Reflective analysis - Essay Example

Jenny Reflective Writing: A Reflection on My Success Everyone learns something new as he/she participates in and associates with a learning environment. There are numerous aims that we strive to achieve form every course and step we take. I hoped to develop my writing skills and excel the use of proper grammar and language mechanics after completing this course. The course developed me as a person by improving my communication skills. The evidence of my written communication development and growth can be provided by my ability to identify the mistakes I made in my earliest essays and assignments during the course.

I believe that this ability to identify one’s mistakes, learning perfection and the ability to rectify them rather than ignoring the fact of being imperfect, makes me a better person and professional having the ability to improve with every step and instance.The learning outcome I really wanted to pursue is the development of “understanding that grammatical and mechanical errors detract from achieving their communication purposes”. The grammatical mistakes I made in my earlier writings made the content I wrote awkward and confusing for the reader.

For instance, the use of punctuation could make this sentence taken from my January 18 submission, better by replacing “These celebrities all have thousands if not millions of followers on their social media profiles” with “These celebrities all have thousands, if not millions, of followers on their social media profiles”. Similarly, a sentence in my January 15 submission read “I think Toulmin model is the most effective for the evaluative rhetorical analysis I am composing, because my theis is "drug free"”; here the word ‘theis’ makes the reader confused and perplexed as to the meaning of it.

The correction needed here was with the spelling of ‘thesis’ and it makes the entire message clear for the reader with proper sense.At times, wrong use of writing structures and mechanics make the work incomprehensible for the reader. I have learnt it from a review of my submissions during the course. For instance, my January 21 submission includes that “Everyone has one partner, then we read draft each other to find somewhere need to improve, like grammar, etc. ,I think this is a great method for revise draft.

” The sentence could make more sense and deliver better meanings by an amendment in the structure and formation of it. It could have been better to say “Everyone has a partner to work with. After writing the draft, we read each other’s work to identify areas for improvement like in grammar and punctuation; I think it is a great method for revising the drafts.”In addition to this, I could not even make my point clear at times due to mistakes. For example, the March 10th submission reads “From the above Statistic: Chinese student believe that unemployment is a serious problem.

” The sentence confuses if the statistical data was measured for one student who ‘believes’ that unemployment is a serious problem or is it about general Chinese students who ‘believe’ that. The inconsistency of tense here does not deliver the message properly to the reader. In conclusion, I can affirm that although I have not achieved perfection but I have improved a lot after completing this course. I have seen enormous changes in my writing style, use of punctuation marks and have developed the ability to make improvements by admitting to my mistakes.

I have learnt to develop and grow skills. I no longer rely on others to proofread but rather believe in learning on my own.