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Daisy Sepulveda

Rakita

ENG 101 9:00AM

30 November 2022

Module 15: Process Work

When I first started ENG 101, I was scared I would not be able to fulfill the standards set

in order to do well in this class. I felt a sense of relief when I heard there would be a grading

contract that would not dock off points for the quality, but rather we would have to meet the

standards or requirements set for us. This enabled me to try to do my best when it came to

writing modules, reflections, and writing projects. I had only ever done two of these projects out

of the four; I had previously written rhetorical analysis, although it did not include kairos and

telos, and I had made a portfolio as my final assignment my senior year of high school.

Throughout this semester, I constantly found flaws in my writing and was successful in being

able to adjust and fulfill my goals; some of these goals consisted of expressing myself through

my writing while staying in word count, giving myself ample time to finish assignments, and

writing longer conclusions.

Succeeding each writing project we were assigned, we would have to write a reflection

that was based on ourselves as writers throughout the process of the writing project and then

comparing it to our performance on the previous paper we had written. Initially, I felt as though I

would always overwrite in my papers by going over the word count each time, but throughout

the writing projects I improved while still fully expressing myself without being too redundant.

When I first spoke about it in my reflection, I talked about the excess word count, which can be

seen in the image below.

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Later, in my second reflection I talked about my improvement and writing exactly within the

word count. This can be seen with the image below.

Another goal I had tried to work on was giving myself time to work on these writing projects. I

realized procrastinating affected the way I wrote and I wanted to be able to give myself the

opportunity to improve the quality of my work and do it in a way that would not stress me out.

With writing project two, I enjoyed the idea of being able to use my humor to write and it

actually allowed me to give myself time to consistently look over my writing and make edits.

Additionally, the set up of our third writing project allowed for me to write many of the portions

of the project at different times. I had so much time I used two different events and interviewed

four people. I did not feel stressed while writing and I actually worked on it as an act of my own

volition. Doing this made me think of my work to be progressing in its quality because it was not

rushed and I included everything I wanted to say, while still meeting the requirements that is. My

last goal was to have stronger conclusions. I decided to revise my first writing project where I

had only included about two sentences as my conclusion. This was an issue I had because I never
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know what to include, and by this time I had already met the maximum word count requirement,

which can be seen in the image below.

After using both the feedback of my professor and a tutor from the writing center, I was able to

decrease the word count I had and used it to improve my conclusion paragraph. I have attached

the image of what my conclusion looks like after I had revised my first writing project.

Overall, my progress as a writer has improved drastically, and I attribute most of it to the

fact that I was able to take my worries off of trying to write the perfect paper, but rather to write

at my own pace and work on certain aspects each time. I was able to improve my writing habits,

by giving myself time along with learning how to talk about what I want to without having to go

over word count or be repetitive with what I am saying. The constant feedback I was able to get

from different peers, my professor, and the writing center truly allowed me to grow as well

because they would bring up ideas that I would not have thought of when it came to my writing
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project. Part of the peer review process that I like the most is the insight comes from someone

who has not seen the paper before so they bring a new perspective I would not have had from

looking at what I was writing and mixing thoughts with what was written.