Reflective Essay Throughout this course, I learned about different aspects of writing by the 5 submitted artifacts. These aspects including the writing process or Artifact 1 , discourse communities or Artifact 2, rhetorical situations or Artifact 3, how to identify genres or Artifact 4, and critical thinking, reading, and research, or Artifact 5. Learning more about these aspects of writing has allowed me to become a very strong, confident writer.
This English course started out by teaching me about the writing process. I learned how to adapt my writing and change it to the type of assignment that was given to me. I had to writing style from how it was in High School . I learned how to better incorporate my creative sense of writing into describing …show more content…
I got the chance to learn how to tell about a discourse community and what discourse community a writer belongs to through the objective “Campus Social Group”. I also had to identify a discourse community in my paper. I wrote my paper about the Western Illinois Swim Team. I broke my paper down into many groups with subdivisions in order to fully explain in detail the team and their similarities and differences. By writing this paper for an audience who had absolutely no idea about the topic, it allowed me to get deep into my explanation and include more details. I learned that the discourse community is extremely important in a person's paper, and that it helps to shape how the writer will present the information to their audiences. Before taking English 180 I had heard of ethos, pathos, and logos, but I did not know much about them. This semester I learned about rhetorical situations and appeals (Artifact 3). Through the objective “Goal Progress”, I analyzed steps taken and obstacles that were encountered and overcame. I focused on a the intellectual aspect of my life. Now that I have gained knowledge on the subject, I am able to use and notice when a writer is using emotion, logic, or ethics to grab the attention of their
This English course started out by teaching me about the writing process. I learned how to adapt my writing and change it to the type of assignment that was given to me. I had to writing style from how it was in High School . I learned how to better incorporate my creative sense of writing into describing …show more content…
I got the chance to learn how to tell about a discourse community and what discourse community a writer belongs to through the objective “Campus Social Group”. I also had to identify a discourse community in my paper. I wrote my paper about the Western Illinois Swim Team. I broke my paper down into many groups with subdivisions in order to fully explain in detail the team and their similarities and differences. By writing this paper for an audience who had absolutely no idea about the topic, it allowed me to get deep into my explanation and include more details. I learned that the discourse community is extremely important in a person's paper, and that it helps to shape how the writer will present the information to their audiences. Before taking English 180 I had heard of ethos, pathos, and logos, but I did not know much about them. This semester I learned about rhetorical situations and appeals (Artifact 3). Through the objective “Goal Progress”, I analyzed steps taken and obstacles that were encountered and overcame. I focused on a the intellectual aspect of my life. Now that I have gained knowledge on the subject, I am able to use and notice when a writer is using emotion, logic, or ethics to grab the attention of their