My Reflection: My Development As A Writer

Looking at previous and current assignments, I am looking at how I have progressed as a writer. This involves analyzing obstacles I had encountered throughout the semester, and understanding how I have learned from those difficulties I had in the past. I intend to refer to the student learning outcome (SLO) to focus on specific areas that applied to my writing. Some specific SLOs of interest are looking into a rhetorical situation and reflecting as a writer.

Firstly, SLO A of rhetorical situation involves understanding the context or appropriateness in writing. Within my third major writing assignment I had to understand the specific audience I had wanted to target. At first, I had written my proposal in a way that did not lean towards any audience. I was blatantly putting out information about nuclear energy which made my proposal seem more like a research paper. I had then decided to shift dramatically creating the problem of focus followed by a possible solution. “To advocate for a healthier and …show more content…
What I want to look at is writing my reflection, which is incredible because as I am writing this reflection I’m thinking about how I have progressed as a writer. More deeply, I’m thinking about my thinking which is referred to as metacognition. Writing this reflection and past reflections have pushed me to think of my writing in a way that I had never done before. Using a recent example, looking at SLO A helped realize the rhetorical situation and audience. This allowed me to keep in mind, things I should or shouldn't include within my writing. Overall SLO F has helped realize the potential of taking a step back, and understanding the material I write. I intend to use the student learning outcomes in my future writing, more specifically SLO A and SLO F to not only look at the different audiences I must write towards, but to evaluate my overall writing as I progress through my college's years and