Reflective Essay

Writing is an important process which allows you to communicate professionally and academically, in an effective manner. Therefore, when writing it can be applied to any situation. It is best described when you are interacting between persons, places, and things. However, when taking ENG 3010, the main focus in the course was to analyze your academic major or future profession. More importantly, you had to learn how to identify different genres and how to develop your writing skills for particular contexts, purposes, and target audiences. When writing in these various scenarios, I found it to be a bit challenging. I was faced with these challenges only because I was unfamiliar with the writing situations. It was different from any other English course because the approaches suggested that you write for an audience only in your major. But with focusing on my writing skills within my discourse community, I was able to take my writing to a different level. The challenges that I faced became knowledge. It has helped me to ensure that all of my papers have balance and are well organized. As a result, I have developed strong skills with identifying modes of writing and communicating in my discourse community, research skills such as: writing a research proposal, literature review, annotated bibliography and proposing a working thesis. With these skills that I have developed from this course, I will be able to achieve the goals that are needed in my future classes and in the workplace after college.
The first learning outcome in this course is to produce writing that demonstrated my ability to identify, describe, and analyze various occasions for writing, genres, conventions, and audiences in my discipline or profession from a rhetori...

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...rove on the next project. I believe some of the ways that I improve was by the organization of my paper. I’ve learned the proper way to make my paper flow correctly. In Project I, the organization was horrible. I felt like I could not find the correct way to transition my paragraphs, so it seem like I continued to jump from topic to topic without producing a good transition word to make everything flow. However, towards the end of the semester that was something that I worked on and it shows throughout the rest of my work.
In the end, ENG 3010 has taught me different strategies for writing in my discourse community. At first, it was a bit challenging because I was unfamiliar with the writing situations. However, this writing experience is something that I am grateful that I learn. With these strategies I will be able to use them in future classes and the workplace.