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Midterm Course Reflection

The student reflects on their learning throughout the midterm course. They did not previously have a composing process but now realize its importance for organizing writing projects. Critical reading was mainly done for other classes but is useful for correctly understanding communications. Examples of developing skills include: peer reviews helping with critical reflection; analyzing authors' narratives for critical reading; addressing an audience using evidence for rhetorical knowledge; using a process to write their memoir; and applying conventions in research blogs.

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Midterm Course Reflection

The student reflects on their learning throughout the midterm course. They did not previously have a composing process but now realize its importance for organizing writing projects. Critical reading was mainly done for other classes but is useful for correctly understanding communications. Examples of developing skills include: peer reviews helping with critical reflection; analyzing authors' narratives for critical reading; addressing an audience using evidence for rhetorical knowledge; using a process to write their memoir; and applying conventions in research blogs.

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Midterm Course Reflection

Part One: Reflection on Composing Processes


Before this class, I never had a composing process for anything regarding literature. I
usually had an idea from the get-go and just started writing. If anything, I could say that my
composing process would have been going back through my first draft and and changing things
around. However, that never really helped me start my paper. I do think that composing
processes are important because they help to create a clear way of writing a paper. Instead of
what I have been doing for the past couple of years, a composing process could prevent writers
block as well as give me a direct flow for all of my papers. I think every one needs to have the
skill to organize, conduct and finalize projects. This can be used in any fields or careers from
writing papers to designing a new product. All projects go through steps and stages to help
finalize the product. That is what we call composing processes. Going into engineering I think
that composing processes will be used frequently in my job. Whether I use composing processes
for a formal paper to describe a product or even designing the project. The start will always be to
have an idea of what needs to be done and then a rough draft or a prototype. After the first draft,
there will always be some editing that needs to be done before coming up with the final design in
the project.
Part Two: Critical Reading
The only times that I have done any critical reading before this class is for other English
classes. I have had to do some peer reviews and that required me to break down the other
persons text to give them feedback. I also have done some critical reading when it came to
reading books for other English classes. The teacher would usually tell us to annotate the text and
write down what the other meant as well as how we felt. The other time I have done critical
reading, well using phrases to discover new information, is when I am looking up things that
interest me. For example, if I wanted to know the lore behind a game I would look up that game
and then use critical reading to further my research and find out more about the origins of the
game. Critical reading is important in some cases. When it comes to communication, being able
to deduce what the writer is saying and interpret the material correctly is critical. If you dont
read a memo correctly, you could be doing the exact opposite of what is wanted in a project. All
careers and fields should be able to read critically and break down what someone is saying.
Being able to read something correctly in all careers is good for communication and success in
life. I think that everyone needs to be able to read critically, otherwise people would take things
too literal. For example, when a girl texts Yeah, sure whatever people need to break down that
code and realize that she is not okay. This could stop a lot of fights in relationships, just saying.
Part Three: Contextualizing my Learning
Critical Reflection: One of the best examples of critical reflection would be from the peer
reviews. Whether it was a peer review from the Extended Inquiry Process or from the
Researchers Guide all forms of peer review were a form of critical reflection. Critical Reflection
deals with being able understand what you are thinking in your writing and why you are thinking
that way. With the peer reviews I realized how other people thought of my works which opened
up my thinking in a new light. I started thinking of how other parts of my work could be taken.
This ultimately helped with my writing process.

Critical Reading: The first time I dealt with critical reading in this class was responding
to the personal narratives of authors. I talked about how I related most to Gerald Graff and how
he never liked English or was a reading person. This was the first time I was asked to analyze a
piece of text and personally relate to it. This assignment allowed me to experience analyzing,
interpret and synthesize with the ideas of another writer. I also found that I am not the only
person who hates reading and writing, but still does it and finds some passion in it.
Rhetorical Knowledge: Dealing with Rhetorical knowledge, I think that the readers
guide assignment best exemplified it. The readers guide used different texts and writing to appeal
to an audience and convey an idea to that audience. In the end the readers guide made me break
down pieces of writing and convey my opinion to an audience using textual evidence from
different types of texts. I also had to compare different texts and talk about how the rhetor in
each of the pieces could make my project better.
Composing Processes: The best use of a composing process was in the making of my
literacy memoir. This was the first big paper I had to do in this class and I really needed to get
my thoughts and ideas together to help build and shape my paper. The way the process went, it
really helped me finish and finalize my literacy memoir easier. The professor had us split up the
parts of the literacy memoir and write them individually. After all of the parts where written
individually they were either expounded upon or shrunk based on how the author felt. In the end
this composing process made creating the final draft for the literacy memoir ten times easier to
edit as well as put together.
Knowledge of Conventions: A good use of knowledge of conventions is the research
blogs. Since the text is just a blog there is a certain personality and formality that should have
been used in the text. This shows a good knowledge of conventions as it shapes the readers
expectations of correctness and appropriateness. It shows that the format shouldnt be a
completely formal writing, but it shouldnt be too informal that the reader cant understand the
material. The design also comes in to play when you had to make the blog readable along with
the research maps and getting that balance is a good use of conventions.
Part Four: Listing Corresponding Learning Outcomes
Critical Reflection:
Invention Draft
Feedback from Peer Responses
Literacy Memoir Reflective Letter
Small Group Reflections
Revision Goals
Critical Reading:
Personal Naratives
Peer Responses
Responding to Readers guide Article (Greene)
Kantz Response (Daybook)
Rhetorical Knowledge:
Readers Guide

Personal Narratives
Writers Responses
Composing Process:
Expectations of UWRT (Daybook)
Literacy Memoir
EIP
Readers Guide
Knowledge of Conventions:
Research Maps and Blogs
Group Presentations
Literacy Memoir
Readers Guide

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