D13HW3 WP3 Reflection

To start this project I took all the notes I had taken thus far and made a condensed version of my notes and reviewed it. Then I constructed several drafts of an outline for the paper until I settled on one I liked. After than I wrote the paper. For the most part I stuck to the outline but I made changes and additions where I deemed them necessary. After that I began the review and revision project ending with me submitting the final draft of my paper after having a good friend do a final peer review. For the course portfolio I'm thinking that I'll make a outline for the letter and then get right into it. I'm proud of many parts of my paper. Specifically I'm proud of the structure I settled on as my paper is different than most of my classmate's in that it is mostly an exercise in educated speculation. For a while I was concerned that I might have to much speculation and not enough hard facts but after going through it I decided that it was actually fairly well balanced so I'm not so worried about it any more. During this project I practiced a lot in the area of evidence analysis, structure, and prediction and I'm proud of what I came up with though under no impression that it's perfect. This helped me achieve the second course competency which was to organize writing to support a central idea through unity, coherence, and logical development appropriate to a specific writing context. For my next project I'm going to have to work on the basics of a project portfolio as I've never constructed one before. During this next writing project one of the main course competencies I'll be working on is the Assessment of my own writing strengths and identifying strategies for improvement through instructor conference, portfolio, written evaluation, and/or other methods.