- Three things you learned
- 1. Business email writing skills are important to convey professionalism and courteousness in a work setting. Though this skill is quickly dwindling, its necessity is becoming increasing vital in an culture of informal, electronic communication.
- 2. Choosing words that convey appropriate meaning and context are important while not overdoing it and sounding pretentious. This was evident in our quiz while closing which phrase best fit the context of the paragraph.
- 3. A WordPress, or other blog site, can be great for showcasing personal writings which can be beneficial when interviewing for jobs or graduate school. I will also add previous writings of mine on the blog after this semester.
- Two things that were confusing
- 1. A few of the questions on the Opening and Closing Paragraphs were stumping me but I appreciated that the quiz platform provides the corresponding section in our book for further studying. After reading the corresponding section, I went back through and looked for the closing paragraphs that did not add any new information but rather summarized the main points and wrapped up the section.
- 2. During the Prestudy Diagnostic quiz, I realized that my technical knowledge of sentence structure is lacking and that I need to work towards improving it, along with my technical grammar knowledge, throughout this semester.
- One ah-ha moment
- I was struggling during Quiz #5 (Subject-Verb Agreement), which was evident by a low score for the first three-quarters of the quiz. I understood how to make the subject and very agree but some of the more confusing ones were troubling me. However, I eventually began to understand how to write them in agreement by reading through out Little Seagull book; my score dramatically improved after taking a break to study the ones that were harder for me.
- Two topics you hope to cover
- 1. How to correctly cite a research paper
- 2. Sentence Structure (which we have already started doing a little bit)
- Three personal learning goals for this semester
- 1. Increase my skills and knowledge on how to cite a research paper
- 2. Improve the structure of my papers so the progression of the essay coincides with the progression of my thought process of that topic.
- 3. Improve my drafting process for writing essays. I need to find a better way to organize, edit and draft before completing my final draft.
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