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    Raymond Sanchez reflects on what he has learned about himself as a writer, reader, and reviser through assignments in his Writing 2 class over 10 weeks. He discovered that he works best when taking his time and working around his schedule. As a reader, he realized he needs to start assignments earlier. As a reviser, he improved at providing balanced feedback and using markings to help edit his own work. The course also helped him learn about genres, discourse communities, and research sources which will help him in his academic career going forward.

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    Raymond Sanchez reflects on what he has learned about himself as a writer, reader, and reviser through assignments in his Writing 2 class over 10 weeks. He discovered that he works best when taking his time and working around his schedule. As a reader, he realized he needs to start assignments earlier. As a reviser, he improved at providing balanced feedback and using markings to help edit his own work. The course also helped him learn about genres, discourse communities, and research sources which will help him in his academic career going forward.

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    Raymond Sanchez reflects on what he has learned about himself as a writer, reader, and reviser through assignments in his Writing 2 class over 10 weeks. He discovered that he works best when taking his time and working around his schedule. As a reader, he realized he needs to start assignments earlier. As a reviser, he improved at providing balanced feedback and using markings to help edit his own work. The course also helped him learn about genres, discourse communities, and research sources which will help him in his academic career going forward.

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    Sanchez 1

    Raymond Sanchez

    Speiser

    Writing 2/#4400

    3/20/17

    Metacognitive Essay
    During the scope on 10 weeks the assignments given in my Writing 2 class have helped

    me understand more about myself as a writer, reader, reviser and my work ethic, I learned many

    new topics like genre, discourse community, and used sources available to me like the university

    library. All these things helped me gain understanding of what is a head of my academic career.

    What I learned about myself as a writer is that I like to take my time in assignments. My

    method is structured and must work around my schedule of work study, physics, studying and

    physics lab. To make these assignments as stress free as possible I noticed I take frequent breaks

    to help me gather my thoughts or just to relax if I just had a prolonged writing session. During

    this course, I also learned about how I am as a reader. During the first four-weeks of this course

    many readings were assigned to the class. During these assignments, I waited till our class ended

    or the next day to start these readings. Since many of these reading was accompanied by online

    discussion forums I had to finish them quickly.

    As a reviser, my biggest issue was to accurately tell my peers what to improve. During

    the first peer review on the first writing project I wrote very little criticism and was more biased

    toward the complements. I also noticed that I wrote short phrases, as time went by I moved

    toward having equal representation in criticism and praise on the students paper as well as
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    writing clear and coherent sentences for improvements and mistakes. Revising my own papers, I

    learned that it is hard to find mistakes when viewing your own paper. So, whenever I have a

    physical copy I use pens, and highlighters to mark up what I need to improve on my next draft.

    This really helps me since the color helps mark the problem areas and is easy to find on the white

    paper. When it comes to thinking about my assignments ad coming up with an argument It takes

    me a while to formulate a strong thesis. Since these assignments are due in a span of two weeks

    it gives me ample time to think about my argument. Overall, I learned through theses 10-weeks

    that my work ethic is very structured and time oriented.

    The Writing 2 course goals I learned about genre, discourse communities, library

    resources, and how to analyze readings. I learned that genre is very complex and often follow

    tropes that define those genres. In one of our first readings the example given where about

    country music and how this genre has a structure and many of the country songs follow the

    structure. Genre theory is also being a major factor on how these genres came to be. In this

    theory genre are created and developed to generalize how to respond in specific situations.

    Without a genre, it would make writing more lengthy and tedious not knowing how to respond in

    a situation.

    I also learned a lot about discourse communities, the six criteria that make discourse

    communities helped describe how we view genre and how it is essential that these communities

    communicate and actively be involved. Analyzing these criteria, I learned of rhetoric and

    rhetorical devices that these discourse communities use. The choices the author makes

    contribute how the tone of the paper will come out. Within context I learned that writing differs

    within each subject and writing well in those subjects you need to shape your writing with the

    rhetorical devises of those discourse communities.


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    Learning about myself and the course goals my portfolio and revisions is an accurate

    representation of what I learned in these 10-weeks. As a writer, I believe my strengths are my

    work ethic and my ability to plan when I am going to work on an assignment, on the other hand

    my weakness is the inability to have my thoughts accurate expressed on the first try and the

    frequent writers blocks when coming up with arguments or detailed explanations to support my

    thesis. What changed during this course is my confidence level on my writing has improved this

    course has helped me understand how to analyze papers and why the author chose the specific

    lexis and rhetorical devices. The readings have helped me gain new knowledge about genres,

    writing first drafts, and discourse communities. All this new information has helped me better

    understand how reading and writing can vary greatly between genres. Going forth into my

    academic career this will help me portray and understand the standard on my respective field of

    work.

    Work Cited
    Dirk, Kerry. Navigating Genres Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1. 29

    Jan 2017

    Swales, John. The Concept of Discourse Community. Genre Analysis: English in

    Academic and Research Settings. Boston: Cambridge UP, 1990. 21-32

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