Reflection 1

The first goal in this class is to be able to read and use scholarly texts to support writing

goals. I feel like I met this goal once I did the first major writing assignment. The first writing

assignment consisted of applying terms from readings about Discourse and literacy sponsors to a

community I am part of. Using Gee's and Brandt's text as support, I was able to draw connections

between the concepts they postulated and my own community.

The second goal of the class is to be able to describe and analyze writing processes in

order to adapt them to support goals. I think this was partially met in the second major writing

assignment, as it asked for me to describe my own process and to analyze the effectiveness of it.

However, once I wrote the fourth major writing assignment, this goal was fully met, as I was

able to look at my own process and apply how it would work for a writing prompt that was for a

non-writing class.

The third goal for this course is to learn how to adapt to different types of writing

contexts. I achieved this throughout the whole entire semester with the different writing

assignments I had to do. For some writing assignments, I had to explain things differently

according to the audience. For instance, I had a journal I had to write where I had to explain a

concept of rhetoric to my mother, who is not familiar with anything related to writing studies.

For paper 1, I had to describe a community I am part of in terms of Discourse, which I had to

approach in a different way than I did for paper 2, where I wrote about my own writing process.

For paper 1, I observed my community, whereas for paper 2, I relied on introspection. This

demonstrates how the context of the assignment shaped the context of my response to it.
 The final goal for this class was to consider how social, rhetorical, and technological

contexts shape writing conceptions, processes, rules, and learning. Again, I feel like this was met

throughout the semester as I learned about different concepts and wrote under different

circumstances and scenarios. For each one of the writing prompts I had, major or not, there was a

different rhetorical situation to be addressed in it. I understand that texts shape other texts, and

my writing is not an exception of it. As I have read about different analytics and rhetorical

studies, I have learned how to apply them subconsciously into my writing; whether that's a term I

use more often in my writing or just being more aware of the importance of who I am writing to,

these ideas appear in my writing now. In the first writing assignment I had to note how my

community shaped my writing, and although the specific community I wrote about in that

assignment does not necessarily shape my writing, I believe that this community, the ENC1101

course at UCF with Professor Pierson, definitely does.