Reflecting back to the beginning of the semester, I believe I have improved a lot in my awareness while writing. While editing my papers, I have found improvement in my bad habits and overall phrasing of sentences. I would usually have to go back and deconstruct some of my sentences, but now I have found myself doing less of that and focusing in on less of the basics and more of the transitional and organizational aspects. Before, I did not use a lot of transitions from paragraph to paragraph or even with sentences. Now, I have become a lot more aware to make my overall paper flow in an organized way. I still have improvement to make, but I believe listening to the lectures on how to make a paper more uniform has really helped me a lot. A …show more content…
I feel extremely more comfortable with APA than I did at the beginning. I am finding myself knowing the correct format on the spot instead of referring back to the manual like I did at the beginning of the year. I feel very confident on making references pages and using in-text citations for paraphrasing. Since I am new, I do forget some rules, for example, quoting phrases out of the text I have read. I’ve noticed I rarely use quotes in my writings and I would like to improve on using them whether it’s how to use them correctly or finding a quote that’s relevant to what I’m talking about. Overall, and I have received a lot of practice this semester with APA in classes other than English and I feel a lot more confident for the …show more content…
This semester I started editing in a way that makes me sounds more professional so that I am using non-passive language and also the correct words. Before, I would misplace words and use passive or undescriptive words like “thing” or “good”, but I have become more aware. This makes your paper sound not only professional, but it also doesn’t make your text as boring and dull. I do like the peer reviews we do because it’s always nice to have a fresh set of eyes to look at your paper, so I do like other people’s feedback and suggestions. I may be missing a tiny grammatical error, or a sentence may only make sense to me and not the person