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Midterm Reflection

Part One summarizes the importance of composing processes in writing organized, coherent papers that are tailored for different genres and audiences. Composing processes allow writers to produce a variety of writing styles. Part Two explains that critical reading is an essential skill for comprehending complex ideas in various texts beyond the classroom, including novels, magazines, blogs, and important documents. Critical reading abilities are important for career and educational success. Part Three describes different assignments from a writing course that aligned with specific student learning outcomes, including an assignment where students identified their audience and applied strategies to compose intentionally, an exercise where students created visual representations of texts to aid comprehension, and a lengthy paper assignment that was broken into prompts to practice drafting, re

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Midterm Reflection

Part One summarizes the importance of composing processes in writing organized, coherent papers that are tailored for different genres and audiences. Composing processes allow writers to produce a variety of writing styles. Part Two explains that critical reading is an essential skill for comprehending complex ideas in various texts beyond the classroom, including novels, magazines, blogs, and important documents. Critical reading abilities are important for career and educational success. Part Three describes different assignments from a writing course that aligned with specific student learning outcomes, including an assignment where students identified their audience and applied strategies to compose intentionally, an exercise where students created visual representations of texts to aid comprehension, and a lengthy paper assignment that was broken into prompts to practice drafting, re

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Part One: Composing Processes

Before UWRT 1103 I practiced composing processes in every


single one of my English and literature classes. Composing processes
are essential to high marked papers. These skills are vitally important
to any student who wants to perform well and receive a passing grade.
If you don't implement composing processes into your papers they will
be disorganized, chaotic, and various other synonyms that portray
messiness. The composing process varies with different genres, and
audiences. This is another prime example of why they're so important.
The versatility of composing process is what produces the various
genres and styles of writing we're accustomed to today.
Part Two: Critical Reading
Critical reading is practiced not only in the classroom but it is
also practiced unconsciously in the novels, magazines and blogs we
read. Critical reading is an essential skill needed to comprehend
higher-level ideologies authors implement into their writing. Every
student needs to learn the skill of critical reading if they want to raise
their reading and writing levels respectively. Teachers, Doctors,
Lawyers, Writers and multiple other fields use critical reading in their
everyday practices. Not only do you use critical reading inside of your
career and college but you also use it in life beyond college reading
finical and legal documents for example.
Part Three:
During UWRT 1103 The 'Readers Guide' assignment
corresponded with the SLO of Rhetorical Knowledge. During the
readers guide assignment we exercised rhetorical knowledge by
identifying our audience and applying multimodal strategies to
compose with intention. Our readers guide presented us with topics
that varied greatly by subject. In order to accommodate the wide range
of subjects we had to understand how genre, audience, purpose and
context impact writing choices.
The Day Book exercise where we created 'Readers Maps'
correlates to critical reading, forcing us to focus in on specific aspects
of the text in order to create visual representatives. Creating the maps
helped us to make discoveries about the reading we couldn't by just
simply reading the text.
When our class started our 'Literacy Journeys' we implemented
the SLO of composing processes. In order to write such a lengthy paper
we broke the body contents into different prompts, which came
together to make a final paper. This was a successful implementation
of the SLO, which demonstrates the flexible strategies for drafting,
revising, and rewriting.
In the beginning of the semester when we discussed 'Discourse
Communities' but little did we know we were essentially discussing the
SLO Knowledge of Conventions. Discourse communities contain rules

and formal guidelines that shape them much like how knowledge of
conventions contains rules and formal guidelines that shape genres. I
learned discourse communities have certain lexis, which are words,
and phrases that are specific to a community; correlating it to
knowledge of conventions we develop knowledge of linguistic
structures.
On February 16th 2016 we completed an assignment titled
'Making Connections' which correlates to critical reflection because we
analyzed and reflected on the skills we would need in order to
complete an assignment. This daybook entry falls under the category
perfectly as it is a means of using writing for reflection.
Part Four:
Readers guide- Rhetorical Knowledge
Readers Map- Critical Reading
Literacy Journey- Composing Processes
Discourse Communities- Knowledge of Conventions
Making Connections Daybook Entry- Critical Reflection

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