Category: Portfolio & Reflection (Page 6 of 15)

Q1: I have learned as a reader how to better analyze quotes and paragraphs. Back when I was younger I always use to read without fully  understanding what I read because I wouldn’t fully focus on what I was reading.

As a writer, I have learned how to better myself in creating my own projects. When I started this class I noticed that the assignments we did were unique than what I had to do in middle school or high school. I had to also

As a scholar, I learned how to improve writing skills and speak on my topics. Throufhout my time in college I’ve learned

Q2: I will be able to use what I have learned this term and transfer that knowledge throughout the rest of my time in college and later on in my future.

Q3: I would say that the work at did in the early semester was easier than what I’m doing now. We just had to analyze quotes and respond to them. Now we have to make a genre about our own topic, which is really interesting. I would say that this is harder to do but if I fully focus on it then it shouldn’t be too hard.

Q4: my favorite assignment was the  RAB because it gave me a chance to talk about something that I personally was interested in. My least favorite assignment was the picking a genre assignment because it was kind of hard to think of one that wasn’t similar to everyone else’s.

Q5: some notable lessons that stuck with me after completing certain assignments was how to use the city tech library to find what I might be looking for and help with my assignments.

Q6: I think what  really changed in my writing was

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Q8: My early assumption about my writing was that I could write well if I really wanted to. Ever since I was in middle school and I had to do essays or projects, I would hate it of course, but I would do it with ease. But right now I do believe that it changed a bit. I do feel my writing improving but I still think that I would still be really good if I actually did put my mind to it.

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I couldn’t fully finish because I accidentally backed out and it erased everything I was adding in.

Q6-As the genres changed my writing has changed by writing in different ways like for the first time I wrote an article which to me was different because I was so used to writing essays that I never got to explore other writing genres like an article. For the assignments I think my writing has changed by making me following more of the writing prompts that were given to for the assignment because for some it was lengthy and required more for you to write and others less, also I write a lot more after doing these genres and assignment because I have never written something that requires more than 750 or 1,000 words.

Q7-For my assignments when it came to making decisions and content I usually look up other writer on how they make their content because usually when I do that I gain some insightful information as well as giving me inspiration so then I can do what I need to do for my assignments. Also after looking at other people content I then brainstorm and write out what I can do different for my assignment that was given to me.

Q8-My early assumption that I made on myself for writing was that I can never write something that concludes over 700 words or even 1,000 because for me that was a lot of words I have never written that much and when I was doing the assignments for this class and saw the word count I thought it was too many words and I can never be able to complete it. I could say not that has changed well it all depends on the topic I am writing about because if the topic contains a lot of information then it’s possible for me to write more but I think the fear of writing so much with a high word count is gone.

Q9-My experience on revising assignments was I would say not great because for me if I have written something I never look back at again and just keep it on how it is because I never really revising in the first place and so when there are times when I had to revise I do a little and that’s about it, I never look back at my work after it has been handed in.

Q10-For this course in this semester the most challenging was my assignments and was I going to do all of them and handing them on time. I say this because I always do my assignments on the day of when the assignments are due. I am not sure why I do this but every time this always happens also for handing the assignments on time I was really bad at but now its slowly getting better. As for doing all of the assignments I sometimes forget to do all like I say I would do it but then when the times comes I completely forgot and I sometimes don’t know why this happens.

Q1.I have learned about myself as a reader is I get distracted while trying to read for a long time. I would plan to read an article but two paragraphs in I will get distracted and then forget the place where I was just reading at . I am finding way to overcome this problem of mine. For example after every paragraph I read I would take a break to collect myself and think about what I just read. This has worked so far that I haven’t had any major troubles with reading article yet although I would look my thought while reading once in a while. As a writer I learned that my work has not been structured as well as its supposed to. While rereading my own work I noticed there were parts in my writing that I could have worded and explained better. This is a problem I still have but I am getting close to finding out how can I solve this problem of mine. As a scholar I notice that I still procrastinate on some work. I still find myself still waiting till the last two days to do my work. This leads to me not having enough time to look it over and give it a better shot. Its a problem I still have and I haven’t figured out a way to get rid of it. Applying myself more and being more dedicated is a start to ending this problem.

Q2.I will use the knowledge I have learned into my other work by incorporating better evidence as to provide back up. while writing finding a great piece of evidence will make your work even better. During college I will have to write even more than u did this year so every hung I leaned this year will greatly help me in the future. For example during Unit 1 my essay helped me go into more detail while I am writing.A piece from unit 1 I put was “.I wasn’t doing with the homeworks I was given because of laziness. So, after class I had my programming teacher wanted to speak with me.I was really nervous because I knew what he wanted to talk about, but I didn’t want to talk about it.”. I try to go into detail about how I was feeling during this interaction between myself and my teacher.Since it was the beginning of the semester it is not as good as work I could have written now.

Q3.I could compare my work from the beginning to now by looking to see I can see how much my style of writing has been improving.Befire my writing was not the best it could have been. Now it has been improving everyday but it is not close to being as best as it could be. Every time I start writing it get closer to being a good as it can be. I have also noticed that my grammar mistakes are becoming less. At the beginning of the semester there would be a lot of grammar mistakes and while revising I would never notice it.Now I see myself making less mistakes and whenever I do during my revision I notice it and change it for the better.

Q4.My favorite assignment was” Navigating Genres”. This was my favorite because I got to look at more types of genres. I got to talk about my favorite genre which was action and fiction. Since the assignment included something I was interested in I was more invested In it than any of the other assignments.

Q5. Some notable lessons that have stuck with me is the article written by Donald M. Murray called “The Maker’s Eye”. It gave me a new way to look after my work after I completed it. In the past As soon as I finished with the essay I would look over it once then assumed it was acceptable, but after reading “The Maker’s Eye” I changed. Now with any of the work I submit I look at it two times all from different view points. One as a writer and one as a reader that way I think how a reader would think while reading my work.

Q6.The way I read my writing while going through genre assignments has made it improve. in the past while reading, I didn’t try to dig deeper in order to make sure people understand what I wrote. I was not thinking like a reader I should have been. After going through the genre assignments I understood how I should have been reading my writing.First I should stop thinking like the person who wrote it, that way I can see if it makes sense without know any prior context. Then I also have to see if my writing would classify under the genre I was aiming for. if it didn’t then I will see what needed to be changed, added or even taken away. After that when I check again to see how if it any good, If not I’ll repeat the process until it is.

Q8.My early assumptions about writing was having the sentences form together in other to make sense to a reader. Another assumption I had was about myself. I thought I needed to provide evidence and that would explain the work that I’m doing.  As of now both of my assumptions have been wrong. Writing is more than forming sentences together. Its about how you structure them as well. Knowing how to structure your writing will make your work even better than it can be. It can flow together making the work easier to read understand. When writing, providing evidence is not enough, you have to explain the evidence that you just put and why did you put it. Its better to assume that the reader is a blank slate and you have to help them  understand since they probably never read any other work.

Q10. The most challenging part about the course this semester was reaching the word requirement on each essay. Every time I had to reach a word requirement I would struggle because I couldn’t just put any words or else the whole essay gets messed up. I was somewhat able to over come this by explaining into even more detail about evidence I provided and about the work I have written.