Reflective essay
English 1312 is a course offered at the University of Texas at El Paso, the class is called English Research and Critical Writing. The purpose of this class is to develop critical thinking selecting a topic from which throughout the semester each student will be doing research depending on the assignment. The assignments performed in the spring semester were Genre Analysis, Literature Review, Documentary Piece, and Online Opinion Piece. My topic for this class was Medical Treatment Refusal Right it was an excellent topic for me because it allowed me to learn about my career while doing research.
Where do you see yourself as a writer?
I see myself as a writer not going so far, just getting to be the student who knows how to do an essay following a structure. I know that writing, using my imagination and critical thinking are not my strengths, but when having to apply them I try to do my best. My strengths in writing are that I follow rules; I learn quickly about structure, I know grammar and punctuation. For the future what I need to improve is the expanding of my vocabulary, this will be in order to be able to express myself professionally and be able to use different words that will mean the same but, I will also have to improve the order of my ideas while writing in order to be able to express myself correctly and make it easier for others to understand.
How will writing play a role in your life moving forward?
I think that writing in my life has been very important, since middle school I had a teacher that made us learn grammar correctly, she emphasized in how to structure an essay correctly including every part of it: introduction, body, and conclusion, and she was very strict while grading being careful that every essay was long enough more than 4 pages; she said, “You will grow up, you will be going to college and you will be prepared it,” she even made us write a book, we had to put color, images and it had to be more than 100 pages, that project was pretty amazing but I did it. My teacher was right; I am prepared to write a college essay. Writing has played a big role in my life because it is what I have been doing throughout my life; it has not been just for English but also History, Science, and different courses.
The sort of writing I will engage in within my university life is writing for Science to learn more about the topic and be prepared for Med-School, most of my writing will be research papers and persuasive essays. The sort of writing I will engage in my personal life are email knowing how to write one correctly and text messages. The audiences I will need to address will be classmates, friends, professors, and family; they all are address different my professors and classmates are address with formal language and my family and friends will be with an informal language.
What does it means to be persuasive?
Being persuasive means to convince someone that has a different opinion about a topic that what you are saying is correct. At the beginning when I started with my topic Medical Treatment Refusal Right I was being persuasive in this topic saying that patients should lose their right to refuse to medical treatment, I said that because I wanted that every patient no matter if his or her situation was good news or bad news they should receive treatment forcedly in order to have a healthy community. Throughout my research in the semester I ended being persuasive about that every patient should be able to decide if they want medical treatment or not, I changed to this perspective or better I persuaded myself to this position because I think that every person is different and many factors common along like the culture, traditions, religion, or economic matters; but in other for a patient to make a decision the doctor should ask him or her if they want to receive medical treatment and what the procedure would be. Yes, throughout the semester I use persuasion and I persuade myself to believe in another different thing, now I know more about the topic, I have an idea of why people chose those decisions and I agree to believe in those decisions.
What does it mean to revise?
For me revise it to check a draft and look for errors in grammar, structure and punctuation. Before entering the FYC program revise was just that grammar, structure and punctuation. Now I have learned that yes it does includes those three things, but it also includes positive comments about your writing giving you feedback in what you do great and also telling you the areas that you might improve or add information in your essay.
Non-textual performance challenges
I think that one of the biggest challenges in the website production is the use of creativity, because you need to make sure that a person that visits your webpage will get impress wanting to see more, in the video production the biggest challenge was to work in theme it might seem easy because you divide the work but you need to be sure that the other person likes your ideas. I do not think that non-textual performance will play an important role in my goals, my goals are set in a different direction, my goals are directed to textual performance, my goal is to become an excellent Pediatrician and it involves lot of studying, notes, and research.
What does and does not count as writing?
For me what counts as writing is to write an essay, summary or synthesis, a script; what do not count as writing neither a video nor images. I think that no writing is good or bad, everyone have their own view, but no one can judge for what you write, a good writing can start in a post-it and end in a long book, and bad writing can also start in a post- it and end in a long book.
