Christian Andrade

The City College of New York

ENGL 21007: Writing for Engineering

Prof. Sara Jacobson

December 20, 2021

Self-Assessment is a process in which you examine yourself in attempt to discover and learn more about yourself. Your likes, dislikes, behaviors, attitudes and habits can be found during this process. You can use the discoveries to your advantage by accepting or changing strengths and weaknesses. I plan on using this course to enhance my personal skills to become a better student and find success in earning my Bachelor of Engineering degree at City College in Electrical Engineering.

This is my self-evaluation paper. I am going to explain how my composing has changed since the primary day of lesson to the final exposition, additionally a few of my qualities and shortcomings as an essayist. Before I selected into ENGL 21007 course, I knew how to type in a paper, but my qualities were restricted. My to begin with and moment expositions were despicably punctuated, had a powerless body structure, and intertwined sentences. Indeed in spite of the fact that I attempted my best but now and then I seem not succeed in getting my point across clearly. I have a numerous shortcomings; one of them is the language obstruction since my to begin with language is Spanish in this manner, at some point it might be troublesome for me to understanding English. I found it very baffling when I have a parcel of spelling issue and confinement of lexicon to precise my thought or feeling correctly. Through this English lesson and individual perusing encounters I have picked up an appreciation for writing and have been able to relate to each involvement by reacting with understanding, sensitivity, and insight. My English made strides significantly through perusing numerous diary sections, papers and novel, and different open course dialogs. I learned numerous unused words, figures of speech, linguistic use structures and expressions in this course. The course bargains with perusing, composing, and instructing how to utilize linguistic use appropriately, my lexicon has certainly expanded. I moreover have picked up the information that redressing each draft brings my paper one step closer to building a well-organized and culminate. My to begin with solid point as an understudy in English course was basically assessing a research or a commentary that we had already examined. I felt that I exceeded expectations the foremost in those assignments since communicating my conclusion on paper at the side critiquing was one of my superior qualities.

The course learning objectives provided a series of checkpoints to keep track of in terms of learning in this class and finding my perception of writing and defining what writing is.

When it comes to achieving the course learning objectives, some were met more than others. For instance, I enhanced strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing and self-assessment to a large extent. The consistent declarations from Professor Sara Jacobson to alter and reexamine my work enormously impacted this learning result. Presently altering, drafting and changing my work has gotten to be a staple much obliged to the rehashed updates. Arranging my claim composing objectives and group of onlookers desires with respect to traditions of class, medium and explanatory circumstance was to some degree met since my composing group of onlookers is more often than not based on the provoke and what point I am attempting to get over. A few of my composing is adaptable to the group of onlookers in terms of understanding my work but now and then I disregard certain group of onlooker’s individuals with my composing fashion. I did a great work of developing and locks in within the social and collaborative perspectives of composing forms by way of my field consider.

I used different library assets, online databases, and the web to find sources suitable to my composing ventures with the CCNY online library for my field consider. I utilized that site to discover sources that upheld my engineering field think about. Prior to taking this class my perception of writing was mixed. I think of people writing papers in school and journals. I haven’t written much unless it’s required but I plan to write more to get my thoughts out and to improve my writing so to that it translates to my schoolwork. Writing to me is a therapeutic activity and skill developed over time with repetition. When your writing is not required via submission your thoughts can freely float around and there isn’t a clock or deadline to worry about.

        Over the semester, my organization skills have increased, and my critical thinking skills have improved for reading. Now, I notice the different styles and themes in stories that make them effective. As a writer, I still have a lot to improve like being more descriptive and elaborating on my ideas, but this class helped my writing advance greatly. I plan to keep practicing writing as well as reading in order to keep developing and enhancing my writing skills. My arrange for self-assessment is that I will proceed to perused and hone my composing exposition aptitudes. Ideally, one day I will accomplish my individual objectives as an author and have way better communication abilities. Also, this semester has enabled me to think critically in terms of reading and define what makes writing unique and useful. The field study greatly influenced the extent of achieving the course learning objectives, but I still have a few to accomplish. All in all, I’ve learned a lot and hope to learn more.

Reference

Markel, M., & Selber, S. (2017). Technical Communication, 12^th Edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s publishing.