SLO Reflection (Part 3)

This final blog post is mean to reflect on me as a writer and how I perceived myself at the beginning to the course compared to now. In my intial blog post, I compared myself to a year round high school athlete who excels in the various sports they participate in. In terms of writing, that would mean that I do well in the different types of writing. At this point in time I realize that I may not have excelled as well as I initially thought. Mainly with argumentive writing, I struggled on my first research essay by summarizing more than arguing. Thus I spent alot of energy making sure I could argue a point better through words and this is the aspect I believe I improved the most on through this class. An element of writing that was somewhat new to me was rhetorical awareness or being able to jump into an already occuring argument. Being new to me, this is the point I believe I should monitor in future writing since I've never really thought much of it before the class. The class will benefit me in the future by making rhetorical awareness an element worth looking at.

SLO Reflection (Part 2)

This blog post serves the purpose of reflecting on my critical thinking and writing skills. I honestly believe that through the class my critical thinking skills have become better. Particularly, the use of the "precis" as an assignment allowed me to better identify what the main points of text were as well as supporting points and the reasons behind the text being written in the first place.I also believe that the ability to synthesize multiple writings into one argument was also developed through this class mainly due to the research papers we had to write. I definitely improved my writing in the class. On the first research paper, I did more summarizing than argument and I truly hoped to fix that. I came back with the 2nd essay and based on feedback I had made a big turnaround by having highly defined argumentation as well as analysis.

SLO Reflection (Part 1)

This blog post serves the purpose of reflecting on the objectives for the class and seeing if I've improved in those aspects. Particularly for this post I'll be focusing on Close Reading and Research. In terms of close reading I believe I have improved through various activities provided in the class. Particularly, the task of having to create a precis for the main readings definitely helped. I believe that is the main thing that helped with my reading. For the precis we essentially have to effectively summarize a piece of writing be it an article or an entire book and the precis is definitely a tool I'll take to heart in future reading. Research wise, I dont believe I improved too much. This isnt due to the class though. I did learn how to use the UWT database to find viable sources and that will defeinitly benefit me in the future. Aside from that, i dont believe my research process was affected much. Nonetheless I indeed benefited from this class and hope to retain everything I've learned in the future.

"Performance, Feedback, Revision"

To me revision is just going back through a paper I've written and improving it in as many aspects as possible. For starters, grammar is usually the initial revision and with this I tend to check if the paper flows well based on the words I use to get my point across. Aside from flow I also look at the points I have highlighted and decide whether I want to keep those points in the first place. After getting feedback, some points may not be viable anymore and thus I feel I should change up my writing. Along with the revision comes the sense of precision as well because by that time you know exactly what you want to say and are able to 'clean' up your writing so it fits  your criteria.