When I first stepped foot into this class, I expected a pretty normal English writing course, with lots of writing, assignments and no practical work. I thought it was going to be mainly just about getting my work done and submitting it on time. But rather it was learning the process of writing. The why and how. As soon as I started I thought I was decent at writing and quite confident in my self to get the topic across the the ready but definitely needed some work on the process. And then I realized that this class is going to push me with what I’m not the most confident in and help me develope each piece of writing in a way I haven’t before. 

During project one I could see this and 2 SLOs were used. “Writing as a Process” and “Rhetorical Situation and Genre”. The first one definitely impacted me the most because it forced me to slow down and not rush my writing. It made me actually go back and revise all my work that I had wrote. During this u learnt that revision wasn’t just about fixing a mistake but it was like the cherry on top, where it puts the whole piece together weather it was the structure or just the writing as a whole.  Improving in all of these areas really meant I would be improving in my writing as a whole. 

The second SLO, “Rhetorical Situation and Genre”, pushed me to think about how my writing would be read from a readers perspective. I made extra sure the story I was trying convey made sense 100% of the time, and that every part could lead back to the main conflict or purpose of the story. I used to write stories and really steer away from the main topic but with this SLO I did otherwise. It forced me to ask myself who is reading? Why it matters? And what I want them to understand. This changed my project completely. And I used my reflection skills to help polish this off. I connected both parts of the writing into one. To make sure each choice I made was the write one and to help me grow my writing in the future. 

Project 2 had different challenges to the first one. This time it was focused on the “Communication” and “Research Intergration”. Building a discourse community website helped me communicate everything I knew about track and field so that anyone would understand it.  I had to organize different topics under 5 different pages in the website in a way which made it easy to navigate. This project taught me communication isn’t just putting down everything you know on a page but rather putting it down in a way everyone else will understand it as if you are explaining it to them step by step. I also learnt to use my research more intently, using sources from the web as well as the UNM library. All of those sources and research I obtained helped support all the knowledge I already knew about track and field. This can be seen at the bottom of each page where there would be a link to further research done on that page, for example the training page where it takes you to a page for specific work outs depending on your event. 

As the class came to an end I realized that I have grown way more than what I thought I would, as a communicator and writer as a whole. I learnt how to manage time, revise my work, take into account my audience, and use my research sources. These skills will help me not only in the future classes but actually will help me in day to day communication and conversations.