English 1312 is a course offered at the University of Texas at El Paso, the class is called English Research and Critical Writing. The purpose of this class is to develop critical thinking selecting a topic from which throughout the semester each student will be doing research depending on the assignment. The assignments performed in the spring semester were Genre Analysis, Literature Review, Documentary Piece, and Online Opinion Piece. My topic for this class was Medical Treatment Refusal Right it was an excellent topic for me because it allowed me to learn about my career while doing research.
Where do you see yourself as a writer?
I see myself as a writer not going so far, just getting to be the student who knows how to do an essay following a structure. I know that writing, using my imagination and critical thinking are not my strengths, but when having to apply them I try to do my best. My strengths in writing are that I follow rules; I learn quickly about structure, I know grammar and punctuation. For the future what I need to improve is the expanding of my vocabulary, this will be in order to be able to express myself professionally and be able to use different words that will mean the same but, I will also have to improve the order of my ideas while writing in order to be able to express myself correctly and make it easier for others to understand.
How will writing play a role in your life moving forward?
I think that writing in my life has been very important, since middle school I had a teacher that made us learn grammar correctly, she emphasized in how to structure an essay correctly including every part of it: introduction, body, and conclusion, and she was very strict while grading being careful that every essay was long enough more than 4 pages; she said, “You will grow up, you will be going to college and you will be prepared it,” she even made us write a book, we had to put color, images and it had to be more than 100 pages, that project was pretty amazing but I did it. My teacher was right; I am prepared to write a college essay. Writing has played a big role in my life because it is what I have been doing throughout my life; it has not been just for English but also History, Science, and different courses.
The sort of writing I will engage in within my university life is writing for Science to learn more about the topic and be prepared for Med-School, most of my writing will be research papers and persuasive essays. The sort of writing I will engage in my personal life are email knowing how to write one correctly and text messages. The audiences I will need to address will be classmates, friends, professors, and family; they all are address different my professors and classmates are address with formal language and my family and friends will be with an informal language.
What does it means to be persuasive?
Being persuasive means to convince someone that has a different opinion about a topic that what you are saying is correct. At the beginning when I started with my topic Medical Treatment Refusal Right I was being persuasive in this topic saying that patients should lose their right to refuse to medical treatment, I said that because I wanted that every patient no matter if his or her situation was good news or bad news they should receive treatment forcedly in order to have a healthy community. Throughout my research in the semester I ended being persuasive about that every patient should be able to decide if they want medical treatment or not, I changed to this perspective or better I persuaded myself to this position because I think that every person is different and many factors common along like the culture, traditions, religion, or economic matters; but in other for a patient to make a decision the doctor should ask him or her if they want to receive medical treatment and what the procedure would be. Yes, throughout the semester I use persuasion and I persuade myself to believe in another different thing, now I know more about the topic, I have an idea of why people chose those decisions and I agree to believe in those decisions.
What does it mean to revise?
For me revise it to check a draft and look for errors in grammar, structure and punctuation. Before entering the FYC program revise was just that grammar, structure and punctuation. Now I have learned that yes it does includes those three things, but it also includes positive comments about your writing giving you feedback in what you do great and also telling you the areas that you might improve or add information in your essay.
Non-textual performance challenges
I think that one of the biggest challenges in the website production is the use of creativity, because you need to make sure that a person that visits your webpage will get impress wanting to see more, in the video production the biggest challenge was to work in theme it might seem easy because you divide the work but you need to be sure that the other person likes your ideas. I do not think that non-textual performance will play an important role in my goals, my goals are set in a different direction, my goals are directed to textual performance, my goal is to become an excellent Pediatrician and it involves lot of studying, notes, and research.
What does and does not count as writing?
For me what counts as writing is to write an essay, summary or synthesis, a script; what do not count as writing neither a video nor images. I think that no writing is good or bad, everyone have their own view, but no one can judge for what you write, a good writing can start in a post-it and end in a long book, and bad writing can also start in a post- it and end in a long book.