Reflective Essay
Since becoming a college student, my writing process has changed in the sense that I am now more mindful of having a purpose when I set out to write. In high school, I would just begin writing whenever I had an assignment due: I did not prepare an outline or identify a thesis. I usually just wrote off the top of my head whatever I was thinking at the moment. Now that I am in this class and am picking up tips and lessons from the English 1301 course, I have a better idea of how writing is really more of a science than that. Writing is about having a vision and then communicating that vision in a logical manner to a reader. If you don’t know what that vision is to begin with, the writing will just ramble or meander and never go anywhere. In order to connect with the reader, the point should be clear. In this paper, I will show how my writing process has changed since becoming a college student and how I am working to meet the English 1301 course learning outcomes.
Before getting to college, writing was a spontaneous act: when tasked with doing it, I would...
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