Lessons Learned: My Reflective Aim

Out of the many lessons I learned in this course I enjoyed learning the aims of writing, expressive aim, referential aim, persuasive aim, and literary aim. Although my writing experience in the military was writing papers in referential aim and persuasive aim, the reason I choose the three essays below is because they were written in expressive aim. While I was making corrections and editing these three essays, I noticed that there was one common mistake not only in these three essays, but in all of the essays written during this course. The mistake of the improper use of punctuation more specifically comma usage. Even though comma usage is a basic lesson that I should have learned in middle school and mastered in high school, I continue to struggle with the proper use of …show more content…
I used both knowledge by participation and observation to tell the story and get my story across. In the South Sister, I attempted to gain credibility by using sensory words to describing my experience in a way that the reader not only can visualize my experience, but the use of other senses such as smell to share the experience.

I ask myself, “Did high school prepare me for college?” I can’t say that I only blame the high school curriculum for not learning the skills that would prepare me for college. Although the majority of the blame belongs to me for not embracing my studies, I will point out that there was a strong emphasis spent on preparing students for the workforce as the first priority, then a secondary focus on a small percentage of student, who were expected to pursue a higher education and prepare them for college. I can honestly say that my kids have had to write more papers by the time they were in middle school than I had ever had to write my entire twelve years of school. The only significant paper that I can remember writing, is one research paper that was needed for me to graduate high