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Tuesday, May 20

Prof Reema Rao 

       My Self-Assessment Essay 

While taking this course, I am glad to say that compared to how other writing classes went, I have improved a lot more. I feel as though not only did my writing skills improve, but also my overall understanding of the topics that were chosen. I do feel as though I still have lots of room to improve. While taking the class, I’ve been much more proactive with the group work and also using the feedback I was given to the best of my abilities. Something I could say is that towards the start and middle I have been at my best but towards the end specifically essay #3 I saw a decline in my writing skills that’s due to my lack of knowing how to write an argument of something while speaking too much on other things or trying to stay away from outside sources. I will be writing about the 3 essays we wrote this semester and how I felt through each one.

During my First essay, I felt nervous, and it was mainly because it was a partner-type paper, and when it comes to projects like this, I always and usually fall flat because of a lack of communication and timing of when we can do the work we need to do to get the work done. However, during this paper, I was able to improve a lot in terms of understanding those outside of my understanding, and also I was able to change up my writing by mentioning things that I wouldn’t understand, but my partner did so it helped me not only open up my mind more but it also better understand peoples feeling’s on certain things when I wouldn’t necessarily see anything wrong. It was also a big struggle with the process in terms of the types of questions I needed to ask because I felt most questions were either repetitive or also felt as though I missed the mark on questions I could’ve asked, which could’ve further strengthened my paper. When it came down to the draft part of this assignment, I felt as though I got most of the important ideas down; however, something that had failed me was my spelling and grammar choice’s which I then realized I should’ve made sure things were more perfect from the start. Which means that after that, I thought of ways I could’ve done better, which was re-reading my draft before submitting and even making sure spelling was correct, but overall, I thought the assignment went well.

For my second major assignment, it was a field observation type of assignment, meaning I chose the Community I was going to be observing and also why I chose to observe them. Throughout this assignment, I felt at ease because it community that I was familiar with since I’m usually always a part of the community, but what I didn’t realize was that it was further from the truth. Going into I was expecting for most of the community to kind of share similar beliefs of the fact that COD Is just a “Game” and anything said in the game shouldn’t being taken to heart because a major aspect of said game is dedicated to the trash talk you can do but then I saw that, there’s a select few out there that don’t see it that way and it helped open my eyes by making myself think stuff liek “ do i cause of any of these issues”, “ Do my friends Also feel this way?” This helped me change how I was going into this assignment, cause now I knew that there were major aspects that I was overlooking. For example, in a Reddit post that I had found in the Call of Duty Warzone Reddit, it talked about how women were treated, and most of the things that were said made me feel like Wow, I never realized. 

For my last essay, it was the literature review, and it was my hardest assignment to do. I think the reason it was so hard is not because of the topic, because the topic I chose is something I knew a good amount about. The reason that made it difficult is because I was struggling with not using my voicebut what I learned, and I feel like that’s what got in the way of everything. I feel as though when I rewrote it, I pretty much got what was intended, but just needed a few more edits to make sure it was the best it possibly could, and I hope I was able to achieve that.