Blog #12

Part 1:
For the writing center, one person came in asking for assistance on their lab report, asking for corrections on grammar and other such things. There were only a few very minor problems, that only took 2-3 minutes to cover everything she asked for. We learned the reason this girl came in for help was more to get the extra credit her class was offering her to come in for help. Although, I did learn about lab report layouts a bit, I had never done one before so it was different to see.

From working in the writing center, I really learned a lot about organization and dealing with fluff in papers. A lot of what the writing center does is help people create clear and concise papers, which, I can tell from reading older papers of mine, is something I had trouble with. I am making all sorts of edits on my Junior Writing Portfolio paper using things I learned from in class and the writing center. I would definitely say this class has improved my writing skills in ways I didn't think needed assistance.

Part 2:
I have worked on a fixing a few writing issues I had with the help of this class. Sentence Level revision is something I have begun to use on papers for other classes now; I was writing those papers to fill up space before, but now I am expressing myself in a well done and concise way. This also ties in with my issues with fluff, and I have begun reducing it in my papers. My sentences were unnecessarily long because I was using words that sounded nicer and better. Finally, I made changes to my revision process, which now includes using post-it notes to represent my main paragraphs, and I would be able to move those around in order to fix my paper's structure. In my opinion, there has been a lot of improvements to my writing with help from this class.