Learning Outcome 1

There have been improvements that I’ve seen and made in my writing, throughout the three writing projects that we had in English 110. The revision process was a lot different than what I was used to in high school. I focused more on global concerns such as organization, transitions, producing a strong thesis statement and topic sentences, and inserting sources appropriately. In high school, the revision process of writing papers was more focused on local concerns like grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. However, English 110 taught me to prioritize global concerns during revision rather than local concern, so that it strengthens my writing capabilities and produce a solid, final draft. Paper 3 showed the most improvements from the first draft to the last. I wanted to make sure that paper 3 incorporates all of the techniques that I’ve learned from this class and ended the semester with a good paper. As I look back into the first draft versus the last draft of paper 3, it shows a clear difference and the changes that I’ve made. Once I developed a clear thesis statement, showing where my stance is on the situation, I was able to provide nice transitions from one paragraph to the next so that everything flows correctly. Another global concern that I focused on during revising paper 3 was the way I use the sources to support my ideas. I focused more on connecting the three sources that I used to make sure that they all connect with each other to support, not only the paragraph but the whole paper as well. Paper 3 shows the development of my writing from the first to the final draft but also from the beginning of the class to now. I was able to focus on global concerns more on my paper rather than local concerns, even though both are as important.