In writing this paper, my goals were to write with in-depth knowledge of my topic. My topic is actually relevant to me and I care about it, so I naturally wanted to learn more about it. I believe that I have reached my goals in learning about the topic and writing with the knowledge that I have gathered. I will continue to learn as I prepare for my multimodal project. As I progress in this career field, I will never run out of things to learn. A lot of my time in developing this paper was used on the assignments leading up to the third step (final paper). All of the assignments before this one were great for preparing me for this paper. By the time I wrote the final step in my inquiry project, I was so well prepared that it was more of a revision than writing a paper. I think that with each step: the research proposal, the annotated bibliography, and the first two JTC steps my writing improved a little bit each time. Not only did my writing improve a lot with this paper, but it has improved overall throughout the class. Last night, I went back and revised the first paper that I wrote in this class, the Writing History Response. As I was reading it, I was impressed with how I have improved. Obviously, I haven’t become a fabulous writer in four months, but I am one step closer to it. I took great advantage of my peers’ feedback on my drafts. When I wrote the next step, I had the last draft and the peer comments next to each other; they came in very handy in helping me to improve. My inquiry group contributed to my success quite a bit because they gave me great feedback with each draft. While writing this paper, and in the whole class in general, I have learned a lot about my ability to improve my writing. The hardest part about writing this paper was to include every point of view of all the authors that I used as sources. Once I would start writing, I would pick a side that I agreed with and start to leave out the other arguments. I had to stop myself and include everything. The easiest thing about writing this paper was the topic. I thoroughly enjoyed the topic, therefore, I was excited to learn and write about it. One of the main things about my paper that still needs improvement is the cohesive, flowing, easy-to-read aspect of it. I can work on that by trying to tie all the viewpoints together and come up with one view that includes both sides of the argument spectrum. I didn’t work very hard to fix this aspect of my paper yet, I was more focused on other things, such as, including all views, grammar, and writing outside of the box.
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