How To Write A Personal Reflection

The rhetorical decision, using all our senses, and two descriptions paper lessons were my favorite. Learning how to write not just my opinion and views, but rather factor in who I was trying to capture with my writing was a new learning experience for me. Military writing has been my main form of writing for a long period of time and in that form of writing your main goal was to get the objective across without much concern for those that would be reading the document. Most letters I wrote were meant to be directives and not up for discussion. Also, I enjoyed the exercises where we used all our senses. It has been a long time since I have done an exercise of that type. I pride myself on using more than just my sight to interact with my environment, …show more content…
However, I learned that the most important item of college level writing was starting with a good question. Starting with a good question rather than an idea allows you to research all angles rather than going in with the blinder of an idea that only provides for a skewed view of a subject. Also, I learned that research is the meat and potatoes of any writing assignment. When doing your research it is necessary to ensure that it is creditable information that you are gathering. If you use any information found without checking if it is creditable can send you in the wrong direction for your writing assignments. That was by far the best lesson that I could have learned during this course. I was like many that believed most of what I read online when doing research, but know I look into the credibility of what I am reading more often. Not to say that I was ignorant to believe everything I read online. Lastly, I learned to wallow in complexity; to understand that not all things I research will have a definitive answer, but can have a collection of ideas that does not completely answer my question. Instead, it leads me to a good conclusion to be further researched and developed in time, possibly by a future student