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Hayden Giler

Mrs. Thomas
November 31, 2015
UWRIT1102: 017Final Reflection
1.

Choose a song or musical composition that communicates your experience with


writing and UWRT 1102. Consider including a video of the song. Explain your
choice.

The song Fix You by ColdPlay is the song that I would definitely use to describe my writing
during this course. The song title should speak for itself this is just so much fixing for each paper,
never being done always trying to keep fixing it. The part where he says lights will guide you
home is like the TSIS chapters and how they each give a beacon of light on something else that
you could switch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY9b6jgbNyc

2.

If you were to teach this class, what ideas would you emphasis?

I would really emphasize a lot of the same points as Mrs. Thomas has and I would teach a lot
about the TSIS book that we read because they include a lot of the points that are very helpful
when writing. I also would discuss the idea where you look at the paper as though its a dinner
table and you have to decide who they are bringing to the table. I would talk about the different
ways that we read, a lot of times we look at an article and we critique as if we were another

writer but really we should look at it as a reader because that is the way the writer wanted us to
so we could understand it better.

3.

Explain how your understanding of rhetorical knowledge has changed over the course
of the semester using at least three examples from your writing (ex. Did you shift an
assignment to better fit a particular genre like a proposal?).

I would say that my rhetorical knowledge has improved a lot over the semester and that it
has been really helpful at figuring out who Im addressing. It really helped me when I was
going from the proposal to the actual paper because I didnt fully understand the audience
until after the proposal. While I was writing the thesis paper I really had to comb over it to
make sure that the genre stayed on point throughout the paper. Rhetorical knowledge is very
important when it comes to audiences and how to make sure your reader comprehends the
text and doesnt go over there head.

4.

Explain how your critical reading has improved during the semester. (Ex. In what
ways did you read across texts for connections and patterns in your inquiry?)

My critical reading improved a lot because of when we read the book thief, I had already
seen the movie so I knew the storyline but the details and interesting parts that the movie left
out were always cool to find. I also started doing better once I started reading other peoples
inquiry papers and samples that we read in class it really helped me with mine, because I was
having a hard time figuring out the audience to address. Some of the connections that I made

when comparing my paper with other samples was that I should have included more
naysayers but sometimes there arent that many for a situation.

5.

Discuss your composing processes. Ex. Did you conduct additional research while
revising or after consulting a colleague? Provide at least three examples to support
your assertion.

When I went about composing and listening to other peoples revisions and listening to what
everyone else was saying. You really have to sift through some of it to find the stuff you
think would be the most powerful and most fitting for your paper. When working on my
paper someone gave me the idea that I should use a naysayer as doctors who think big
change is needed but the only problem is not many are out on the web. Another issue I ran
into was when I was thinking about altering my topic to show a doctor in a different light but
we ended deciding against that because they werent trusted sources. But any time
someone gave me an idea that seemed like it was fitting then I would research it and then
decide if I could fit it in without it seeming like it came out of nowhere.

6.

Provide at least three examples of your knowledge of conventions (ex. sentence level
changes, MLA citations).

For the Knowledge of conventions, I would say this is probably my toughest topic to get
down just because there are many rules and I write run-ons a bit too much. As far as my
mechanics go I think I was able to punctuate my paper well, but I would say im more verbal
then writing so a lot of times I over think the punctuation. Some of my sentence level

changes I think youll see are in my early draft of my proposal and then if you compare those
with some of the more well written ones in the paper.

7.

Critical Reflection: a) Discuss an example of choices made during a composition. b)


Explain what you think is most important in providing commentary on others work
and receiving commentary on your own. Provide at least three examples of your
nuanced use of commentary in your writing projects.

Many of the choices that I made during the composition were often forks in the path and with
decisions like that its very important to make sure you pick the one that will back your paper
the most. The biggest fork in the road that I encountered was when I had gotten about half
way done with my annotated bibliography. It was to decide if I should alter my topic to go
specifically into detail about one doctor and determine innocence or guilt of the way he has
been portrayed over the last 70 years. Or if I should stick with what I had chosen which was
to bring a group of doctors to the table and figure out what turned them evil. I think when it
comes to providing commentary about someone elses work that the notes you leave should
be very easy to tell what they are attached to and are clear to understand. I would also make
sure that the information you give them will help there topic and give it more room to grow
and find more information from that. As far as receiving a lot of commentary, I didnt get to
much, most of it was grammatical but some was helpful to increasing my knowledge on my
topic. I really think the best way I received commentary on my paper was whenever we
would sign up for times and a more personalized response of things that could be improved
on and things that people thought I should change.

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