Reflection On Learning Through Reflection

Learning Through Reflection During this semester, I finished three main essays. They are the summary and response, rhetorical analysis and argumentative essays. In general, I think I have improved in many aspects within my professor’s help. In high school, students were only required to write 120 words for an essay, but in college, we are normally required to write at least a thousand words for an essay. At first, I had no idea how to just finish it, and just reach the word count, but now, I am not troubled by such feelings since I have mastered the effective use of sentence length, organization, transition words, and some other skills. In this way, I feel my writing ability has reached a new level. Even so, I still have much to do like …show more content…
At the beginning, I had almost no idea about this one, because I had never seen it or heard of it before. It seemed a completely new challenge in front of me, which forced me to study a series of new concepts like rhetorical devices. I think they are quite helpful because they can not only be used in rhetorical analysis, but also in many other aspects, for instance, oral presentations. Since I put much effort and energy in revising it over and over again, my word choice and grammar became better meanwhile. Consequently, I was satisfied with my final draft. In this way, I felt that I was becoming a stronger writer with improvement of writing ability and growing …show more content…
Related to the personality I took before, it said that I had a low level of extraversion. Indeed, I think I am an introvert person. I enjoyed time alone and thinking alone. Moreover, I insisted on listening to news every day, which also helped to develop my critical thinking. As for organization, I always followed my teacher’s instruction, so it was not too difficult to make a clear outline. Referring to weaknesses, I think my weaknesses are applying complex sentence structure and vocabulary. Since I used simple clauses too often, it was hard to make progress by just writing as much as possible. Therefore, I intended to read more long sentences, and analyze their structure deeply. Also, I tried to translate long sentences. As for vocabulary, I have made progress although there was still a long way to go. According to the personality test, it said I was willing to deal with tough times and had a strong resolve. Exactly, I strongly believe I will be better through working on my