As Benjamin Franklin once said, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”, I can truly say that after taking this class I have gained that interest. Through each assignment in this class, I gained a piece of the puzzle and after the completion of this class I can truly say that I have a very beautiful piece of art in front of me. Whether it was short essays or longer assignments I enjoyed each moment and tried to gain something from each of them. The process of this class has been unique, and the journey is one to definitely write about.

            When I first came into this class I was more so on the scared side because I felt that this would be a class that I wouldn’t enjoy and then end up really shrugging my way through. However, once I was told in detail about our first assignment, I knew this would be a very interesting class. The one thing I really loved about the class is the fact that nothing you do in this class is not related to what you will do coming up. So, what I mean by that is literally each assignment piggy backs the other. After being done with this class I realize how nicely I was able to understand everything due to this factor. Usually, a lot of writing classes are all over the place and you go from one topic to the other but in this class we didn’t.  

            Throughout this course many course learning outcomes were set for us and while going through them I was really surprised as to how nicely each of them fit with what I gained in this class. The first and very important thing that I hadn’t learned for years was being able to learn now was to read, draft, revise, edit, and self-assess my own work. When I first started writing the messy draft of my rhetorical analysis paper, I remember getting feedback from the professor stating, “I really like how you take the time to discuss and think about the complexities of how each of the rhetorical terms applies to your article. This leads you to writing an essay that is nuanced and interesting but will inevitably be longer than the assigned length of 750-1000 words. I think you can cut back on what you have already written and write less…” When receiving this I knew that I clearly needed a lot of work on this final draft, but I would have never known this if there was no messy draft aspect to this class. Now having that made me learn the process of editing and revising and I was able to cut out so much for my final draft of the Rhetorical analysis paper. For example, my paragraph for the element of audience was so long but in my final, I only had a few sentences that went straight to the point. My final draft stated, “Now we might have understood Tripp’s purpose of writing this article but who is her intended audience. Through her choice of words, you can clearly notice that her audience is the science community.” You can clearly see how nicely I was able to bring up the topic of audience and then go right into talking about it without wasting the word limit I have. The process of reading, drafting, revising, editing and then self-assessing and knowing that okay I fixed this and it made my writing stronger made me get a grade that I was happy with for this assignment.

            Now to address my engagement in genre analysis and multimodal composing to explore effective writing across disciplinary contexts and beyond to include public audiences I think it is best that we look at my group project of public awareness campaign. In this assignment you can see that I accomplished this course learning outcome because as a group we were able to make 4 different elements which were infographic, google slides presentation, podcast, and social media to showcase that my writing was able to bring attention points from all sides of the table. Now what I mean by that is for example our infographic has straight up information without going into depth for people that always in a “rush” and just want to see quickly visually what I am saying. To visually please them I put in pictures such as the earth melting and included bullet points such as “Can we adopt”, “What is our time limit”, and “Funding”. All of these helped people that visually take information just in a fast manner. Now to really talk about my favorite part of this class I would love to say that the people you meet in college might be very little but the engagement and social structure they provide you is beautiful. From this class I have learned so much about my writing and made so many friends while doing so. Now you may wonder well how do you get introduced to each other? Well, the best answer to that would be when we read each other’s paper and provide peer review. For example, for my Literature paper I had received feedback from a classmates who stated, “..there is definitely a research question here, but it seems to be a little odd and not exactly “clear”. It looks as if you have 3 articles all related to the question. The paragraphs do seem to be organized around ideas and relate to the question but are rather large. You have definitely backed up findings with evidence, examples, and quotations. You synthesize at the end of the article in your conclusion section and provide both sides to the point. This essay needs a little editing with a couple missing particles I noticed.” Getting this comment and feedback from a classmate allowed me to really know that okay I know the main idea of what I am supposed to write I just need to better put it out. From conversations and comments like these under your work you begin to have bonds with people because they genuinely gave you these comments to help you succeed. Best part is you get to return the favor and give them feedback. For example, on the rhetorical analysis paper I advised one of my classmates by stating, “Even though your paper was amazing there are few things I recommend you change…… One of them being try to get rid of any extra information because I think it will land you to be over the required paper amount.” The element of good but fix this helped us politely tell our classmates that we love their paper but he’s how you can add more or fix it.

            Writing in this class can be fun do the fact that you get to write about topics that are meaningful to you. For example, being very intrigued about leaving space and what life is like outside the planet really made all the writing in my campaign very meaningful to me. Overall, this semester was a very hard and harsh time for students like me due to the shift to online learning and for our case having to shift back in person. At first, we really had to adjust to online learning and honestly for me I got way to comfortable with it. However, the shift back was a wakeup call to not get lazy and stay motivated for my end goal.

            In conclusion, I can honestly say that this was an amazing and fun class to take, and I am so glad to have taken it. I learned so much and if you are looking for the best class to take at CCNY then that would definitely be writing for sciences with my favorite professor, Benjamin Swett.