Josh Hoff

Ms. Kirchner

ENC 2135

22 April 2023

Reflective Statement

During this semester, a great deal of writing skills have been taught. Something I learned

as the semester progressed was how to draw up my own questions about information to try and

learn more about the topic. This was mainly learned from doing the QQCs. This was because the

students were tasked with reading about a topic and coming up with their own question about

something that was in the article. This helps to not take everything at face value and to question

the information you take in instead of just reading it. Another thing I learned was how to build on

an idea. This semester was essentially about taking a topic and writing numerous different

projects about that topic or something pertaining to it. It was difficult at first to find new

information about the topic for each project but this challenge proved to actually be helpful in the

long run. Learning to be able to keep building on top of a topic when one thinks there is nothing

more to it is an important task. Being challenged to do something is also better for the brain than

doing it on your own time, I have also learned. Many times during the semester I was mentally

challenged but from these challenges I believe I had some of my best work.

The global revision included in my website focused mainly on making the overall essay

easier to read for the reader. Going over the essay again, I realized it was difficult to understand

at times and could get repetitive also. To make it easier to understand, I made numerous revisions

throughout the essay to make the overall project easier to comprehend. The two artifacts I
included were from the last project. These artifacts encompass what I have learned in this past

semester from this class. One of them is a short story and the other is a formal letter. It made me

proud to find myself capable of writing in two genres that are not conventional in most other

English classes I have taken. Not only did I successfully write in these two genres, but I also

used them to support an ideal that I feel strongly about. Being able to accomplish all of this made

me proud and upon completing that work I truly realized how far I had come since the beginning

of the semester. I was not nearly as capable of supporting an idea or researching a thesis at the

beginning of the semester. The projects that were assigned in this class really did open up many

opportunities to learn new skills and to refine ones that I had learned previously. Moving

forward, I now appreciate how important it is to be open to new ways of writing and to

constantly look for new ways to refine the skills I already have.