Assignment 2 Iscomm Reflection

After seven weeks of study in English 150, I learned a lot about academic writing, oral presentation, visual concepts and electronic technologies. According to ISUComm student guide: “Writing is a complex attempt to communicate with another human being remotely, sometimes across centuries. We even use writing to communicate with ourselves---to sort out our thoughts or figure out who we are”(ISUComm). Since we are communicating with others or even ourselves, we should pay attention to the rhetorical situation, which means we need to know who our audiences are, what our issues and purposes are and the context. For writing, I choose assignment 2 for my reflection, because assignment 2 was the first graded assignment in this class and I was totally new about academic writing then, in these cases, there should be a lot I can improve on, such as rethink about my audiences and revise or add an thesis for each body paragraph. In addition, as the ISUCOMM puts it that there are five criteria of oral presentation, which are context, substance, organization, style and delivery (ISUCOMM). So every …show more content…
For example, in my assignment 2, I have a topic sentence “I take most of my engineering classes at Hoover Hall, and between the gaps of each class, Hoover Hall is my priority building that I will spend time in. To some extent, Hoover Hall has become the center of Iowa State in my heart and it gives me an intense sense of belonging.” and a closing sentence “I believe Iowa State has accomplished the promise that they will promote the campus environment and successfully made me feel like a part of the university.” This shows that I have intention to include an effective thesis and closing sentence, and these two sentences are connected to each other. I state that Hoover Hall gives me an intense sense of belonging at the beginning and restate that Hoover Hall made me feel like a part of the