We have four major assignments in this semester, which are letter of introduction, technical description, proposal, and lab report analysis. All of them are not like an essay form because we need to add our design to them. We always consider not only the writer’s goal of their work but also the feels of audiences. Last but not least, we need to write a self-reflection for each of these assignments except the letter of introduction base on the course learning outcomes.

I wouldn’t care about what kind of my audiences are, and all I want to do is to complete my work. That’s what I always do in the past. However, after I have done these works, I realized that at least I will use the most straightforward words or put a parenthetic definition for every hard term to help audiences to understand. For my very first assignment, which is the technical description, I learned for my self-reflection were to remove unnecessary phrases as well as replace the hard terms with easy words. After I finished my final assignment, which is the proposal, I learned that for some inevitable terms, I have to use the parenthetic definition instead of replacing the word. Therefore, I learned something for every assignment, and it will be great feedback to put them together after all. However, I still can’t determine what kind of audience I confront; That’s the aspect I should work on in the future.

I always put enhance strategies as my primary method to improve my works because I learned this in every English class I have taken. I am not with the self-assessment, but I think it’s constructive because I can learn how I did on my work and try to improve it. I used all the strategies for my major assignments except the self-assessment for my letter introduction. Since I did reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment for every task, there is no visible promotion.

I don’t have any improvement in the audience expectations of genre, medium, and rhetorical situation for all of my assignments because I don’t consider that much. What I always do is to follow the rubric and pick a topic that I interested in. In other words, if I think my paper is good, I don’t care about the others. However, It might be a new thing for me to figure out what the audience expects.

The technical description and the lab report analysis are personal writing tasks and the teamwork for the proposal. I like the collaborative works because it is fun and better than individual works. However, I think working independently is freer because I don’t have to find a time everybody is free.

The multimodal composing is an excellent way to decorate my paper, and I use it for my technical description and proposal. The genre analysis also helps me to compare and contrast the similar samples in terms of their purpose; I used it for all of my major assignments except the letter introduction. I think not every work need both genre analysis and multimodal composing because the format and standard of each task are different.

For every essay or paper, we all have different stance depends on what kind of writing is. In the letter of introduction, my position is the person in the letter because it is my experiences and life. For the proposal assignment, my stance is a persuader, who is going to prove the advantages of their product. Therefore, I learned that we need to articulate and formulate the stance before we start writing our paper.

The internet and the databases are a significant source place for me to find useful samples. I found two research papers for my lab report analysis, one research paper for my proposal on the database, and several websites for my technical description. I am lack of using library resources because I think the internet is more convenient. However, it can’t be denied that the library is also an excellent resource point.

All I use to strengthen my source are quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, analyzing, and citing sources. I used them often on my lab report analysis paper because the main structure of the article was to compare and contrast two samples I found on the database base on the eight elements. The sources are essential for all my major assignments except letter introduction. The two practices I learned at the end of the semester are quoting and citing sources because both are tricky sometimes. For example, I might find a reference without the name of the author or the date; then it will be hard to cite it. Now, I learned how to use these practices, but I should get used to it for further research papers.

This class gives me a good promotion on my writing skill and helps me to develop a good research paper.