Sarah Miller

Professor Pastore

English Composition

10 December 2022

I managed to locate proper sources for my articles as you can see in my Exploratory Essay and my Research Critical Analysis essay. This was a struggle, it took a lot of time and effort to find them, but when I reached the RCA, I found it to be a little easier than the first essay because I was a little more experienced. You can find the sources I cited in both my Exploratory and RCA essay.

I developed and engaged in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes by having classmates revise my work and revise their work. They looked it over and gave critiques and tips to have a better paper. I also joined a writing center workshop to improve my writing skills. You can see my first draft versus last draft to see how I improved.

I developed strategies for reading, drafting, revising, and editing by learning what techniques work for me. For example, when reading an article, I would read the abstract and then skim through the first, middle, and end of the article to see if it could be helpful for my paper. When drafting, as you can see on my first draft of my essays, I wrote whatever immediately came to my mind without too much concern, so I did not stress too much and then be able to grow and write a better paper. I revised by carefully looking at sentence structure, word usage, and anything else I got criticism for or saw flaws while reading my own work.