Ullash kundu Joy
Professor Lisa Rogal
English 1100
05/11/2020
Self-Assessment
Throughout this course, I have learned such so many necessary things that are helping develop my writing skill. Whole in this semester, we are working in this course about the rhetorical situation, citation, finding scholarly sources, and improving writing skills. Also, I have learned about some great academic paper writing format, how the author needs to handle those when it writes.
In this course first, we had read in Brent staple’s essay. Throughout this essay, we have to find out the situation that I was also facing in my life and write a journal about it. Also, we looked at the rhetorical situation. After this reading, we had also read the Carr’s essay. In this essay, we have noticed how he introduces the author in his essay to make his argument reliable. Also, we have described one quote in Car’s essay writer as a journal. Throughout two of these readings, I have learned the importance of the rhetorical situation in writing. I am also keep following the same footsteps in my mind about this when I am writing. Below I added in my journal for my reader understanding. First, in the narrative essay, we are just describing our personal story that creates a place in mind. Throughout this paper, we have learned how to describe any story and made it interested in the reader.
This class also discussed like mapping, drafting, brainstorming, such kind of things that help us create engaged with our topic. I follow the brainstorming and mapping or pointing. I have done two of those before starting any paper writing. Those two steps are helping me to make an involved with my topic.
My second essay was “An Exploratory” for this course. In this task, we created a question at the beginning of the essay and we have to explore this question throughout this paper. In this paper, the most important is the question and how we explore the answer. It’s a critical task for the author to addressed the question correctly so that readers can understand the concept of the ask. During this essay, I have learned how to explore any question. For this reason, in my exploratory essay, I have used the topic as “Marijuana use and legalization marijuana in the USA.” This topic clearly says about this paper as describing marijuana use and its legalization in the country. Also in this paper, we are doing citations and using sources for making our argument reliable. In Exploratory essay, I have also learned about citation. Citation source is essential for any paper since we need to give credit to ideas that are not ours. We have practiced these precedent through our exploratory essay and research paper. We were taught to provide citations as reference if any quotation/ideas were taken from other sources. Also, Professor Rogal gives us many guiding sources for citing sources appropriately in our paper and work cited page.
Another learning outcome is to develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process. In this class, the most important learning outcomes are peer-review. We did this in our three essays. Throughout this work, these comments are tremendously helping me to fix my essay body properly. I had trouble with my exploratory essay. When I get my peer-review comments, then I can quickly solve those problems. Also, Professor Rogal allows us to submit all of those papers as a first draft before submitting the final draft. She added her comments in our first draft; those comments are helping me to make my essay correctly.
Another learning outcome is found sources in using library database and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, and bios. For our better understanding, Professor Rogal arrange our class in the library’s student training center. That’s how we were taught how to use the CCNY database. This class helps a lot to find similar subject as reference.
After this writing, we had written an annotated bibliography essay. In this paper, we described the citation that are we used in our previous essay. Also cited those source in proper MLA format. We also mention the source that we are planning to use in our research paper.
After this paper, we had done our critical analysis research paper. In this paper, we also create a question or statement beginning in the paper as an exploratory essay. However, throughout this paper, we have to add supporting data and doing some critical analysis that makes argument durable. Also, we have to mention the point as a writer why we agree or disagree about this argument.
The last learning outcome throughout this subject is finding a proper quote or proper drafting. In an Exploratory essay and critical research paper throughout two of those papers, we have to create our argument at the beginning of the article and prove that argument through our writing. For this reason, we have to decide proper quotes or sources; this is related to our discussion and adequately use those sources in our paper. I completed this learning outcome because I wrote my exploratory essay and research paper. Throughout two of these papers, I was using sources and quote, added those in the proper place in my writing. These precedent helped me to make my paper stronger.
I would like to conclude my self-assessment with Thanking Professor Rogal. I’ve learned the techniques and writing skills which will be supportive for my next academic carrier. Throughout this successful semester, I’m confident, I’ll be able to write constructive papers in future.