Last updated January 29th, 2020

In the first reflection, I discuss my abilities and limitations as a writer. I claimed to be able to shift my tone well, and I cite my extensive vocabulary and concise arguments. However, I also discuss my shortcomings as being unable to organize my thoughts clearly within a short period of time. I discuss outlining pieces of texts in order to better understand them, and a keen dislike for making numerous edits on a single document. I have not had much experience in writing for scientific functions, as my work remains limited to high school assignments and science fairs.

Last updated February 10th, 2020

This reflection discussed my experience in writing the New York Times Summary and Evaluation. I claim to have found the assignment “easy” due to its straightforward nature of summarization and the intriguing topic that I had chosen. I also claimed to find difficulty in avoiding mirroring the author’s choice of diction and syntax. I tried to remedy this issue by summarizing the article without looking at it, but ran into issues of subsequently losing some of the author’s meaning in my summary. Course Objectives 3, to “negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation”, and 8, to “strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources)”, were mostly addressed in this reflection due to my mention of the author’s stylistic choices as well as my first exposure to the CSE format.

Last updated February 26th, 2020

This reflection focused on the Scholarly Article Analysis Assignment. In it, I express how I found this assignment to be more straightforward than the previous NY Times article assignment due to the fact that the scholarly article was more organized and used scholarly, objective diction. I had trouble with abridging the length of the article into a single compact summary, as it was very long. I also had trouble with citing in CSE format, as I was still relatively knew to the citation style. I addressed “strengthening source practices” and “engaging in collaborative and social aspects of writing”, which falls under Learning Objectives 8 and 4. This was the first assignment where the peer-editing process drastically shifted my perspective on how I edit my papers.