The texts Reflective Writing and Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection are about how reflective writing differs from regular writing. Regular writing focuses more on Descriptions such as who, what, where, and when whereas reflective writing focuses on the why part, the hindsight. This semester was my first semester at Delaware County Community College, I felt very welcomed by everyone. It was a strange feeling to be surrounded by people that were in the same class but were all of different ages. It was a great experience that I am glad I decided to try. I am planning to take more classes over the summer and into the fall semester.For the short time that our English 101 class lasted I feel like I learned much more than I ever have in a year of English at Marple.
Thinking back to the beginning of this course, I remember 2 things related to the course work, I remember, first doing 3 quick writes on the first day about how we felt during the class. At first I assumed it was just a writing exercise and an excuse to have the class write under pressure. After some time I realized that we were doing much more than that. We revisited the writing about a week later and upon reading it I remember much more about that first day in class than I could compared to classes where I had not written about anything. This showed me that we hold memories in our writing, we connect ourselves to our writing, and even now as I reflect upon that record of my feelings I begin to remember more about what we did each day in the class. The second thing I remember about the class was GRITT, which was an acronym that stood for Genre, Rhetorical, Identity, Theory, and Transfer. Much of our course was centered around this acronym. We learned about Genre awareness and through that I was able to distinguish the difference between the three main different genres of literature which are, Persuasive, Entertaining, and Informative. I also learned about Rhetorical awareness which is who the writer intends the audience of his work to be. I also learned how to identify myself as an author and how it is different from my normal self. I learned how to appreciate my writing and the writing of others, and the secret messages that are embedded within their work. I plan to extend what I learned in this class to the real world by improving my writing in the future and being more careful about what I am writing instead of throwing something together.
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Sabatino
5/12/2020 11:39:40 am
I appreciate how this reflection begins with a short anecdote about our first class and moves to connect that experience to one of the overall themes we explored in class (in your own words):
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