A fundamental thing I learned in this class is how to express my own opinion and organize my ideas in order for my papers to flow. The TS-CD-CD-CS structure challenged me since the very first assignment and I still think I need to work a little on it, but experience showed me that it is an efficient way to organize ideas during the process of writing self-discovery, and establish my voice appropriate to a rhetorical context. In this way, the diagnostic assignment was the first time I actually had to spend time thinking of the formalities of the writing process. This fact let me utilize various invention, drafting, and revising/editing strategies to meet the purposes of different writing situations, materials available to me, and length of time available for the task.
Due to the variety of situations about which we had to write, I developed a better understanding of how audience, discourse and the stance are related, which lead to myself becoming a more reflective writer. Moreover, the creative part wasn't as hard as I initially thought because I felt inspired and many ideas popped up in my mind. Inspiration and creativity are definitely strong aspects of my writing: it takes me a while to find the point where I want to start, but once I get it there is a continuous flow of words, and I have to put order in my brain to express what I want in the way I want. This moment of fluid writing without interruptions due to lack of ideas is when I really enjoy writing.
Essay #1 inspired me to write about something I know in a first person: the wrong assumptions people do about English Language Learners. For this reason, it wasn't difficult for me to connect with the ideas the author was expressing in the article, in a way that I felt I had to advocate for the rights of people in need of improving their communicative abilities in English. With the Ad Analysis Essay I learn how to engage a topic in which I explored writing as a means of self-discovery and produced a text designed to persuade the reader of my commitment. The reason I used this add is because it takes advantage of the cultural nuances of submission between the traditional Asian culture and the Western society to invoke emotional appeals by making a sexist use of the female figure.
The Synthesis and Compare/Contrast Essays have been the most difficult ones for me to develop. After reading all the articles I had to decide what my point of view was. I learned how to select, evaluate, and interact effectively with sources, subordinating them to my purpose and creating confidence that the sources have been fairly represented and acknowledged with academic integrity. I outlined the main ideas of each articles, and tried to match key points or establish relationships amongst them in order to help me support comparisons between different ideas in the articles.
While writing my resume I recognized the importance of writing as essential to inquiry, learning, thinking, communicating, life-long learning, and as a career skill. By that time I was used to the Spanish model and format of resumes, and found challenging to write short sentences using actions verbs to describe each element of the resume, avoiding long explanatory paragraphs used in the Spanish model.
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