English 1010 Course Reflection

Dear members of the First-Year Writing Assessment Committee,

During the English 1010 course, I have learned many new things about writing. Some of those things are learning that you set the format for your own paper and that there is much more to writing than just writing about some random topic. The English 1010 course has made me look at writing from a whole new aspect. Some of the things that I learned while writing the literacy narrative is that everyone has literacy sponsors, no matter how big or how small they affected their reading and writing. The English 1010 course has helped me learn to identify how an author’s purpose and their audience determines whether writing is effective or not. Determining whether or not, writing is effective is determined by what the author’s purpose is. For example, if the author’s purpose is to persuade someone to buy a product then the effectiveness is determined by if the person bought the product. Although determining

I have always produced a first draft, then, perfected the second. Finally, I perfected the final draft to the best of my abilities. The first and last draft is always the most important to me. The first draft is getting the words on the page and hoping that I can go into detail on whatever the topic is. For example, the discourse community analysis was easier for me to write than the academic writing research paper because the discourse community analysis was an explanation of what I take place in and do every day. With the writing process and knowing how to apply it to my writing, I was able to have a much better product in the end. The writing process may take a very long time to complete, but it is definitely worth the time because of the end result. The writing process is very important, but there are many other things that are important too. One of the things that is most important is being able to compose an organized