Reflection

This semester, I have learned how to write many different types of ways to accommodate a  multitude of prompt types. This has proved increasingly helpful because the nature of the writing I will be doing from here on, will require me to be able to differentiate between the way to write a profile and the way to write a rhetorical analysis. Through our 14 writing projects, we have seen various types of writings as well as plenty of different ways to write to them. The importance of being able to write a certain way will help to guarantee success, because you will be able to not only deliver the content that is being asked for efficiently, but your writing style will also be recognized as that of someone who is confident and knows what they are doing, just due to the organization and presentation of the information.

I believe that learning about the different things to write to and about is incredibly beneficial because it helps you to be clear and to the point when you need to, while also including enough support and description where it is needed, without wasting words. Also, a five paragraph essay, which we learned how to do in middle and high school, will not suffice for most of the writing types we are presented with, so it is important that we learn the appropriate structures in order to write an effective paper. Without this, it will be very hard to prove ourselves in the professional world as someone who clearly knows how to communicate their ideas through written work.

No one wants to look like they don’t know what they’re doing, especially when it could decide whether or not you get a job or scholarship or what grade you’re going to get for the semester, so learning to distinguish between how to write a lab report and a cover letter and everything in between is very important. Not only is the specific content different, but also the structure and writing style, which can make or break a paper. If you’re writing a lab report, but you’re using excessive detail and sources such as Wikipedia and social networks, you will fail because of the way you are presenting the information you have discovered. You may have done extensive research and the content can all be there, but if you don’t present the information in the correct way, your entire paper can be discredited before it is even entirely read through.