a. www.pinterest.com This picture

describes how my writing process was throughout the semester. When I first

started in this course my writing wasn’t all that bad in fact I had some good

qualities to my writing. For example like in the picture my good side was that I

am very good at spelling. I always knew how to spell words correctly even when I

was in elementary school it just came naturally for me. Also, my grammar is

pretty decent. I wouldn’t say it is the best because it does need some work here

and there but grammar was never really an issue for me. Now for my bad

side….my diction was the worst, my sentence structures were very poor and I

procrastinate a lot. This part of my writing I would say would be my bad side.

Now I do have to admit that my procrastination skills have gotten better through

the course because all the papers we have written about especially the inquiry

paper was of my interest. I found out that if the topic I am writing about is of

some kind of interest to me, then my papers will be a lot more successful. Overall,

everyone has a good side and a bad side with their writing but it is figuring out

what your not so good in and applying it that will make you a better writer!

b. If I were to teach this class….I would definitely emphasize the fact that you will

never get better in writing unless you apply what you are bad at and make it

better. Also, I would make sure that we would be writing a lot of papers….not

necessarily long papers but many so that your writing gets better with practice.

We would also be reading short stories and poems and then go over them in class

and pick out what was good in the writing and what was bad. It is good to look at

other examples to get an idea of what maybe you aren’t so good at with your own

writing. I also believe that grammar practice is a must always and going over

spelling. Sometimes, students lose the knowledge that they had of spelling words

correctly because of text messaging and social media and all these shortened

down words.

c. “Max Moran No Way Out”- I enjoyed this article out of all the readings that were

assigned this semester because I liked how the writer described how he rides the

trains at night because he likes to get away from reality and go to his happy place,

which is a “better world.” I like how Max is not ashamed of where he comes

from. He doesn’t want to be living in this “fake world” of crime, discrimination,

and murder that he lives in now. He sticks up for himself and knows better than to

commit a crime ever. I think he is a very intelligent kid that will do the right

things and push those away who try to influence him the other way. He doesn’t

like the way the world is now and how people are ruining it and wants to make a

change. This article proves a point about our world and how there is so much

crime and murder and poverty but that doesn’t make everyone who lives in this

type of situation bad. There are good people out there that want to do good but

were born in bad and can’t find a way out. I liked this article the most because it

had a lot of good points and described in detail how everyone has a chance at life

whether they were born into poverty or not.

d. The writing successes that I’ve had this semester are that my procrastinating skills

have gotten better and I don’t procrastinate as much as I have. My diction has also

grown and my sentence structures. I used to just write and write and write and

would never get to my point fast enough. There are definitely a lot of things that I

would like to change about my writing and that would be my clarity in my writing

and my thesis statements. I believe that with practice and time my thesis

statements will improve. But I will say that I am proud of writing those 6 pages

for the inquiry paper and being able to write the pages freely and without

stopping. I didn’t get writer’s block throughout. The rhetorical appeal that I used

for my inquiry paper was logos….I used a bunch of facts that I’ve found and then

went from there with proving my own opinion based on that specific fact. This

appeal seems to work well for me because it is easier to see and look at other

perspectives before writing about my own.

e. I enjoyed my journey overall in UWRT 1102, because I found this course to be

the most helpful for my writing than all the other English courses that I have

taken even in high school. It helped me really focus on the aspects of my

writing….what I was good at and what I needed more work on. The conflict paper

I wasn’t a real big fan of but it was helpful with argumentation and figuring out

how to write a good argument. I also really enjoyed the inquiry paper because I

got to write about something I was so interested in. Even though it was 6 pages

and long it really helped me to understand what I needed to work on with my

writing and what I was good at. The blog posts and daybook entries were fun to

do and helped also with my progression in writing. I also enjoyed groupwork and

peer workshopping! Getting other students ideas about your writing helps you to

improve. UWRT 1102 was a fun, exciting, and adventurous course!

f. I believe that my writing will help others look at my viewpoint from a different

perspective and then take into consideration what I am saying about a topic.

Maybe others will agree with my arguments in my writing or maybe they will

disagree. I think my arguments in my writing are very strong and can make a

change in the writing world. We all really benefit from other writing and others

viewpoints on different types of writing it just depends on what it is about. But I

enjoyed doing peer workshopping as well as group work because it helped me

look at my writing in a different way and improve on it.

g. I wouldn’t consider myself a writer just yet because there is always more room for

improvement. I would though say that my writing has definitely progressed for

the better throughout the semester. We all start at a bad point in our writing but

the only way to better ourselves is by planning, applying, and improving with

practice. It takes time and practice to be good at anything! I have seen a lot of

progress in my writing from last semester to this one but I do think that I could

better. My procrastination has also gotten a lot better, I just hope it doesn’t go

back to what it was before. Maybe within time and if I write more after this class

then I could possibly become a writer. But for now technically no, I am not a

writer quite yet. Writers develop good thinking skills, they don’t always

procrastinate meaning once they sit down to write they actually write. They plan

out their stories before writing them, and they take all the time they need to make

their story the best.