Transcript Lesson 18 Essentials Video: Reflecting

TERRYN: Yeah, I've definitely improved. I definitely write a little bit different. Because I still have my essays saved on my laptop. And I actually just looked at them last week to see how I've improved, and it's definitely come a long way.

ALYSSA: When I get feedback, there's kind of two sides to it. There's knowing what you have to do to make a better grade in that specific professor's class. And then there's understanding what you are doing wrong, I guess fundamentally and knowing that you really need to take your professor's advice and apply it to all of your writing.

DEONTA: What's helped me become a stronger writer is not necessarily a great that I get on a paper, just like the feedback that I get from professors, and being able to sit down and talk with them about how I could do better on the next paper, or what it was in this paper that didn't work, and why it didn't work. So that's been a great help to me in improving my writing.

ERIK: I want to better myself and kind of mature really in my writing process. And I don't want my essays to sound the same. I want them to keep growing and getting better after each essay.

HANNAH: So when the professor points out to me, Hannah, this is where you're weak, I go, oh, OK, I need to improve on that. And then I'll go back to my old papers and look, and try and find evidence of what they're trying to say. And more often than not, I do find plenty of evidence. So then, once I'm made aware of that, I go and focus on it on my next papers, and really work to improve that.

MICHAEL: And sometimes, when I'm in the moment, I don't see how I'm constructing that story. I'm too into the project to understand all the little details, all the little decisions I'm making unconsciously, or even sometimes consciously. You just don't reflect on that as well as you do when you look at it from maybe even just a few months later. So it's really helpful to look back at your writing, and really helpful to understand who you are as a writer to look back.

NIA: To be a good college writer, you need to be humble. You need to be able to listen. And you need to be you know open for criticism. And thus you will build. I think that in college I have grown. My technique has grown. I still am the Nia. I still have my own creative funk in my writing, but an intelligent person might be able to read it now, whereas before, I don't know what level I was on.