"Good learners, like everyone else, are living, squirming, questioning, perceiving, fearing, loving, and languaging nervous systems, but they are good learners precisely because they believe and do certain things that less effective learners do not believe and do." -Postman and Weingartner (31)
Midterm reflection with strong, concrete examples of progress in researching.
Looking back to the beginning of the semester from where I am now, I realize that I have come quite a long way. Before starting the course I did not believe my writing would improve at all; I thought this class would just be an extremely time consuming inconvenience but I was clearly wrong. The class is very integrative, captivating and extremely helpful in my development. New areas are explored through thorough explanation, examples and practice. This is what I appreciate the most about the class; I feel like for the first time, the instructor actually cares about the performance and the development of their students.
Thus far I’ve had experience with different genres of writing. I have wrote personal essays where the writing was more relaxed and informal to really give the reader an idea of who I am. Through my I-search paper I have seen the most development…
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