Week 2 Reflection

Just last semester I took a 10100 English course where I had to write a outline for every big paper we wrote. In these outlines included a bit of reflections on what we learned or what we struggled with during that phase(period where we had to write that big paper). Additionally we wrote a self-reflection essay for a final at the end of the semester which was basically all of our outlines revised to fit our current opinions on what we wrote, as well as what we accomplished that semester. Despite this I’m not particularly sure what I gained from writing these reflections. This practice in my opinion didn’t really make it easier, however I think other things I learned over the course of that semester improved my ability to write reflections. For instance my increased understanding of rhetorical devices helps me better understand things that I see in my own writing and conversely things I saw that I could’ve done but didn’t. This I believe made the content of my reflections a little bit more objective overall as I could understand better what I am supposed to be doing.