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My Writing Style Reflection

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Starting off the year, I was and still am, very intimidated of a college level writing course. Since it was an engineering based writing class, my worries eased up a bit. When I attended the first class I didn’t know anything over the technical communication writing style. Slowly I developed an understanding over the writing style by reading the text book and other supplemental readings.
When our group (Construction Management and Nursing) was assigned with the first group project, I was able to apply what I’ve learned so far in the class. After receiving the first project back, I was surprised to receive such a low grade, being that our group put a lot of effort into it. Once we understood what we did wrong, my technical communication started …show more content…

I would also like to learn how to create professional graphics, where readers can comprehend the information with ease. Another thing I would like to learn is being able to create a very attractive, and accessible website for my own dream construction business.
There are actually several skills that I would like to enhance, one of them is my sentence structure. My sentence structure is very weak, I tend to find myself making no sense, and I can even spot it, but don’t really know how to go about the sentences. Along with my sentence structure, I would like to improve my paragraph structure as well, it seems like I am all over the place when writing. Improving these skills will help my organization in writing papers, as well as making them comprehensive.
Overall, my technical communication has significantly improved from not knowing anything over the course to being able to write a technical document to the public with ease. This course has also helped me more into the role of my career for society. Before, I was mare focused on what I need to do to reach me dream career and what type of work I would be doing then the problems that need to be fixed, for example, the grand challenge of how to improve and restore urban

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