Overall Reflection 3

Goal 1: I believe that in my time in 1102 I have learned a lot about writing and research. From reading the many texts in class I have learned a lot about writing in the world of writing studies. I have learned about rhetorical analysis of writing, different components of texts, and how writing is used in communication. I have also Learned what it takes to write a research paper. I learned the process of gathering information, inquiring about certain ideas, and how to formulate accurate research questions and gather sufficient research.

Goal 2: Throughout this semester I have learned a great deal about the research process. I have learned how to gather general information before making an inquiry. Which in turn has taught me how to make inquiries and develop effective research questions that aid in the effectiveness of my research. I have also learned how to gather information that relates to my initial research questions. Finally I have learned how use the information I gathered in order to establish claims about my community.

Goal 3: The many readings we have done in class have taught me how to dissect information from complex sources in many different ways. By reading complex texts with peers in class, I was able to learn how they analyzed the text which in turn allowed for me to gain the maximum information from each source. Once I analyzed a complex source I then learned how to implement that source in my own research. To do this I highlighted and made note of specific information in a source that related to my research and used it in order to validate the claims I was making about my community.

Goal 4: During the semester I was constantly made aware of how to appease to writing studies scholars, which was my audience. I learned how to include specific writing studies lexis and valuable writing studies sources in order to establish credibility with my audience. The incorporation of these techniques allowed for me to produce effective arguments that were suitable to the academic context of the class because of how they paralleled other sources by writing studies scholars.

Goal 5: Each task during the semester included some sort of revising or editing process. By doing this constantly for each task I was to pick up on certain cues that helped better my editing skills. I learned how to do things such as line by line analysis of my own writing, which allowed for me to determine what was wrong with each specific line in my paper. I also learned valuable editing skills from peer reviewing other classmates's work in class. Of the many editing and proofreading strategies I learned the only I found most effective and flexible was the peer review method, because it offers a simple effective proof reading method that can be done with the help of just one other person. The reason I found this most effective is because I learned that sometimes "fresh eyes" on a paper can reveal to you key flaws or errors in your research.