In addition...

In class yesterday we had 10 minutes to blog about the improvements made to our writing and changes made throughout the course. I was thinking since then of some additions I could make.

Another aspect of improvement made to my writing resulting from the course has also been integrating skills from the course. Most importantly, forming precise bullet proof arguments and proposals. One can practice writing a lot and effectively become a good writer with great word choice, sentence structure, and overall getting thoughts into writing, however practice is NOT everything, to contradict a commonly used cliche. There are some skills that need to be learned and studied, such as in our 1122 class, how to build and structure effective arguments. This is definitely one important aspect of the course in which I improved my writing. The class discussions and overall, just all the information about writing and making such arguments and proposals was very beneficial to my writing. I find this to be because no matter how much I practice writing, good writing is not necessarily a good argument and vice versa. I realized that both are definitely good skills to have and both compliment each other to form the ideal work. One can have a great argument but not be able to communicate it very well through writing which in turn doesn't quite get that argument out there in the way it needs to be or make it very credible. Then again, one could also be great at words but have an a poorly structured argument that doesn't make much sense and that will also be ineffective. Most definitely the practice writing and the skills learned in the class discussions go hand in hand and this is what ultimately has helped me noticeably improve my writing throughout the course.