English 2150 Blog

In general, I thought this project really showed me how I am as an academic writer and it also helped me really look back into some of my old projects and reflect on how I did them and my journey on just creating my best work. Its something I really do not think about everyday but this project made me think just how well I am as academic writing and how I can improve on things I struggle with. I also really like the way we reflected on an article about academic writing because I believe there is no clear definition to academic writing. The article by Joshua Rothman really gave me a better understanding on academic writing and also how academic writing is supposed to be written. I also liked the way we did a peer review for our drafts because i think getting a piece of writing checked by another classmate is really important to developing the project. Getting feedback from other writers on your own writing is a great way to begin revision, because there were many things that i did not see wrong with my writing but my classmate saw. He helped me better structure my essay so that it was easier to connect things to each other and create a flow for the reader.  The fact that we were using our own piece of writing as a source for academic writing was great because it helped us reflect on writing and it also showed our personal views towards academic writing.