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Writing Skills Reflection and Growth

The student reflects on their Writing and Rhetoric class this semester. They learned valuable writing skills through challenging assignments, including how to properly cite sources using APA format in a synthesis essay. For a literature review group project, the student used research techniques like Google Scholar and a research matrix to organize their paper. Overall, the student feels this was one of their most informative semesters for gaining new writing techniques and skills like improved organization that they will apply throughout college.

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Writing Skills Reflection and Growth

The student reflects on their Writing and Rhetoric class this semester. They learned valuable writing skills through challenging assignments, including how to properly cite sources using APA format in a synthesis essay. For a literature review group project, the student used research techniques like Google Scholar and a research matrix to organize their paper. Overall, the student feels this was one of their most informative semesters for gaining new writing techniques and skills like improved organization that they will apply throughout college.

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Reflection

This semester of Writing and Rhetoric proved to have many good qualities, but the one
above all is the experience and knowledge I’ve gained through the various challenging writing
assignments. In the aspect of writing, this class was everything I could’ve expected, and coming
from high school, I was pleasantly surprised as to how much my work back then prepared me
for any task. I have incorporated multiple techniques and methods I have read in textbooks and
many articles into my writing. For example, through my research while writing the synthesis
document, I learned the true value of words and began to understand the importance of
sentence styling when crafting an essay. For this project specifically, I will be presenting 2
projects assigned to me through the semester, the Synthesis Essay and Literature Review.

Instructions for the Synthesis essay entailed that we take a chapter (five articles of our
choice) from the book Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts for Writing Studies and
synthesize it with proper citations and references. This assignment was important to me
because it helped me refine a very important skill: citing my sources. My teachers in the past
never made too much of a fuss about citing incorrectly, but they still ingrained in my head how
important it was in college. I’m glad we were required to use the APA referencing format, as
before, I wasn’t sure I knew how to cite properly whatsoever. The synthesis format itself wasn’t
new to me, as I’d done countless of them in AP Literature the year before but having rekindled
instruction on it will only refine my skills further.

The Literature Review was our final large writing assignment for the semester, and it
definitely lived up to that. Though this was a group assignment for me, I still found my
experience with the project to be informative. It entailed that we pick a research topic, make an
inquiry around that topic, and synthesize that inquiry into an essay with references using at
least 12 sources. In order to search for appropriate articles for our research topic, we had to
use Google Scholar, which I had menial experience with during high school. The most important
technique I gained from this project is the research matrix, which is a complex table used to
organize the structure of any given review. Through it, I learned that we need to say more with
less words instead of it being the other way around.

This class has given me key lessons in writing, and this might’ve been the single most
informative semester I’ve had in terms of learning new techniques and skills. I feel like my
organization and consistency when writing has greatly improved, not to mention my newfound
skill in APA referencing. I’ll honor what I’ve learned this semester by using these skills all
throughout college and in any situation beyond where writing is involved.

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