I am writing to inform you that I have strengthened my understanding of the use and incorporation of knowledge and ideas. My skills in writing have become significantly stronger ever since we started this semester back in January. Before I took Writing in the Sciences with you as my instructor, incorporating knowledge and ideas has became a lot easier for me to accomplish when writing. I never realized how inadequate I was at incorporating my ideas into my writing. One activity that helped me improve the most was the group research project. At first, trying to write the research proposal was overwhelming and complicated. Trying to incorporate my ideas on the topic into the proposal was a challenge because we were using scholarly articles from
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The best example would be this letter I am writing to you. To be completely honest, I did not remember how to write a letter in proper format even after taking English 120. I now understand the simplicity of writing a letter (which is a genre). Another genre that I learned about this semester is a memo. I did not previously know that a memo had a specific format that needs to be followed. I am very glad that I know that now, it would have been humiliating if I were to send a memo to my boss in an unprofessional manner. Before I took this upper level writing class, I did not truly understand the meaning of the word genre. I thought it was just a simple description such as style of music like rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz etc. Instead a genre can be defined as type of writing with distinguishable characteristics. I have also learned which type of genre to use in certain situations. An example is when communicating with a fellow classmate. I would most likely send them an email instead of sending them a letter because it seems more appropriate for that situation. A very simple yet important genre was the “New Employee” informative writing. This assignment demonstrated my ability to communicate to you effectively about someone else. I interviewed a classmate (Christina) and wrote a few things down that she told me. I then wrote a ¾ page paper introducing Christina to a
The best example would be this letter I am writing to you. To be completely honest, I did not remember how to write a letter in proper format even after taking English 120. I now understand the simplicity of writing a letter (which is a genre). Another genre that I learned about this semester is a memo. I did not previously know that a memo had a specific format that needs to be followed. I am very glad that I know that now, it would have been humiliating if I were to send a memo to my boss in an unprofessional manner. Before I took this upper level writing class, I did not truly understand the meaning of the word genre. I thought it was just a simple description such as style of music like rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz etc. Instead a genre can be defined as type of writing with distinguishable characteristics. I have also learned which type of genre to use in certain situations. An example is when communicating with a fellow classmate. I would most likely send them an email instead of sending them a letter because it seems more appropriate for that situation. A very simple yet important genre was the “New Employee” informative writing. This assignment demonstrated my ability to communicate to you effectively about someone else. I interviewed a classmate (Christina) and wrote a few things down that she told me. I then wrote a ¾ page paper introducing Christina to a