Dear Professor Olivia,
This semester has been one of the weirder ones due to covid, and this class was extremely well done despite how difficult the pandemic made schooling. From this class I learned quite a few things. I learned how to be more imaginative in my writing, I learned how to do an ethnography, I learned many terms and what they entail like web genre, and I even learned how to properly do news reporting. But out of all the different topic that I learned, what I would want to learn more about after really discovering it would be natural science writing. Overall, I feel like the unit 3 project was the most fun one that I have done, and it was very interesting to me to attempt to get into the mindset of a scientific writer and attempt to use sophisticated terminology. My unit three project demonstrated the enthusiasm that I hold for scientific writing. I put a lot of effort into it and once again I feel like it was my best work in terms of imagination and fitting the genre that you wanted us to write in, which is natural science writing.
Writing has never been my strongest point and I feel like it became further apparent to me the more I wrote in this class. While grammar wasn’t really taught in this class, I certainly had to write and with the more I wrote, the more I felt my writing improving and grammar with it. Another skill that I want to try to further develop is my ability to detect bias in what I’m reading. A lot of it can be very subtle and this class really made me understand that and so I want to able to not only detect those bias writing clues but also notice them in my own writing and be able to remove that, or add it as an element in my writing. Thus, I truly do hope that those skills develop greater in the future as there is always room for growth and this class seemed to really increase my personal grown in many kinds of writing or just writing in general.
Sincerely, Aaron Diaz
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