★ acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to
develop rhetorical sensibility

In my research papers, I was able to use counterarguments to strengthen and support my thesis. By providing a counterargument and refuting the counterargument, it helps to make myself an authority on the topic.
★ enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment

When I wrote the bigger papers of the semester I made outlines to help me gather and organize my ideas.
★ negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of the genre, medium, and
rhetorical situation

I think that I made my opinions clear in my writing. In the future, I will expand on my thoughts more in order to let the readers see my point of view more as well as clarify topics in my writing.
★ develop and engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes

One of the most helpful assignments would be the peer review feedback forms. They allowed me to see what my peers think about my writing and how I could improve my writing to better the clarity.
★ engage in genre analysis and multimodal composing to explore effective writing across disciplinary contexts
and beyond

In the research paper and the literary review, in particular, I synthesized different sources to show that multiple experts on specific topics thought similar things. By incorporating synthesized sources, I was able to present and write as an authority on a subject.
★ formulate and articulate a stance through and in your writing

For each of my papers, the thesis was clear and properly expressed what the paper would be about.
★ practice using various library resources, online databases, and the Internet to locate sources appropriate to
your writing projects

For the literary review, in particular, it was my first time using the CCNY databases in order to locate sources for my paper.
★ strengthen your source use practices (including evaluating, integrating, quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing,
synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources)

Overall, I think I could have done better at paraphrasing and summarizing my sources to help clarify my sources.