My learning curve in technical writing assignments has had both strong and weak points .This has given me more confidence in my writing because I was able to analyze these in my classmates work, and well as in my classmates peer reviews of my work.

The assignments where I completed my best work and received better marks was during my peer reviews and unit reflections. This makes total sense to me because these are the areas where I felt the most passionate, and in turn I was able to create meaningful peer reviews and reflections for my classmates.Truly, I have never found a more effective learning process in my years as a student and I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to learn this about myself. I felt I gained the most value while completing my memorandums and business letters because I recognize the value of communication in business and life. These seemingly small portions of your career I believe can have the greatest impact, and though I had to improve upon these with each assignment, I believe that my understanding of my audience has improved tenfold. The LinkedIn portion of the course was increasingly important to me than memos and business letters because it is a modern and practical application to use the skills developed in this course; not to mention that it was the most fun. I learning quickly how to market myself and choose the correct audience to showcase what I can bring to the table. Lastly, although I do not know my mark, my web folio has proven to be a medium for my career that I did not know would be so valuable. At first I didn’t understand why a “web folio” would be appropriate for my career, but after having the finished product in front of me, did I see what a great, cohesive product it could be for my career and future employers. The web folio creation process made me expand my skill set by creating a greater online presence and marketability; something I seemed really scary at the start of the course.

The areas of ENGL 301 where my learning process took longer to more time to develop fully was during my causal report writing process. Luckily, I picked a topic that I am very passionate about and it was much easier to present a finished product that I was proud of. This speaks to the practicality of the assignment; had it not been for our ability to pick our own “career” driven report topic, I feel that I would have struggled more to achieve my desired result. Secondly, historically I have had good attention to detail in my works, but for ENGL 301 these abilities were put to the test. I needed to be extremely diligent in creating products that were without error, in terms of grammar, structure, audience, tone, and attitude. My writing ability is great when I need it to teach a concept, but to make the assignment easy for the reader, that was something that I really had to work on.

I have learned a ton of skills from my own writing and especially from my classmates’ peer reviews of my work; these strengths will continue to support me in my career in roles such as a Sustainability Analyst. Being able to reflect effectively on your work is very important to grow and keep learning. The memorandum’s, as well as business letters in this course have been invaluable; they have helped give me a solid background to create correspondence for specific audiences. Our work on LinkedIn has given a practical platform to express my career. Working on my ability to create formal reports helped me gain more experience completing research and writing about topics that are important to me. This is an area that I truly struggle with and it allowed me to brake many barriers. Being able to distinguish writing with you attitude, I believe, is something that I would not have figured out for a long time and I am very thankful for having the opportunity to learn it now. This will support my career by giving my contacts an increased ability to respond and they will be more engaged in my writing. The opportunity to peer review my classmates work benefited my work tenfold; I am going to continue this habit into my career so that I can increase my abilities faster. Lastly, my web folio project brought everything together, organizing my professional life I like never imagined so I can keep improving upon this in the future.