Learning Outcome 1: 

When I revisited my earlier work, I realized that I was hesitant to taking in actual criticism on my writing because I had always felt that letting people see my work, that I’d lose my own voice, but fortunately I have learned to take the constructive criticism while still maintaining my own ideas and voice. I believe the biggest change in my revision process globally and locally come from Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s book called, They Say I Say. Especially for when I need to fill in support or just making my paper sound stronger, I’ll look through the book as a reference for different ways to say certain things or create better sentence structures. For example, if I am stuck and catching writer’s block, I use a naysayer because it will help me to look at my topic from a different perspective. The Naysayer. From this perspective, it not only helps me reach the desired length, but also helps me build a well-balanced paper where I am not neglecting the flaws in my argument but acknowledging them and explaining why I believe it is the reason it is. As I started to pick up on the pattern in which we were discussing the material in the class, it took time, but I found a certain way to format the papers, so that it would flow well. The way that worked best for me when laying out my paragraphs were finding my sources that I wanted to relate back to the main topic’s argument and then quoting the source and supporting it. I also would implement how I felt being a college student and what my views were on the topic and its arguments. Ultimately after the conferences with you and my peer reviews, I changed mostly through how I how formatted my papers and how to make my paper better by using different perspectives to mold my own.