Writing 101 Reflective Report

When starting Writing 101 around 8 weeks ago, I came in with very little knowledge. The knowledge I did come in with was mainly from high school and Military administrative school. In high school you learn the basics of writing whereas in the Military administrative school you learn a different type of format altogether. I graduated high school in 2011 so I never really had to use APA or even basic writing format after my senior paper. In the Military, administrative school taught me the basics in Military writing, Navel Format, Standard Business Letter, and writing Orders. It is those military writing skills and knowledge that I use on a daily basis. Coming into Writing 101 I expected to relearn much of what I learned in high school …show more content…
Writing for Success had numerous exercises at the end of each chapter, helping students refresh their memories or to relearn writing tid bits in of itself. ComFit was another online learning tool that was great for practicing various writing skills. In Comfit you were able to take small quizzes of different learning variations in writing. Class discussions were extremely helpful to me in particular for reasons such as getting feedback on different thesis, seeing different ways a run on sentence could be structured, and learning of new ways to find research. Using the class discussions I was able to learn how to use the University of Maryland University College library. The online library opened up countless articles and research papers that were outstanding resources to use on papers. The articles I was able to find in the UMUC library were very helpful in writing my papers in Writing 101. I was even able to find an article about how to sight the articles in APA format. What I learned regarding the use of resources in Writing 101, I will definitely be able to use in the