Please hit the play button in order to hear what I basically consider my theme song before going on to read my reflective letter. Thank you.

Dear Reader,

So, end of the year, huh? Gotta say, as much as I’ve been looking forward to this I am not ready. At like all. Mainly because of finals (seriously, fuck psychology).

Anyways, back to reflection.

I do think I have learned how to explore and analyze a variety of genres and rhetorical situations. Been doing it for a good portion of my life so, you know. Nothing new. But this class has definitely helped me improve on that. As per strategies, I don’t know if I’ve deveoped anything new. You see, I’ve always just analyzed things paragraph-by-paragraph. I did that for my entire school career and I’ve done that for this class. The closest thing to a strategy I’ve developed is not doing anything last minute.

Practicing systematic applications of citations is a big one. Before this, I never made my own citations for a bibliography and always used a citation generator. But this year was the year that it changed. I started writing my own citations. It’s probably a skill I’ll be taking with me to the future.

I think my writing has grown from high school to now, mainly because I’ve been going over it more. That and because I’ve redone papers multiple times upon receiving feedback on it, a big sign of growth on my behalf. I’ve really changed since high school because of this class and I didn’t even realize until now damn.

I also think I’ve become better at researching. For example, I never knew that putting something in quotes in the search bar will get you those EXACT phrases in that order in the results so that was cool. Also, I got more resources that I didn’t know about (all those databases).

I think this year has been a year of growth. In writing, in timing, in work ethic, in how much I care about citations, etc. I’m going to end my letter with that because saying any more would just feel like word salad and I feel I’ve said enough.

One thing though: I think that this might be the one class I miss.

– Rozario, William