Reflection Of Technical Writing Experiences In Tuesdays With Morrie

This portfolio will be comprised of several of my original written pieces from both

English Composition 112 and 112. During both semesters I was able to reach enlightenment through my writing using many technical writing skills that I learned throughout the course of

Dual Enrollment English as a whole. My main English weaknesses during my beginning semester were focused around verb usage, diction, content (mainly from research), and organization (through beginning, middle, and end). Although, towards the end of English

Composition 112, I seemed to have mastered most of these weaknesses and they were now my newfound strengths in writing overall. I still wish to strengthen and overall improve my diction.

Throughout this first semester of English

After reading just the first chapter of the book Tuesdays with Morrie I knew I would be entirely engaged to write an exceptional expository essay afterwards. Throughout my writing process I began to gather much needed material on my author and book itself. While picking out certain excerpts from Tuesdays with Morrie along my journey of reading this novel, I was able to quantify my writing process as a whole. Firstly, of course after reading my novel, I began a web of a plethora of possible ideas on which direction I wanted to take through this expository paper.

After writing my rough draft I then submitted it to smarthinking and received my report back in no time. After going over the report I did not make any changes yet and opted to rather share my paper with a few of my classmates and accumulate their feedback along with the smarthinking report and then write my final draft. This seemed to work surprisingly well for me and provided me with a lot of feedback to go off of for my final writing of my paper. Through the course of writing my expository paper I gained many different writing skills along the way. I