Prompt:
Now that you’ve finished a semester of academic writing in RWS , I want you to tell me how you’ve grown as a writer and scholar.
You’ll be telling me a story, but you’ll be making specific points along the way. This should be written in paragraph form, with an introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, and a conclusion, as you tell me about your journey this semester.
You get to pick the topics you discuss (I’ll list some suggestions below). You can use any tone or diction you would like (formal, academic, conversational, humorous, etc.). You don’t have to cite anything in particular, but you should discuss specific instances, from your work, writing, or research that showcases the things you’re discussing.
You can also speculate on how the writing skills you’ve developed in this class will be utilized in your academic and professional careers to come.
Possible Topics:
• How outlining helped your writing
• How you learned to craft a specific thesis statement.
• How you learned to analyze texts with rhetorical tools
• Study habits you improved upon.
• The evolution of your writing from paper one to three.
• Struggles with academic writing, or research, you overcame (figured out).
• How you overcame the evil beast known as MLA citations and formatting.
• How taking advantage of seeing a tutor, fellow, or professor helped your writing.
• How you learned to use rhetorical tools to argue your own points.
ANSWER:
Throughout the semester of academic writing, I have learned a lot about writing and reading. For a long time, I took writing for granted until the end of the semester, where I have learned the value of writing. Writing is an art, and it comes through putting more effort and reading a lot. The paper will discuss how I have grown as a writer and scholar in the last semester of writing.
One of the most important things I learned is how to structure a paper before beginning to write it. It’s important to have an outline, especially when writing a persuasive and argumentative essay. Outlining helps a writer to have a clear outline of how to structure a paper. It will have sections and sub-sections depending on the topic of discussion. An outline enables the writer to organize the work into main points and organize paragraphs in a way they…. To continue reading, click on the button below.