Reflection 1
I believe that my SRD was not where I wanted it to be. I should have understood what the prompt was asking of us. I did not think that it should have been a formal looking paper. I genuinely believed I needed to step out of my comfort zone and make a shitty first draft. So, I would argue my feelings coming into the class were confused and possibly frustrated. I feel much more confident going forward after discussing it with someone else. I want to focus on really cleaning up my paper and getting a strong sense of my genre and less of an argument style of paper.
My partner today did an incredible job of highlighting the Gasparilla Festival down in Tampa and how that is a community she is apart of. I would love to get a read of her final of her paper, as she is a strong writer.
The most important thing I learned about my own writing would be the issue that I need to use different transitions and not be so repetitive. It is easy to grow comfortable, which is why I overall loved this assignment of becoming uncomfortable.
Reflection 2
I absolutely loved going to the one on one meeting with Ms. Allmand. As I mentioned to her prior, I was very unsure about this specific prompt. I had my reservations about getting out of my comfort zone with the shitty first drafts. I feel now I have a much more thorough understanding of how to go about this paper and how to include genre in my paragraphs about my community. I realized that this project is more so to help us see genre fit into various different communities and that there is no limit to which we can observe this. My paper leaving the conference will become much more polished with the advice of Ms. Allmand. My words are now able to not only tell a story, yet they carry a deeper understanding of rhetoric that I have never done before.
Reflection 3
I feel as although I gave more criticism on word choice and sentence structure. It is something I felt my partner's paper lacked and so we touched on what sentences were stronger and which were weaker. I was also able to recommend some sites that aid in learning grammatical structure. The flow of his paper was good, he just needed help seeing which sentences were more useable. I could work on my reviewing in the category of style as that is not my strong suit, so I am typically less likely to advise on it in a paper. I wish I got a little more thorough feedback. I feel as although it was very abrupt. The reviewer pointed out that I had some lack of professionalism in my paper, which I agreed to fix. I understand that we are under the time constraints of the class meet time, yet I feel as although my group member would shy away from making ay criticism that would be considered offensive. Honestly, I think no matter the offense criticism should be more truthful, or else what is the point?
Third Workshop Reflection
My writing has expanded quite a bit throughout this class. For this research paper, I am proud of how I am able to expand on the ideas of genre and rhetoric while learning about something as interesting as foster groups. My use of vocabulary and how my workflows have improved quite a bit and I feel as although it is evident in my writing here. My writing lacks in a few areas. I definitely feel as if I struggle with using articles that support my thesis enacting confirmation bias. That makes me question if I can strengthen my essay by playing my own devil’s advocate and embrace my confounding variables flat out in my writing. I also think that I would like to find out how to shorten my verbiage on certain paragraphs to place multiple sources together in one main point. I was unable to attend the workshop today, but I look forward to the conference in which I can dive deeper into even my own self-criticisms of this paper.
Second Conference Reflection
This conference allowed me to see some strengths and weaknesses' in my writing. I believe that I may have been taught a very specific way to write and add citations. Luckily, I was able to discover that through all different forms we find different citations. My paper needs more quotations added into it to give it more a research paper feel. I wasn’t as confident in my writing prior to the conference, but it motivated me to understand that writing takes time to construct a flow. This is why we have to have many drafts before we are able to get to the finished product. I was also able to discuss how to use more quotations in one paragraph in my essay. I feel much more confident going into this final draft knowing I have the right material needed for a well-worked research paper. This paper has shown to be much more of a difficult task than the last assignments. We are challenged to detach ourselves from our writing this time and provide much more factual details into our thesis. It is vital that we learn this at an early stage of writing development for other professors and classes may ask us to this time and time again.