific aspect of my writing, and to discover that I can master and yes, even enjoy writing! Plagiarism content symbolizes that you have not worked carefully

My writing is still in progress because I have some things that I am proud of and there are also some features in my writing that needs to be fixed. For example, I am proud of myself working hard to get a good score in my first major essay by making lots of revisions and making sure I have a plan before I write. Next, I am also proud of my second mini essay ( which was a speech to convince authorities). I am proud of this piece of work because not only did I get a good score, I used Logos, Pathos,and Ethos correctly in my speech. This work proved that I can use rhetorical appeals in a way to persuade my audience. In addition, I am proud of some of my creative prompts. I remember I had a prompt about what happen last night. In this prompt I

In English Composition this year I have learned a lot about myself as a writer, I am writing this essay to reflect on how I have grown as a writer. I have had a short time at Chana, but in that time I have written many extended responses about various topics, two short stories, and a research paper on Project MKULTRA. I have grown as a writer in doing all of these papers and stories.

Assessing my work is rather easy for me. I am extremely self-critical, to the point, it difficult to be positive. I always hoped and had been told I write well, especially on the job. In this short amount of time during class, I have learned how “low-level” my writing truly is. I write on more of an eighth-grade level instead of at the high school or college level I want to. I have probably forgotten more grammar/punctuation than most people I deal with even know. My grammar/punctuation is laughable; I only remember the easy stuff. Even though I use the thesaurus regularly to improve my vocabulary, my memory seems not to retain it.

When looking back over the previous microthemes and papers I can see how far I have come as a writer. At the beginning of the semester I was a poor writer who could not grasp the important aspects of writing. I had many grammatical errors along with many underdeveloped thoughts. Even though this class was only for a short period of time in order to learn how to write a proper academic paper, I can see how far I have come. My papers may still be sub-par but in many aspects have come a long way. I no longer have as many grammatical errors and can further express my thoughts in a paper. Also by taking this class I have further developed revision skills by learning new tricks such as reading out loud and writing thoughts out as a brainstorming

Prior to the start of the ENG-122 course, if a co-worker had read something that I had wrote and told me that they didn’t understand what I was trying to say, I would have thought that they were just giving me a hard time or just being picky. I would have said to myself, “I don’t have time for this” or, “what do they not understand?” I didn’t realize that I didn’t provide enough detailed information and that my writing was not clear. Whenever I write something, I can now see when my sentences don’t flow or if my paragraphs do not transition well. Sometimes I find myself moving sentences around so that it makes more sense.

When I was younger creative writing was my strongest link, but as the assignments and requirements grew harder I lost my touch and began to struggle. After taking both English courses I can definitely say that it has helped me grow as a writer and as person. Before entering English courses I knew very little about writing. In my high school classes, I was taught how to write but was never taught how to do correct formatting, citing, and did not know the importance of writing in general. Thankfully, after getting my feet wet, I learned as much as I possibly could so that I could be knowledgeable for future assignments, and now I understand how important everything having to do with writing is. My two college English courses have taught me more than I learned throughout my four years in high school.

Although I do not have extensive experience with young children during my B.S.W. studies, I developed the knowledge and skills needed to conduct through interview with clients. I learned how to do assessments on clients and evaluating them properly. I have conducted interventions on clients while recording documentation and reporting the information properly. I have gained the strengths to advocate services for clients. I have learned how to access and deliver the best approaches to further help clients receive services based upon their situations. I have mainly worked with adults with disabilities or addictions. At my internship during my senior year, I gained practical experience in hemodialysis setting by conducting interviews with clients,established

I am not a big fan of writing papers because writing is one of my weakest point. The interpretive essay was a struggle for me and I also didn't know how to put my paper in MLA style. During my first draft I had no clue as to what to write. When I was writing the first draft of the interpretive essay I felt like I was explaining the story instead of interpreting it in my own understanding so I decide not to turn the paper in. When I spoke with Professor Ryan Clark, he told me to write whatever that comes to my mind and that the first draft doesn't have to be perfect; after the talk with him I decided to start on my draft. The first draft took me about 6 hours to complete. During the 6 hours process of writing the paper I change pages that

My drafting process was unusual, in order to correct myself I read again and again what i wrote already until I knew what part and how to fix my grammar and the concepts that I could use to replace the existing ones, sometimes when it was too difficult to understand an error I would write it down on a piece of paper and then find a way to paraphrase it by adding some clarity and justification to my writing. While editing I mainly used the notes written on the first drafts that i submitted and also by reading some parts of it to my peers to get some feedback and to know if my sentence structure is correct.

America is a place full of immigrants with no single ethnicity or race. America can also be referred to as the ?Melting Pot? because it consists ingredients of multicultural backgrounds. There are cultures such as French American, Asian American, Italian American and African American. I am Mexican American. My culture has helped me to become the writer I am today. My bicultural background and constant moving back and forth from Mexico to America has both influenced and weakened my writing. Although I was born in America, my Mexican culture has always been a part of my life. I have spent the majority of my life in Mexico, and Spanish is my first

I organized my own work and volunteer experience including a course I took in high school working with student special needs; assisting in lessons, particularly with reading and math. Taking them to the outside, showing them how to shop and be able to pay for their items. This gave me an insight into how different disabilities impacted on the lives of the children, for some it affected concentration whilst others were unable to hold a pen properly. I want the opportunity to work with people to overcome such problems. I also work at a hospital. Where I a Certified Nursing Assistant, I spent time talking to patients as well as helping them with the activities of daily living. Many patients had dementia and communicating with them allowed me to

This book was not my first choice. I settled on reading “The Tipping Point” before I stumbled upon this one. “The Tipping Point” was interesting but soon got repetitive and annoying to read. As I walked into my local library to return the book, “The New York Nobody Knows” stood out on the “featured” shelf. The first thought that came to mind was, “how could there possibly be anything I don’t know about my own city?” Although it is a long book, I checked it out and began reading. It turns out that there are numerous things I didn’t know about New York.

During the course of the quarter, I feel that I have progressed somewhat. I've gained a lot of knowledge on rhetorical strategies and how to present arguments effectively. In the writings I have written, I feel that each writing works towards meeting the course goals. Logos, ethos, and pathos were strategies and ideas we were introduced to (if not already in the past) and were built upon throughout the quarter. The knowledge gained over the course of the quarter weren't only those three types of appeals. Rhetorical strategies like proposals helped reinforce the course and using rhetorical analysis in different situations have become easier throughout the quarter. I believe that I have made sufficient progress towards becoming a better