What I Learned In My Writing Class

When given the quote by Carl Sandburg, "It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?'." When I think about this quote it reminds me of how college began. When I first became a student at Texas State Technical College, I was studying video game design and development. This was a fun a good learning experience, but the real world came crashing down when I started looking into jobs in this market. There was a lack of available jobs and a large competition for the ones that existed. So after a little thinking about who I am, I realized it would be better to switch degrees and take on something more widely available, Web design and development. This was the start of a new path and the only reason I had to come back and take this class.

So I began this class. When asking myself about taking Technical Writing, I just saw it as the "easy way out." Which can be seen in my earlier work in the class. Now as we come to the close of this semester I see it as a brand new learning experience. This class has taught me about proper writing and how to draft up ideas when I need to convey them more properly. This class taught me to look at my skills and find out my writing weaknesses and strengths. Which at first glance I thought I was pretty good at writing to begin with, but now I feel more confident in my ability to write an essay and other technical documents. With the task we faced in this class I learned more about who I was and how I write, which lead to a well versed writer in me. While in this class I took a lot of time reflecting on work I had done in the past and noticing mistakes or errors I made. This was not only for past papers I had written, but other programming I had