Last Blog/Final Reflection (#15)

Of the four goals (revise my papers better, use more educational/college vocabulary, not to make common mistakes and to not repeat myself) I had in the beginning of the semester, I believed that I somewhat achieved them. With revising my papers better, I say I have somewhat achieved it because I still don't find mistakes in my papers when I revise that my professor and tutor finds, but I have began looking at things in my papers that needs to be reworded or that doesn't belong in my paper. With the usage of more educational/college vocabulary, I haven't achieved that goal. I still use common vocabulary in my papers to express my ideas. I do look up synonyms for some of my words if I use a particular word many times in my papers, but that's all. I don't use college vocabulary on my own. With not to make common mistakes, I somewhat again achieved it because I do see my mistakes when I revise my papers most of the time, but still, I do sometimes have fragments and/or run-on sentences in my papers. With my last goal, I haven't achieved it because I still do find myself repeating myself a lot in my papers. My professor has commented that some of the items in my papers are repetitive and I do need to change that.

I wouldn't change in anyway my goals because my goals all relate to college level writing. Each of my goals are items that many people who can do college level writing have a good grasp on, while I don't. When I get into higher level classes, I need to make sure that I have a good grasp on these because my professors think that all students know these and if I don't know them, I will not do as well as I should be in those classes. So no, I wouldn't change my goals because my goals relate to me getting better at college level writing and in some form or another, also relate to college level writing as well.

I really don't have an outline on how I am going to continue growing as a writer, but I do know the first step in that outline, which is to take writing II in the fall. I am going to start my journey with Writing II because it is a class that helps you with writing a research paper, which I know in the future I will be ask to write for some of my classes. Also with what I want to do with my life, I know I will need to be able to write a research paper. The strengths I want to continue working on are my organization skill, improving my rhetorical knowledge, and improving my strength in writing argument papers. I want to continue working on my strengths because I know that everyone can use more help even on the things that they are  good in. I want to make sure that my strengths don't become worse and that I will never have to worry about these affecting my papers. The weaknesses I want to work on are sentence structure and grammar. I need to work on these two items because they are my weakest aspects with writing. These two aspects also make me to get lower grades on my papers than I should because my papers are always filled with great ideas, is organize very well and they flow as well, but with my sentence structure and grammar, my paragraphs become confusing to my audience and I also repeat myself, which undermines my organizational skill and ideas.