Unit #1 Reflection

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Before enrolling in WRIT 101, I knew quite a bit about writing due to previous experience in high school. I was always very good at it, and was typically the one my friends would go to when they needed someone to look over their paper for grammar and spelling errors. In this class, I’ve built upon these skills because I have been taught to go more in depth with what I am writing about, providing the reader and I with more of a sense of clarity on what is being written about. I still need to work on quite a bit in the explanatory department, but I’m glad I am improving overall. 

My Group Workshop experience definitely helped me in the drafting process because I was able to see how my story was perceived by others and getting feedback from them was so important because it helped bring myself to a better understanding of what I needed to add or remove from my story. 

The advice I received from my group workshop partner and teacher was to add more in depth explanations on why I had to do certain things that led me to make big decisions pertaining to my academic and athletic career in high school. I chose to follow this advice and I think it made my story better as a whole, and provided myself and the reader with clarity that wasn’t there before the addition. 

For revision, the strategies I used were peer reviews, explaining who the important characters in the story are to me, adding side information that doesn’t take the story off track, and also adding a question in my introduction/thesis. 

My strengths in the final draft of my project were definitely providing the reader with a clear perspective on what was going on and how it all affected me, and my weaknesses could have been to stay on track, and also providing as much information as possible pertaining to some “why?”s the reader might have. 

While working on this project, I discovered that as a writer, I find it so important to clarify people, feelings, backstories, and reasons that all pertain to the story being told. 

If I had one more day to work on this project, I would probably keep my story the same, but I also would try to reach a higher word count because I felt as if I did not have enough.