Reflection Essay-Post #10

My writing skills have improved throughout the course by changing my whole viewpoint towards writing and how I should approach writing. The course has made me of a more diligent writer and a better criticizer when it comes to writing from what I was previously. It has made me realize my mistakes more clearly and what steps I should take according to those mistakes. I now write

with making sure no bias is involved but also how to include it when necessary. Also what sort of words I should use instead of just including words that would seem to make the essay powerful but instead doesn't.

When it comes to knowing one's intention as a writer and how to identify it, post # 2 improved my ability to do just that. When writing post #2, I was told to rewrite a new article that I found to be not as effective as it could have been and to write my own version of it without including the exact words from the original article. By breaking the article down and fixing its weak points, I was able to know exactly what the authors intention and how he tried to implement that intention in his article.

Post 2 also has made me to view every article I come across the internet with a sense of uncertainty of what the article is meant to be and whether if it is effective. It has taken the concept we learned in class and helped me apply it to the real world. Because whenever I read something online, I take in the fact that whatever I’m reading has a high probability of it being unreliable, especially on certain websites such as Wikipedia, or Fox news. And by taking apart a article that seems biased and unreliable, it enhances my ability to spot these types of articles.

My ability to determine the audience for a piece of writing and what style, tone, and format I should apply based on the audience and purposed has improved when I wrote my first article, on Malaysian Cuisine. When looking for a article that I had to rewrite, I chose one that I have a lot of experience in because I know exactly what type of people would be looking for an article with such information. And being born in the country of the cuisine helps me out with that too. And by doing so, I wrote the article without bias and included information that a food connoisseur or a traveler would relate to. Or anyone that has a deep love for food. To apply to such a audience, I wrote the article with a unbiased style, and with a informative tone to do so. The type of format also strengthened my article, because by breaking the article up into different sections, it makes it easier to know what exactly Im gonna be writing about, because it makes it easier to read rather in different sections than having it all into one paragraph.

The learning outcome which I had most difficulty with was demonstrating objectivity toward one's own writing. A prime example of my transformation is post #8, which was about the different types of computers there are. My first draft was too extended and short in detail which made it a weak article. By having it into 10 sections, my whole objectivity was lost in the process because it confused people with all different types of information coming at them. And most of the sections were really similar to each other and as a result confused most people because the information was all over the place and was hard to relate it back. And after our revision in class, I realized the mistakes I had made with severe but extremely helpful criticism from my peers. And so I made the changes that were necessary to improve my article in post #9.

The rhetorical mode essay which I believe I did well in was post #5, which was extended definition of a term such as love, hate, or success. The objectivity of the essay was to attempt to define and explore a term. The term I chose was success which is hard to define because there’s so many different definition people have of that term. But I did so to the best of my abilities with quotes from prominent successful people to back up my claims.