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.

I took and implemented feedback many time with my writing this semester. I used this feedback to not only rewrite my posts, but also to reconsider and enhance the ideas I put into those posts. Professor feedback was very helpful towards the end of the semester with some of the final essays. I was able to get many good ideas and points to argue that I feel really enhanced my research position.  Also, classmate feedback helped a lot.  With the assignment “help that hurts”, I was able to improve my style of writing, organization, grammar and other things.  I feel I was very open to feedback and criticism in my writing.   Mainly in my Definition rewrite essay, where my original essay was quite weak, I was able to make a much stronger essay with the help of feedback.

GOAL 2: I read source materials closely and analyzed them critically to learn how and why texts create meaning.

I paid very close attention to the material found in my sources.  I used multiple sources to get a better understanding of the background of the subject I was writing about. This allowed me to get as much information of the subject from multiple sources that I could.  I then found, read and analyzed multiple sources that had biased writing.  I read sources from both prospectives, for and against euthanasia.  This allowed me to gain a stronger sense of what opposing arguments were being made, and also a way to refute them. I also used different sources to strengthen the points I was making in support of my claims. I did this strongly in my Research Position Essay

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.

The particular audience I had in mind while writing was the professor and the rest of the class reading the blog. This cause my writing style and language to be a bit more on the informative side.  Knowing that most everyone in the class were writing on a different subject, I had to put more background information into my essays.  I felt It was necessary to establish a base to my writing, making sure to put in background information and basic details about the subject before I started to make my claims. The way I made my claims, were to introduce them, explain their relevance to the topic, then use sources to support them. I exemplify this in my Definition rewrite

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.

Before I started my research, the only claims I had were of my own thinking.  I made claims that I thought made sense and supported my position.  With further research, I was able to develop stronger claims that I could support with evidence, as well as support my original claims with the help of research.  With just my own thoughts, I wasn’t able to make a strong convincing argument. But with the help of research and feedback, I was able to make a much stronger, persuasive argument. I show this in my Causal Rewrite

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 feel my writing was very ethical.  I made honest claims and gave evidence that the claim was logical.  I didn’t make outrageous argument that were there to make my view look right and bash the opposite view. I also feel that my topic was very meaningful.  Euthanasia is a very important topic world wide.  I represented my ideas fairly honestly and logically. I properly sighted and gave credit to the ideas of other that I used to make my arguments.  My strongest case of this is my Research Position