Caption: This assignment shaped my original thoughts about this course and some discussions on my weakness and strength with my previous writing experiences. 

Self-Assessment Reflections

             After one quarter of learning writing 39B, I have learnt what is the meaning of rhetoric, how we could compose our writings rhetorically and a few points related to my course themes. To be considered as a writer, I still have weaknesses, like how to figure out the best way to organize my writing based on its genre and how to read and provide suggestions on revising others’ writings. Since this course would be more focused on collaborating research materials with our own writings, as an international student, I still need to improve my ability on reading faster and locating useful sources for my references.

            On my major perspective which is related to computer science, writing and thinking logically is the main ability I need to focus on since I would need to operate various functions in a giant program for my future career life. Also, as I mentioned in the first paragraph that my weakness is how to connect different paragraphs in my writings together, I still need to practice on how to improve the flow of my writing for audiences to keep track on. However, one strength I have is that it’s easy for me to generate new ideas and key point I want to write for a piece of writing and I’m good at the prewriting process which allows me to throw all my ideas onto the paper. So the problem is always that I have many things to write but I don’t know how to organize them.

            According to my reading ability, since my reading speed is not so fast, I’m not good at doing research which requires me to read lots of papers and then drag out keys points from these papers which related to my own writing. On the other hand, doing research is not only the process for me to find concrete ideas, I also need to fully understand others’ writing in order to paraphrase them into my writings or use them as references. Therefore, I need to read rhetorically and understand some deep meanings behind the paper in order to use them more appropriately. According to the course outcome, I also need to distinguish different types of articles and writing genres which could further help me to understand a piece of writing and drag out useful information.

            All in all, I’m looking forward to get further writing improvements this summer in writing 39C and as I move deeper and deeper on writing, I start to realize the importance of learning writing and how writing is closely related to all professional careers.

Short answers:

Part One: Your Writing

1. My favorite readings are science fiction stories. Reading science fictions could improve my abilities on generating inspirational ideas, and I would like to write topic related to science or technology based materials.
2. I would like to write a list of bullet points to describe my thoughts or the ideas I want to record. For instance, on social media, I would like to share my travelling experiences by listing all the interests I visited chronically. And for my daily dairy, I just write a short paragraph to describe my thoughts or things I finished today.
3. I speak Chinese fluently besides English. Except college assignments, all my other personal writings are written in Chinese.
4. Writing could help me learn new ideas and information since it’s the way to prove that I have truly understand one idea or perspective.
5. I learn the meaning of rhetoric and genre from my previous writing 39B course which rhetoric is related to lots of rhetorical devices and based on my previous course theme I have learnt many conventions for the fairy tale genres.
6. The steps I follow on tackling a writing: prewriting, organize ideas into several paragraphs, and then drafting and revising repeatedly.

Part Two: Our Course Theme

1. I thought this course will be mainly focus on different cultural backgrounds for women globally, especially their social status, educational level and so on.
2. Which particular period are we going to focus on for global women and which key features are we going to learn on women.