Retrospective Blog

    As the semester comes to a close, it is crucial to reflect on the learning process for this class. Aside from the extensive research done for each essay, the activities and journey has equally taught us valuable skills for the future. The process we embarked in required a substantial amount of collaborative learning -- in class discussions, peer review sessions, and comments on blog; additionally, we also used self published blogs as part of our learning.

    My key takeaways from this process was the ability to learn to find fault within my own essays. Through collaborative peer reviewing, I realized that a large portion of the process requires analyzing how the sentence structure, topic sentence, and thesis flows within the whole essay. Through doing so for other essay during the review process, it became second nature to do so for my own essays. At the same time, to be able to articulate comments and feedback to peers is a skills necessary for the future as well -- constructive criticism without any intention of breaking down somebodies essay but instead find ways to help them, if necessary. I found the self published blogs as a way to collect my thoughts from my research or ideas and write them down into a singular platform. This speeds up the essay writing process by eliminating the need to constantly revisit past researched sources, as well as having the problem of forgetting ideas. 

    To conclude, I feel that these habits and activities could be implemented in the future. If not directly in a blog form, I think that I would definitely do this process for research and write it down somewhere just to collect my thoughts. My advice for future students is to be diligent in research so that it saves a lot of time for the themselves.