Final Reflection

Rahmah Hussein

English 21003, Section M

Professor Matyakubova

7 December 2017

Final Reflection

Over the course of the semester, I developed many strategies that improved my reading and writing skills. As early as the first day of the semester, when I realized all the papers I was going to write, I felt overwhelmed. However, my professor helped all of us step-by-step through our drafts and every assignment on how we can improve our writing skills. Before I wrote my assignments, of course we had to gather sources. Currently, I can gather relevant sources to my thesis, as it was challenging in the beginning. Reading the sources were as important as gathering them, my reading and analyzing capabilities have improved as well.

Along with reading and writing, I progressed to satisfy my audience’s expectations. From the informative report to the research paper, I was able to follow the format with additional details of my opinions in the argumentative report and the research paper. While writing these papers, I was also able to advance my ability to provide a stance. For the research paper, an interview was required, and it was the first time I conducted an interview in addition to writing a research paper. The interview seemed tough because I did not know what questions I wanted to come up with, then I tried to find which one of my claims did not have enough evidence. Lastly, the sources I’ve read, I needed to analyze, summarize, and paraphrase. I couldn’t implement those skills until it became a habit of doing that with the assigned readings and the number of sources that were required for each assignment. I believe that my strategies of becoming a good writer grew throughout the semester.