SLO Reflection(numero tres): my writing

As I was writing my first post about who I am as a writer, I only knew the basics of writing and didn't know much else. After these 10 weeks, I have improved on my writing many ways. I have learned where my flaws are in my writing and have been focusing on those to fix it. One thing that I noticed was my writing was very unorganized. I fixed this by adding a daily routine. That was the writing outline that we did during this course. It was a great tool and I plan to use it every time I write instead of just diving head first into a paper with  no preparation. I learned many things from reading They say, I say and plan to take those lessons learned with me as my future of writing continues. After all this, I have seen major improvement and will take what I learned and move further in life.

SLO Reflection(numero dos): critical thinking and writing

Well this blog is yet again late...

Doing the précis and précis workshops allowed us to think a bit more critically. It allowed us to gather the information we obtain from the texts and fully summarize those without making them too wordy. As a result we are now capable of thinking more critically than when we first started the class. I think of this especially for me because I feel as if I have improved a lot on my critical thinking skills. Those are skills which was something I lacked during my High school years but picked up a bit in the last year.

My writing by far has improved a great deal. When I started this class I only had the mere idea of just knowing how to write. I didn't realize there was this much in-depth to it such as argumentation, analysis, and disciplinary awareness. I also learned how to properly write a thesis. Before, my thesis were just too broad and general. Now they are more specific and tend to lean towards my objective and topic. I still have much to improve on but this is a great start. After taking this class I feel I have accomplished much with my writing skills.

SLO Reflection(numero uno): close reading and research

As for the reading portion of this class, it wasn't so difficult because I took Summer Bridge prior to Autumn quarter where we read around 6 books and so reading through these 2 books was a piece of cake. As for reading scholarly texts such as West's article, I was able to easily pinpoint all the key points and sub-key points through taking this class.

Research in this class was review. One, because I had taken Running Start during High School where we were required to find scholarly sources. Second, we also did some practice on this in Summer Bridge. It was a breeze getting to the search database but I still sometimes have some trouble getting a great article. I think this is mainly because I choose some poor choice of words to use in the search. Sometimes I hit the jackpot but other times the article I find works just fine.

Revision thoughts

Revision means change for me. Something had been done wrong or does not seem right so it needs to be changed or revised. I also think of revision towards writing and normally nothing else. Someone writes a draft then revises it. That is all I hear. I don't know maybe revision can be referred to other things but I strictly refer to it when writing. This process of writing helps me write my paper better because after I get the feedback I can gather all the thoughts together and figure out really what my paper is trying to say.