GOAL 1: I used a multi-stage, recursive, and social process for my writing and took into consideration feedback from my instructor, classmates, and other readers.  In composition 2 with Professor Hodges I learned to affectively determine what writing style to apply to each assignment. Along with choosing a writing style I was also able to determine how to properly apply them to various writing situations such as the definition essay assignment. There was specific style that was used in each assessment. For the definition essay I had to apply fewer words with more meaning to creatively make my point across of what the Marshmallow Test really was without losing my audience. Now for the visual assignment I learned how to use my words in such a descriptive manner that the person wouldn’t even have to watch the video with sound to realize what the message was. By stating obvious signs and mannerisms that I saw watching the video I was able to effectively portray the message.  I also learned where to go and what to ask for proper feedback on a paper by simply asking for feedback on my assignments and also asking people that sit around me in class for their own interpretation. My ability to find sources online has also improved due to my Proposal +10. By going to library and looking for creditable sources through their selection I learned how to properly use a library to my advantage of going the best evidence to help support my theories.

GOAL 2: I read source materials closely and analyzed them critically to learn how and why texts create meaning.  I also learned through different assignments in class how to properly analyze a paper or text to interrupt the true meaning behind the material. I learned this through our Je Suis assignment where we looked at image of Charlie Brown. Here we learned the true meaning behind an image that the illustrator and publisher wished to bestow upon us. This helped me also become very descriptive and realize how to create meaning in my other texts and assignments. Now able to read texts and notice strategies that the publisher used effective I can get my message across more efficiently and can model my own writing for the future through assignments such as open strong. This was vital to me because my sentence structure needed to hold the audience’s attention in a more useful and effective manner.

GOAL 3: I wrote with a particular audience in mind, allowing my purpose to shape the language and methods I used not just to communicate information but to persuade readers.  By reading other classmates’ and publishers’ rhetorical situations I am now able to pick up on words and meanings without knowing them simply by using context clues which I began to use in my own writing of visual assignment. Here I used several strategies to effectively make my purpose meaningful and responsive towards my audience by interrupting the message to them without sound. I did this by using a format of revealing obvious signs that describe the meaning of the ad through specific grammar and mechanics. My assignments now have the ability to respond to varying audiences through format, support, use of citations, grammar, and mechanics.

GOAL 4: I demonstrated my information literacy by synthesizing my own experience with new insights and information from a range of outside sources to produce new material. With the help of both of my proposal +10 and Bibliography assignments, I am now able to better corroborate, expand, and develop my thoughts simply by the help of more vast supply of research. My sources allow me to evaluate how to properly trace, illustrate, and explain my ideas while writing by using different information and strategies in the most effective ways. Personal experiences, observations, interviews, film, and other sources of information now play a more key role for me in the assignments helping me distinguish what effective formation is opposed to unnecessary information. My in-text citations, works cited pages, and bibliographies now hold a bigger meaning such as in the research paper where the evidence is vital and to have the best evidence you need the most meaningful sources.

GOAL 5: My writing is ethical. Writing about meaningful topics, I have engaged responsibly with them and represented my ideas and the ideas of others honestly, fairly, and logically. I now have a better awareness of how the complexity of ideas associates with issues such as my research position paper. In my paper I began to realize to true complexity behind the whole Marshmallow Experiment and the true meaning behind the study. My assignments show a better understanding of my own viewpoint and how I justify my opinion. I can set up boundaries between my voice and the voice of others by using appropriate paraphrases, quotations, and citations accordingly and with high expiations of academic integrity. I learned the importance of academic integrity and the fact of taking someone else’s thoughts is just wrong and useless in proving my own opinion on an assignment. Learning where to find good creditable sources was also vital in respecting academic integrity that was shown to me by Professor Hodges at the begging of the year. I noticed that the library has several sources but you must dig deep to find the best ones.