Dear Mentor,
We have finally reached the end of the first term. Being
part of this class has definitely been quite a wonderful learning experience
where I had the opportunity to grow as a writer.
By now,
I could definitely say that I have achieved most, if not all of my goals that I
had set for myself during the beginning of this class. I have definitely
improved my skills and this is very evident by the way I now seriously follow
the steps on writing. I have realized just how important being organized is
when it comes to academic writing and that I should always follow through my
outline so that it would be easier to write my essay. I also learned how to
cite my sources properly and to value the importance of citations when it comes
to writing. These evidences of my development shows that I have reached my
goals for this class because it projects how I matured as a writer and how I
have become more open minded and versatile.
Achieving
the goal of becoming more versatile proved to be harder than the rest of my
objectives. Before this class, I was not used to Academic Writing since I
trained myself to be more of an informal or personal writer back in high
school. But I was able to achieve this by also training myself, again, to read
more academic works so that I would also be able to appreciate this kind of
writing style. My development can be
seen mostly on my argumentative essay where , in my opinion, I have put in the
most effort compared to my other
compositions because I really wanted to follow the rules and be able to express
my stand effectively.
I
believe that having the peer editing every after each essay greatly helped in
developing my skills. Not only did this activity make me more aware of my
mistakes but it helped me become more open minded when it comes to others’
opinion and to remember that there is
always room for improvement. Blogging
was also very helpful because it made me more comfortable and less intimidated
with academic writing since I am doing it in an environment that is very familiar
to me.
As a
writer, I realized that I still have much to improve on. I also learned in this
class that there are many more writing styles that I have to learn so that I
can prove myself worthy of competing in the outside world—the bigger platform. Some of the most important things that I
learned in this course are: making outlines, organizing facts, proper citation,
the fallacies to avoid and different approaches in making essays. These lessons
really helped me develop my skills.
Perhaps,
one of the most important parts of the writing process is the editing. It is in
this phase where the writer is given the chance to make the right corrections
and revision to further develop his essay. It may be hard for some to accept criticism
and comments but what I do is, I look at each one as constructive comments. I
then analyze each comment and do the right adjustments to satisfy what my
readers expect and want without fully discarding my main points.
I hope
you take pleasure in reading my unraveled thoughts as much as I did writing
them.
Sincerely,
Shelly Cooper
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