WRTG101 Reflective Report

It is hard to believe that this class will soon be coming to an end. This class while a core requirement for University of Maryland University College (UMUC) was chosen to help prepare me and introduce me into a better understanding of grammar and the mechanics of writing. In the beginning of this class (WRTG101) I had very marginal writing skills and experience, now with acquisition of skills that I have gained through this course any writing task set before me can be completed with the upmost of confidence. With this in mind the following reflective essay is an opportunity for me to discuss what skills I learned, how I received them, and lastly why there are needed. Up to the present time a skill that I have been critiqued on multiple times by the professor was word count. In the website Writers’ Treasure author Idrees Patel explains the importance of word count and how it select your readers. For example, if you write a novel and it is long, about 100,000 words long, then naturally there will be some readers to whom it is not suitable (just because of the word count). Readers’ examples include children who are interested in the novel itself but can’t read due to the high word count. If your novel appears too …show more content…
That helped more than I thought it would. I used some of the strategies though out the whole semester. When it came to reading and going over the material, I would write some of it down to go back and reread if I needed to. I would also read it out loud it seemed to help. I also found I used some of the prewriting strategies a lot too. One of my favorite ones was freewriting, it helped a lot to be able to write everything out by hand and go from there. I would just write but it didn’t always work out, sometimes it would make much since so I would have to start over, but it was still one of my favorite ways to go. I also tried using brainstorming, but it didn’t work as well as free