Weekly Reflections

This assessment helped me to think about what I really need to still work on and what I am doing better at. One thing I need to work on is my placement of evidence and incorporating the evidence in my writing. Another thing I need to work on is my bias in my writing and becoming more open to newer ideas. Something that I do pretty well is finding good detailed evidence for my writing.

Some things that I learned from the reflective writing video is that it is not just about looking at the past. You can look at how you will progress to make your writing better in the future and what you can change about your writing to make it better. Also when you are looking at the past don’t just look at one small event or one writing piece, look at many different pieces that all add up to where you are.

Reflection is important in becoming a better writer and student because you can learn from your mistakes and figure out what you need to do to make yourself better. It will also help to build your self confidence in the end when you start growing.

Reflection is a good thing outside of the class because you need to learn how to reflect on your past actions to better yourself and challenge yourself, but ultimatley to find out what you need to work on in your life or what you are doing well.

It is important for college students to read, discuss and write about books like What the Eyes don’t See because it shows students overcoming problems and not giving up. The book talks about the Flint water crisis and how people did not give up and they fought for what was being over looked and how they were being treated from the government. It is also good for students to read this book so that we do not repeat history and make the same mistakes that sadly do happen over and over sometimes. Most importantly it shows how all kinds of people can come together to find solutions to huge problems and people do not always have to be divided.

Willingham’s purpose is to bring awareness to the fact that people may think they multi-task well, but they will still be distracted and miss important details.

Willingham’s audience is people who can drive, study or multi-taskers.

I would say that Willingham’s stance would be more towards the side of not agreeing with multi-tasking, but he does not completely cancel out people who may believe that it works in some situations, such as, say listening to music while studying.

I believe that this op-ed is convincing and persuasive because Willingham uses many surveys and other evidence to show the audience real life forms of how people feel when trying to multi-task  and if they are successful or not.

I would consider one of my greatest strengths as a writer to be being able to get very deep into a thought and become very detailed.

My greatest weaknesses in writing would have to be getting a thought out and finding a good way to say what I want to without falling into tangents or loosing tract of what the actual point is.

Some parts of writing projects that cause me the most stress would have to be coming up with an idea for a paper. Other parts that cause me the most stress would have to be writing thesis statements, introductions and conclusions.

Weekly Reflections are longer, more thoughtful posts that you will complete about every week of the semester. Topics for these posts will vary by instructor, but they will usually be completed outside of class and have a specific word-count requirement.