Self-Evaluation

Throughout the course of this semester in English 21007, I have progressed as a writer. When I first came to this class, I had just finished my freshman composition class English 110 and I was still a raw writer, especially in the engineering fashion of writing. The first assignment in this class was to write your resume and cover letter that you would give to employers that would hire you for a job. So I learned from my teacher Ms. Alikhani that there was many parts to making a cover letter look better without too much writing, which I had in the beginning. In the next assignment, we had to respond to an incredible story by Ray Bradbury named “The Veldt”. It was about a smart house in the future, and it was very interesting to see how advances in technology affect society. The next few assignments, we had to do group work on a lab report and creating a memo for it. We learned the setup of how to write these things so that in the future, we can use this information to present our products as engineers without making us look bad and look more knowledgeable. Then we had to write a technical description about any object of our choosing and this helped me learn the technical side of writing and how to truly describe things as an engineer rather than as a poet or businessman per say. It was a very cool assignment because there was a technical  poem in the beginning of the assignment and we had to describe our object as a poem, and it was fun putting a creative funny way to describe my laptop keyboard while I had to describe it very technical right after, with exact numbers of size and many other things. In our final assignment, my group had to do a proposal about any topic that we liked, preferably something related to our major that would be a helpful invention to the world. I learned from this assignment how to work truly as a group and split the work to achieve a final goal of proposing our idea of an invention to help society and talk about its pros and cons so it can be more of a reality then just a dream. I learned overall, how to work together as a group to make projects and present them properly so that the audience would be interested, how to communicate with the teacher to get help with any assignments if needed, how to write important lab reports, memos, etc. that I would need to write for serious engineering assignments, and know how to think of a project idea of the top of my head if something calls for it, like an assignment from this class or an engineering project. Ms. Alikhani was very helpful in making me learn these course outcomes for this class and she was very inspiring in her teaching and that just boosted my interest to go in to chemical engineering and have confidence to do well in the projects and assignments that will face me there, and have a future in helping society with my knowledge in the future, whatever it is that I do.

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