During this semester, I have learned a lot about myself as a writer and as student. There were times where I got assignments where I struggled and didn’t know how to start writing and felt confused, but I was able to persevere and get a good grade as well. My least favorite assignment was homework 9/7. This homework had us picture an incident that changed our view on education and to describe the scene. I don’t have a good memory and I am not a very detail-oriented person so it was hard for me to write all the details I could from the experience I had years ago. Something that I have learned about myself as a writer/scholar this semester is that I am a good writer I just have to focus on certain aspects of my writing in order to be even better. What I can work on is learning how to incorporate quotes in my writing and also learning how to properly cite. The techniques I have learned in this class are definitely going to be used in my other classes. For example, the IQIAA method which teaches you when and how you can use and introduce quotes in your writing. Another thing I will be using to my advantage is the grammar workshops we did. I will use the sheets we were given in class in order to properly write any papers in the future and fix my grammar mistakes in order to be more articulate.

As a student, I have always felt like my writing was missing something. I never knew what exactly but it just felt like I never wrote my very best. As the semester kept progressing and we kept getting more assignments, this feeling didn’t exactly change but I was starting to see a pattern in my writing. I always have trouble starting my papers but as soon as I have a clear outline on what I’m going to write and how, I am able to write a lot and consistently. After noticing this, I now know that in order for me to start writing a paper is to have an outline and plan out how exactly I want to introduce my points in the paper. This way I can find adequate evidence and feel like my points are backed up and are not missing any key ideas. Another thing I want to work on for future assignments is my conclusion. Every time I write a paper I feel like my conclusion is the weakest part of it. I have trouble wrapping up the essay without repeating myself a lot of times and making it boring for the reader. For my RAB, I was struggling with writing my conclusion. I had said, ” I think I might need a little help with my conclusion but I hope to get some feedback that can help me when we do peer review.” In the end, I was able to get some feedback which helped me a lot because I ended up getting a 5/5 on my conclusion. I do believe that when I get feedback and or some pointers on my writing it helps me do better because many times there are things in my writing that I don’t notice but others do.

My experience revising assignments was very enlightening. It was surprising to see the little things I missed on my papers that my peers noticed or my professor noticed that I didn’t. For example, in my annotated bibliography I failed to correctly cite many sources. The correct way was supposed to be MLA and I cited in APA instead. It made me see that I need to pay more attention to my work and revise everything before turning anything in. At the beginning of the semester, for one of the homeworks we had to read an article and a response to it and how we could use the skills we read about. I had said, “Something Bunn did in his writing that I want to try to do in my own writing is starting my essay with a question or a quote that gives context or is related to what my piece is going to be about. This way I can capture the reader’s attention and prompt them to read more.” WHile revising my assignments, I realized that this is something I failed to do in my papers. I kind of did it in my RAB but I didn’t do it more often. I would like to try this technique in my future writing in order to find better ways to get my reader’s attention.