Prompt: Select one learning objective or one component of a learning objective. How have you learned it? How have you developed in this arena so far this semester?

One learning objective I’ve had was bettering my organizational skills. Throughout my last year of high school I’ve formed bad habits at it relates to keeping track of my work and assignments. Throughout this semester I’ve greatly improved my skills as it relates to my academics. I’ve utilized assignment lists, study schedules, and other good habits to improve as a student. My biggest motivator for doing this is to eventually have my hard work pay off and gain a good career out of it.

Prompt: Annotate one article you plan to use in your research. Share what kind of information you wrote in your annotations. Did annotating help you? If yes, how? If no, why not? What else do you need to do to process this article?

The topic I’m researching for my essay is how systemic racism affects child development. The article I annotated involves the disparities that African Americans experience as it relates to early education and childcare. Annotating the article really helped me better understand what I was reading and better informed me on the topic I was researching. Looking up words or phrases also helped me better process the article.

Prompt: Analyze the rhetorical situation of your Learning Analysis. Introduce your essay’s genre, purpose, audience, and context, and reflect on the extent to which you achieved the learning goals of the assignment as well as any goals you set for yourself.

My Learning Analysis Essay is a self-reflection essay based on the ways I learn. The purpose of writing it is for both myself and others to better understand me and to share my experiences. My audience is for people who are near my age and can relate to my experiences. I believed I achieved the goals I set for myself while also meeting the learning requirements of the assignment as well as I could have and have greatly improved my writing skills.

Prompt: What have we done so far that has been helpful to your writing process? How might you apply this helpful information or tool? What has been confusing or what would you like to spend more time on? If the clarification/additional focus does not occur during class time, how will you acquire the knowledge?

What has been helpful to me and aided my writing process is splitting up the work into steps rather than just getting everything done at once and forgetting about it. Splitting the work up and using outlines and rough drafts have helped me do my best work. What has been challenging with this though is creating outlines with a limited amount of information and ideas, but once I get past that obstacle it makes the writing process much easier.