Partaking in this course has really helped me improve as a writer. Prior to taking this course I wasn’t really confident in my writing abilities. I often didn’t stay true to what was asked of me to do but the more writing exercises that we did the better i grew as a writer. The writer I am now is not the same one I was a couple of weeks ago. The writing assignments that we have completed were not the traditional writing that I have been accustomed to so they really brought me out my comfort zone and helped me grow as a writer. The way I approach writing is very different now and that is shown throughout the pieces of writing that I have done this semester. This course has really helped me with ir comes to the way I brainstorm and putt together my work. I always use to put emphasis on my brainstorms which often took time away from actually writing but i’ve learned that with brainstorm you can just write anything and you just build up from there, That approach has really helped me spend more time on the writing itself and what is required of me.
I feel that the writings and assignments that I have done really highlights the course learning objectives that was required of us. The classmate interview that we recently completed was one of my favorite writing assignments that I’ve done because it was very different from any other assignment that I’ve written. The classmate interview really highlighted one of our course learning objectives which was acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility. The classmate interview required as us to learn about one another differences and to make an understanding of their views. We were able to teach one another something new. I think that the more writing pieces we did and the blackboard discussions really helped me enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment. First drafts and free writing really helped me identify the type of writer that I was and label my strengths and weakness. Another objective that the classmate interview satisfied was developing and engaging in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes because I had to engage in a conversation with my partner and from what I gathered from them I would have to write about it.
I feel like most of the writing i did required that I take a stance in my writings and some of these writings i will showcase in my writing portfolio. When it came to my subculture assignment I learned how to practice using various library resources, online databases, and the Internet to locate sources appropriate to your writing projects because I had to research my particular subculture and gather information from different places to better help me understand them. The last assignment that we did which was the online community was also an assignment that I liked because we researched a community online that we found intriguing. I feel that it highlighted an objective which was to strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources) because I had to research my community and practice analyzing, summarizing the information that I gathered.
Engaging in genre analysis and multimodal composing to explore effective writing across disciplinary contexts and beyond was one of the objectives that I wish i placed more emphasis on. I felt like I needed to do better when it came to genre analysis. Overall this course was very beneficial it allowed me to grow as a writer and implement new things in my writing processes.
