Writing About Writing

Kailyn Lyles
Prof. Strickland
ENGL1900
20 November 2015

Coming to end of our writing endeavors in the semester, we are to reflect on the course and its preparation for our research paper and multimedia project. After reviewing previous assignments in the semester, grades received, and struggles throughout the course, I have formulated a few ideas. The course though well planned needed not more assignments, but different. The most essential assignments that aided our writing career were the in-class automobile ban essay and the continuous referral to paradigms within "They Say I Say."

Assignments that I would have enjoyed in preparation for the research paper would be blog post hat pertain to our research topic or our issue of advocacy. This not only gives the class a sneak peek, it gives us practice on our arguments, objections, claims, and evidence use. Moreover, the class can comment and give us positive or negative feedback wherever it is needed. I do not believe that more short papers were necessary because some were written in class and in an alternate light, our blog posts are short essays. I believe our in class writing may have lacked slightly, but with the addition of fight club and quizzes, our typing, idea formulation, and debate skills made up for it.

In reference to our drafts, I believe the time of their entrance and their due dates were efficient and effective. I don't believe that more or less needed to implemented. I would not change any significant amount of our writing process. I personally have grown and developed as a writer and my only piece of advice is to remember that students come first. You have to make sure they are fully prepared or on the track to becoming so, And in closing, I do believe we have all taken an effective tool away from Advanced Strategies in Rhetoric & Research.