Rhetorical Situation

Over the course of this semester, I have progressed as a writer. Picking up new skills and dropping old bad habits has transformed me into a much better writer than when I entered the English 101. Entering this class, the only English classes that I took were mandatory high school classes all four years. In these classes, however, content was focused on reading novels, poems, and literature. There was usually only one major writing assignment each year, which was a research paper on a topic that was given by our teachers. Although there was some writing involved in these classes, most of the class time was spent on improving my reading and comprehension skills. A small part of the class was given to improve my skills as a writer and even a researcher. In English 101, however, most of the class time was spent on writing and more specifically, academic writing. This includes doing proper research, picking a worthy topic to write about, correctly analyzing sources, and developing a well-rounded, complete paper. I have progressed a writer over the semester by effectively integrating and analyzing sources better, and being more specific with my words.
Throughout this semester, I gained skills learned in class and through peer evaluations that improved my writing skills to make my papers more academic. In the beginning of the semester, I was still using old skills that I had in high school for my papers. I would just add sources randomly in papers. This evidence would not flow with the rest of the paper. After adding the evidence from a source, I would just summarize the quote or sentence. I would not analyze or explain how it supports the paragraph and the paper. One example of me committing this is in the Gabriel Summary assignment. ...

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...thout any evidence. To fix this, I added more resources, evidence, and information to support these claims. My paper would not be believable if the claims were not supported with evidence. One example of where I fixed this problem was in the cheating paragraph. I added a statistic to boost my claim and give myself more credibility on what I was talking about. Another example of where I added evidence was in the paragraph about technology lowering college costs. Before, this paragraph was just statements and claims. To correct this, I added more information with evidence to show that this claim was true. Overall, I made a great deal of revision based on knowledge that I gained after writing this paper. These revisions include fixing grammatical errors, adding or removing information, removing wordiness and repetition, and adding more evidence to support my claims.