Reflective Essay: What I Learned In My Writing Class

During my time in the class I have written a variety of papers that I had little to no experience in. By the end of the semester I have gained crucial experience in not only writing papers, but employing different writing and work strategies during class. The first essay that we were required to write for class was a domain essay. The domain essay was about our major, what experience we have with it, and what we hope to gain from it. This was the first paper of the class and also the first paper I had to write in a while. It displays all the writing skills that I have been taught previously. As we continued to practice and learn how to write papers, my writing has made a noticeable change. I see this change whenever I look back at the domain essay. …show more content…
It was the expository research report. While I have written a couple of research papers in high school, the quality of those when compared to the one I wrote recently is drastic. The structure of my paper improved and my citations were well done. Not only did my writing skills change, they also improved. Part of this improvement was because of the documentation style sheet. It was when I learned how to do citations for three writing formats. They were MLA, APA, and CMS. The writing style I used for the research paper was CMS, or Chicago Manual Style 16th ed. I had never written using this format before, but after writing the expository research report I felt comfortable with it. This was a good experience because in my field, electrical engineering, I would be using that writing style for any papers I