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     Off all the assignments we completed throughout the semester, my favorite assignment was the literacy vignettes. I liked that it gave us a chance to tell you a few things about us that you wouldn’t have known had we not done that assignment. It also gave us the opportunity to write about something we were actually interested in. I learned that, depending on what the topic is, writing style is going to change in multiple ways. The tone, purpose, and audience all change as well. If I could change one thing about the assignment it would be having to write about reading and writing. I just thought it was awkward writing about those two topics; however, that could just be because I don’t do it very frequently.

     My least favorite assignment was the writing to learn assignment that involved writing to both you and a friend. I didn’t like trying to summarize to a friend something I just read online, but I did learn that summaries are actually easier for me to write formally than informally. It’s easier for me to take it seriously and point of the main ideas when I’m writing to a teacher or someone other than a friend. I think it would be more beneficial to have one summary to the teacher, but the other summary should a personal summary or something less formal but not to a friend.

     I personally don’t like journal entries. All of my teachers in high school made us do them as well, and I just never found them very beneficial. I think short assignments such as reading an article and reflecting on it in a formal style is more beneficial to me because I naturally treat it more seriously; therefore, I develop more as a writer. Sometimes journal entries just seem like “busy work”, and I just think there are better ways to get thoughts and ideas out.

     My perceptions of writing as far as how I write didn’t change very much throughout the course. I have always had relatively the same writing style, and I am just comfortable with it at this point. However, this course is the first time that changing genres and purpose/meaning/audience/etc. has been really brought to my attention. I’ve always known when you change a genre, some things are obviously going to be different, but the amount of exercises we did with genre changes showed me how drastic the changes can be.

      I can’t think of anything I wish we would have done that we didn’t do over the course, but something I wish we didn’t do (as much) is get into groups. I think groups are very beneficial in order to get feedback from other people, but sometimes they just become less productive. I feel like during some of our group sessions, I could have used that time more productively by doing other work on my own.

​     A Reader’s Guide to College Writing had a few helpful tips, but overall, I think I had a pretty good grip on what it was saying. I definitely do think I will keep the book for suture references because I never know when I might need it. I know I a m going to come across some things that are new to me and my writing, so it will probably benefit me in the future. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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