Final Reflection

Self-Knowledge
1. I have found myself to be a much more than I had expected natural and learned writer.
2. As a writer, I feel that I have learned a great deal about theses and topic sentences throughout this semester.
5. At the beginning of the semester, I felt much less focused and structured than now at the end.
6. Even through all of this, I feel that there is much more to learn on style and technique.

Content Knowledge
1. I grappled with the thesis and topic sentences, but I did learn about these quite a bit too.
3. People can care about the same things that I care about.
4. People are idiots, and idiocy is what evolves language.

Rhetorical Knowledge
2. People can be very judgmental, so you have to be careful when you use the word you.
3. I need to be aware of how my audience will react to what I am writing.

Critical Knowledge
3. I appreciate all feedback, especially feedback that will be helpful and constructive from someone that is and accomplished writer. Peers can be disappointing and unhelpful when looking for constructive criticism, so I was not enthused about it.
4. For my persuasive paper, near the end I finally started to tailor it to a specific audience, do i would have liked more time.
5. Again, thesis and topic sentences were challenging and helpful.
8. Writing will be helpful in every class, and knowing how it all works is very helpful for future reference.
9. My favorite part of class was the comradery that the class held. My least favorite parts were free-writing and peer review. I can sort of see how free-writing might be helpful for others, but peer review is just silly as no one really participates as they should. "Oh, what a nice paper! I really like it!" So less free-writing and less peer review would be awesome.