Looking back on this past semester in ENC2135, I am satisfied with what happened. Daniel’s class has allowed me to develop a new foundation for my beliefs about writing. Writing has never come easy to me previously. I was always forced to write about topics I did not care for, and this ultimately led me to despising writing. I am glad that in Daniel’s class I was able to write about topics that I truly care about. I believe it really helped me make the deadlines. I have an irrational fear of not submitting things on time, so I often worked ahead of schedule. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a bad thing since it allowed for me to write what I believed to be the best I could write for each of the projects. Daniel really helped boost my self-esteem when it came to writing whenever I had a conference with him, I am really grateful. This ENC 2135 class has been, and probably will continue to be, my favorite writing class. I learned a lot about genre and rhetorical situations within writing that I never thought I would. I now understand that writing is a process and that it is fine if your first draft is absolute garbage. I now know the different rhetorical situations of life and not just writing. Everything you do has a rhetorical situation from whether or not you are writing an email to your teacher about bringing cookies to class or if you are writing a text to your friend about how you couldn’t wait to prove your class wrong about Chinese sweatshops. I now know that your genre can be anything you want it to be as long as it conveys your ideas. I had always thought that writing was stuck to the strict confines of the classics, but I was wrong. Writing can be whatever you want it to be.
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