English 101 has been an eye opening writing experience compared to my prior English courses. I learned how to edit various steps in my process of composing an essay to be able to revise the essay effectively before the deadline.The class was also required to create a schedule which outlined the various steps in the writing process. This schedule helped me to complete the essay with sufficient time to revise and peer edit and decreased the stress of being able to finish the essay on the deadline. Throughout English 101, I have learned various things that have increased my overall writing ability throughout the winter quarter. In the first microtheme, I outlined my writing goal for the winter quarter. This goal stated I would like to compose
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Researching for general topics for the literature review over a few days and discussing the sources discovered helped me narrow down my topic to a specific subject; negative effects encountered by Native American communities living in the proximity to radioactive storage, mining, and testing sites. Learning how to use search engines such as ProQuest and ScienceDirect has helped me find scholarly peer reviewed articles that coincide with this topic even though learning now to use these search engines efficiently took a few days. The required synthesis matrix for the literature review helped to lay out of information I had pulled from the source material and choose what information would be present in the final essay. I also formed a matrix for the third argument essay because it helped to narrow down specific facts to explain in the essay, even though it was not …show more content…
For example, creating a specific schedule for composing an essay and following most of the steps has increased the amount of time to revise and edit my essay. Including steps like the synthesis matrix, or a longer research period has helped me compile source materials and present the sources accurately in the final essay. Thus, I was able to complete my goal of composing essays with a concrete plan enabling me to write efficiently and effectively throughout English
Researching for general topics for the literature review over a few days and discussing the sources discovered helped me narrow down my topic to a specific subject; negative effects encountered by Native American communities living in the proximity to radioactive storage, mining, and testing sites. Learning how to use search engines such as ProQuest and ScienceDirect has helped me find scholarly peer reviewed articles that coincide with this topic even though learning now to use these search engines efficiently took a few days. The required synthesis matrix for the literature review helped to lay out of information I had pulled from the source material and choose what information would be present in the final essay. I also formed a matrix for the third argument essay because it helped to narrow down specific facts to explain in the essay, even though it was not …show more content…
For example, creating a specific schedule for composing an essay and following most of the steps has increased the amount of time to revise and edit my essay. Including steps like the synthesis matrix, or a longer research period has helped me compile source materials and present the sources accurately in the final essay. Thus, I was able to complete my goal of composing essays with a concrete plan enabling me to write efficiently and effectively throughout English