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Self-Assessment

December 20, 2023

Professor Jacobson

                                                                        Self-Assessment

“What is writing?” Writing is when you can communicate with letters and help spread your thoughts while writing ideas. We can write down information that is new to us which helps bring knowledge. It helps creates creativity to the writers. The writers can write down what they think and make a journey from it. Throughout the first semester I learned that writing an essay on certain topics is not the same as writing in high school. This was a journey that was surprising but was expected. Looking for reliable sources and having to go deeper into your topic with explaining. This is helping writers to see how writing is different in college. It also helps open your mind more and try to look more into your essay instead of taking quotes and explaining it little then moving on to the next. This also helps with learning how to catch an audience attention in your writing. As a writer you would have to think about the grammar/spelling and how you explain the topic in a way where the audience will be more interested into reading and have an understanding on what the writer is writing about. Organizing your ideas is also something to pay attention to more because once the writer has the topic, they want to talk about then it would become a little bit harder to write. As a person who wrote two essays and trying to stay on topic was difficult to me because you would have to write a good thesis and find evidence that will relate to the topic. Once you have a good thesis it was more helpful in your writing because you can find evidence that can back it up. As for me, it would be a little difficult because the evidence would relate to what I’m talking about, but it some wouldn’t. Next, is the explaining the evidence and how it backs it up with your thesis and evidence. Revising the and correcting the work is one thing that was difficult as well. It would require you to think over and over, look over the work that was written. Needing to analyze the sources that was picked out and have a deeper understanding of what’s being written. I achieved mostly in the course by using feedback. Feedback with peers is a method that can also strengthen your writing. Learning from each other and getting different ideas of what can be fixed in your writing and what can help. Getting ideas from peers help the writer to see how you can also do it in a different way and what can be fixed that the writer didn’t see.

            I achieved the course learning objectives by goals that I have set for myself as a writer. As a writer, I can review my work by checking the syllabus making sure that I stay on the topic. Also, can reflect on myself or with peers. So, I can gain some knowledge from myself and teachers/students to see where the writing needs more improvement from. Also looking into my essays to see what I needed help with then and how it I can fix it now. Like for example, checking my grammar. Checking grammar is one issue as a writer that needs to be fixed because it can be hard on the reader to understand what is being talked about in the essay. Timing as well never to wait last minute because then it would it become harder to get good feedback. Seeing where the growths and what can be fixed in the essay. Making sure there is understanding for both the writer and reader also facts that can back up you’re writing. Lastly, asking questions or checking with a peer to see if there is anything that can be fixed. Without this course, I would still be in a high school mindset and thinking that my writing has improved, but its just getting started to most difficult.

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