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Reflection Essay

Writing Development: Can you see an improvement in your own writing throughout the course
of this semester? If so, describe that improvement and how it developed. If not, describe how
areas of improvement could be better addressed in this course.

Throughout the course of the semester, I did notice an improvement in my writing.


Because I did worse on the last assignment than the previous two assignments it my seem like
my writing got worse, however I felt that I rushed on the last assignment causing my grade to be
poor. At the beginning of the semester, it was hard for me to put my thoughts into writing but
after the first assignment I felt that I was able to easily write down my thoughts. Additionally, I
feel that the flow and of my writing and the style of my paper progressed from the first and
second assignment, which can be seen from my grade on the assignments going form a 90 to a
97. Lastly, I would have liked to get a higher grade from assignment to assignment, so how I
increased my grade 7 percent from the first to the second assignment. I would have liked to get a
higher than a 97 on the last assignment. However, because the time in this class is so short and it
being a summer semester, I had trouble finding the time to complete the last assignment.
Looking back, I would have started the assignment earlier so I would have not rushed because of
time. Overall, I did see an improvement in my ability to write my thoughts and make the flow
and the style of the document better.

Course Goals

At the beginning of the semester we discussed each individual’s goals for this course. What was
your goal for this course? Did you meet your goal for this course? If so, how did that happen? If
not, how do you think the course could be revised to better help other students meet that goal?

My goals for this class included learning more about technical writing, getting a good
grade so that I could keep my scholarship and to learn more about the book of my choice –
caves. Yes, I did meet my goals for that I made for myself. For my first goal, learning more
about technical writing came along as the class progressed because of the completion of each
discussion post and each of the three major assignments. I learned more about prose, audience,
reports, and instructions. For my second goal, earning a good grade was due to all the work I put
in and tried my best on almost every assignment. My last goal, learning about caves was
accomplished by completing the white paper assignment. Overall, I completed all of the goals I
set for myself at the beginning of the semester.

Assignments

Which assignment are you most proud of and why? If you could add any assignment to this
course, what would it be? If you could edit any assignment in this course, what would it be?

The assignment I am most proud of is the white paper assignment. I spent the most time
of this assignment and my grade showed it. I was not sure what a white paper was at first but
after watching the canvas video and looking over the power point I was able to understand and
complete my white paper about pollution in caves and the solution to the problem. If I could add
any assignment to the course, it would probably be peer editing the final version of one of the
assignments so we could have seen what we could have done better. If I could edit any
assignment in the course I would edit the workplace correspondence assignment because of my
grade. Overall, I was most proud of my white paper because I put the most time into that
assignment.

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