Writing and Rhetoric Reflection

Writing and Rhetoric 102 Reflection
In the course of this semester of writing, I grew more than I ever had in my ability to write well. I remember on the first day of class several other students were talking about how hard this writing professor is. I was a bit worried and even thought about switching to an easy professor for a guarantee A so I can get a 4.0. Now, I am grateful that I chose to decide to work hard for a 4.0 instead. Even though I may not get it, I am still glad I stayed because for once, I learned and became a better writer. I can see that my knowledge of conventions definitely improved from last semester. I really loved the feedback for my assignments, since it allows me to realize what I need to improve on and what I should keep doing. Unlike the previous semester, the writing professor only told us our grade on the very first assignment after two months. There were no feedback on how I could improve either, so I had no idea if I was having trouble with anything. Prior to this course, I always had trouble writing sentences and organizing them in such a way that flows and delivers my idea well. I also rarely outline or plan out how I will write a paper too, and even when I did, it was very vague. Out of the five learning outcomes, I grew the most in rhetoric knowledge and writing process from the reading responses and 4 assignment.

Letter to the editor
The letter to the Editor was a pretty difficult assignment for me because I had a 150 word limit. With so few words to work with, I had to put my focus on cutting out as many words as I can while keeping my ideas clear. Unfortunately this led to some grammatical mistakes. Even if I did stay focused on my grammar, I would probably still have made the mistakes with...

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...forget to use articles now and then, I can see that it has improved since the beginning of the semester. I just have to keep practicing exercises and write more so that it becomes automatic. On the contrary, I was consistent with staying focused on my argument and being organized so the reader could follow along easily. I will continue to follow the writing process and put my ideas together before I start writing to write the best I can. I will also be sure to follow a timeline for writing a paper so I would not have to deal with cramming everything in a few days, or even one day. Since I will not have any writing classes in the next two years, to improve my writing I recently subscribed to the economist. I plan to read and summarize their articles to practice my writing, reading, and comprehension skills, at the same this would help prepare me to take the MCAT too.