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Ethan Thornhill

Professor Caruso

UWRT 1102

24 January 2017

Goal Sticker Project

Writing has always been a love-hate relationship for me;, personally I love to write

especially if it iss a topic I enjoy but also hate to write if it iss a topic that I have no interest in

writing about. Having this type of relationship with writing can make it easy for me to write a

paper but also can make it very difficult for me. Writing a paper about a topic I enjoy gives me

theat extra needed edge and motivation to complete a great paper. Getting Receiving a topic I

dont do not understand or dont do not enjoy makes it difficult to write and my motivation is not

therein turn makes me lack motivation. I realize if I want to be a great writer I have to learn how

to write about topics that I do not necessarily want to write about. Personally, I am confident

with my writing skills but I know I need improvement on writing about topics I dont do not like.

My past writing course was last year at East Carolina University last year;, which we

focused mainly on MLA format and being able to research information and apply it to a paper. T

By taking this class it has helped me in with the process of applying information from citationses

to your a paper. The types of papers I wrote in this class consisted of researching a topic and

expanding on it through applicable research. This strategy has been very helpful for inquiry or

research papers. The types of papers I wrote in this class was mainly researching a topic and

expanding on it through your research. Beyond my writing course at ECU, I wrote a 30-page

project for a competition through an organization called DECA. Writing this project proposal has

helped mature meme mature as a writer asbecause I had to follow very strict guidelines through
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the rubric in addition to completing project deadlinesand make the deadlines for the project. This

project helped me pay more attention to the details in rubrics, which I think is very beneficial.

My current writing process is to startI start my current writing process by planning out

my paper. By planning out my paper I obtainthis gives me an overview of where my information

for each paragraph is going to be located and applied. For each paragraph I label what the focal

pointus is and have create bullet points that explain explaining the main views of the paragraph.

Next, I format the document to the requirements of the rubric so I do notnt lose any crucial

points for due to lack of formatting, and then I type out my paper following the main points from

the bullets. Lastly, I complete the paper and get have a peer to review it;, based uponoff their

comments, I fix whatever is needed and now my paper is completedI then review my paper one

last time with hopes to catch minute mistakes. At this point in the process the paper is finally

complete. .

RBy reading the Student Learning Outcomes this has givenave me a good understanding

on how you canapplicable ways to use the five outcomes in your writing. Each outcome is very

helpful on how you can apply it to helpassists the writer in applying skills that improve your the

writing skills. Throughout the semester, I will follow the learning outcomes because I believe if

you follow it this following them will give you an edge on writing great papersgreat paper

writing throughout the semester. By having this edge it will make me excel throughout this

semester in my writing. For example, Critical Reflection explains that this helps you proof read

the benefits of proof reading your paper andto see what youve has been done well but also what

needs to be improved to make your the paper better. I think that this is very important because

without Critical Reflection you would be turning papers in with nopapers would be submitted

without revisions, and the majority of papers need to be revised in some type of way.
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Throughout this semester I am going to follow three goals that I hope to achieve by the

end of the course. The first goal is bBe better at writing about topics you dislike.. I chose this

goal because I often have trouble writing about topics I have no interest in but I know throughout

my college career I will be writing about topics I dont necessarily like. If I can achieve this, my

writing skills will improve greatly. Overall, this is a crucial goal I need to work on and achieve.

The second goal is dDo not procrastinate on papers.. I chose this goal because I took this same

class last semester which and I ended up dropping because I would procrastinate on a paper and

would either not be complete the assignment, or I would submit just aa structurally weak paper.

Being able to start obtain a habit of not procrastinating on assignments will overall make my

papers better and increase my overall class performanceto be more successful in the class. The

third goal is to become bBetter at writing introductions and conclusions for papers.. I feel that

being able to write a good introduction and conclusion for a your paper is a good skill to have

because the introduction is what attracts the reader and the conclusion sums up the writing.

These , which areare two of the most important sections in a paper and a. chieving this goal will

help me improve greatly as a writer.

The process I went through to create my sticker was to first think of an inspirational

quote that would relate to me fully. Next, I used the website www.canva.com, which helped

me design my sticker and I found the background picture off of Google Images. Lastly, I typed

the quote on the top left corner of the background. Overall, Canva was a good and easy website

to design the sticker. The quote I used for my sticker was, Sometimes you got to do things you

dont want to do, which had an unknown author. The reason I chose this quote was because in

ayour lifetime one mustyoure going to have to do many things theyyou dont want to do but in

the end you just have to do it has to be doneit. This , which can relate to my relationship with
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college., Manya lot of times I do notnt want to write an essay or study for a final but in the end I

have to do it and it will benefit me in the future. This quote is very motivating and can help me

strive throughout all my classes and in mymore importantly, life. The background I used for my

sticker is a mountain landscape with the sun rising over the mountains which. The sun rising

represents the positivity in the world., In addition, also when the sun rises this means that it ists

the start of a new day and you will face things in your path or that you just dont want to deal

with but you willalthough adversities may create difficulties, it is exceedingly important to find

the way to overcome them and strive in the moment. The mountain landscape represents that by

doing the things you dont want to do this will help younot wanting to be done, which shows the

importance of climbing the mountain to reach success in whatever you seek outis sought out

to achieveachieve.

One of the biggest obstacles for me toI have to overcome in order to achieve my goals

this semesters goals is going to be procrastination. Honestly, II am am really bad about

procrastinating because often times I do not have the motivation to do the an assignment or

study for athe test untiltill the last moment possibleinute, which hurts my grades and course

successsuccess in class. Another obstacle would be class absences because occasionally I will

occasionally oversleep my alarm or I simply do not feel like going to class. This hurts me,

which will hurt me even moreespecially if I go over the allowance of three absences per class as

it diminishes my opportunity to score well. Overall, I am very confident I can overcome these

obstacles and achieve the goals I have set forth for the semester.