Reflection On My Writing

Writing The Writing 121 course presented a lot of challenges that I had to overcome in order to become better as a writer. One thing I found very challenging, was adjusting rhetorical situations to a given condition. When writing the Inquiry paper, I had trouble finding what subject geared toward other college students to write about, while trying to keep concepts like Kairos, Ethos, and Pathos in mind. Another challenge I had to face was organizing the word choice in my papers. Writing the research paper, made organizing word choice difficult because of the length it was required to be. The first draft I wrote was very redundant, not just in sentence structure, but in word choice as well. To get past this obstacle, I had to use more complex words found

I learned that papers with true meaning and background knowledge take time to write. The Inquiry piece is a writing assignment that is fairly easy to conduct, however if it is not written with care and background, it will turn out weak. When I turned the first portfolio submission in, I thought I did fairly well. I ended up with a B- on the final product of that project. I could’ve done better if I continued to explain details I touched on, but I didn’t elaborate to fully extend its meaning. Doing the Research paper, I learned the process of conducting a college level research piece. Writing a college level essay, requires complex background and multiple sources to come to an agreement or consensus. To extend a paper to its most capable length, you have to expand you information. Finding holes in the patterns of your research helps with this. The most important lesson I learned, is being able to adjust your writing to present it to an audience. At the CSW, I found that my genre along with my topic came out somewhat well. People were able to understand what I was saying after simplifying complex