This learning outcome is focused on the recursive writing process. I will be using my prompt two rough and final drafts as examples. Here is my rough draft from prompt 2:
And here is my final draft from prompt 2:
The recursive process is the ideology that writing can always be better. In high school, we focused on this, but never had a format that came along with it. In this class, we did. That changed my perception on recursive writing as it gave me a path to follow, certain aspects in the writing to look for. For my pre-writing strategy, I collected my thoughts into an outline then just started typing. Reading my work aloud also helped me with connecting ideas more fluently. Feedback from both Professor Spain and peers was helpful as it gave me insight into what could be wrong that I wasn’t noticing. An example of this is my second paragraph on page three of my rough draft. I completely took Dalai Lama’s words out of context and created an idea that made sense to myself, but didn’t connect to the evidence of Lama’s words. Professor Spain’s feedback gave me this insight and I was able to fix it in my final draft, replacing it with the first paragraph that appears in page 3 of my final. The main global challenge I faced was focus. This was present a little bit in my thesis, but mostly in the superhuman soldier paragraph from my rough draft. The focus didn’t match Lama’s words, so I replaced it. My main local challenge was citation. All of my citations were good except one in the final draft. Instead of having “Why are scientists” as my source in parentheses, I typed “The Week 13” in the first line of page five. To add on to that, my works cited page was also messed up. But overall, my writing has improved as I’ve gotten used to utilizing the special formats given (TRIAC, BARCLAYS), they helped guide me through my ideas. To conclude, I will provide my self-assessment from after this prompt right here.
