Right off the bat I’d like to just say that the habits and experiences from “Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing” are honestly really essential for not just postsecondary writing but in general as well. Although I haven’t been able to fully experience college-level writing as I’ve only begun, I think many if not all these habits are truly essential for any type of writing. For example curiosity, you need to be curious to give yourself that first boost of desire to learn. Without that boost your attention and desire to learn wanes. You pay less and less attention and you won’t absorb the information you learn as easily as when you truly have the desire to learn. Thus with curiosity at the reigns, engagement follows. The stronger your curiosity for the world is, the more you will naturally keep yourself engaged. The other habits mentioned are habits that I feel support this desire to learn. Responsibility adds on to your learning so that you may accept and understand when you’ve made a mistake. Thus being able to learn and improve upon such a mistake. Metacognition as well goes along the lines of responsibility. Since responsibility speaks about accepting your own mistakes, metacognition also speaks in terms of the self. Specifically in the department of reflecting on one’s own thinking.
Some of these habits I’ve already practiced, some only recently while others since more childhood. For example metacognition; although I haven’t practiced it to get better in writing specifically, I naturally practiced it to learn to reflect on my decisions and self. If I made a mistake I would naturally think about my involvement in the mistake and all the littlest of details about the situation. After thinking it over I would then accept responsibility for my actions if I had concluded that I myself had committed the most wrong in that situation. Other situations were when I had tried to make myself curious in wanting to learn something. Honestly, at first it was an attempt to stop falling asleep in history class. I had wanted to try to make myself more curious about history by trying to learn interesting facts about history to try and gain some interest. It half worked for me. I still find history atrociously boring, but at least not to the point where I’ll fall asleep in class or even while reading that awfully boring textbook. I reached a point where my curiosity to learn history will at least allow me retain information easier.
Which brings up the last question, where these habits really do help in my education. After increasing my curiosity to certain subjects I feel as though I retain a majority of the knowledge. I mostly think its because I hold this desire to learn more about the world that my brain will feel more compelled to retain the information. Honestly, I feel like curiosity is just such an essential habit to train because of how effective it is. It allows you develop goals that you can accomplish because you naturally feel compelled to accomplish said goal to learn more.