The first major assignment was Informational Writing about how professional writing in my field of study is and compared to writing in other fields of study.
I learned a few things I didn't know or want to believe about writing as an engineer, but I actually learned more about writing as an English student. I learned the correct way to cite 'unpublished' and 'personal communication' sources, and I believe this is incredibly important because I will probably need to do it in the future. My assumptions of professional writing as an engineer were only supported with the completion of this assignment, I had a strong knowledge of the types of things that are included get included in this type of writing, all the facts both good and bad along with graphs and charts. The only real challenge I had with this assignment was trying to find source that helped exemplify the writing done by engineers, I couldn't really find any published sources that provided good enough examples for the purpose of this assignment. So I overcame this by using unpublished sources for engineers I know, the only drawback to this was that I was unable to keep or copy any of the documents I used and the information I used in my assignment had to be screened by the actual owners to make sure I didn't use any information that didn't need to be reproduced...that probably didn't make a lot of sense. Let's try this. The in-text-citations of my essay, had to be approved by the actual owners of the source, before I could include them. I learned that as a writer I am good with this kind of writing, I don't really enjoy trying to argue or make somebody believe me. I found group conferences to be very useful, mainly because I wasn't in a group and the conference is what helped me learn how to cite my sources. I think group conferences should continue, but maybe only for those who feel like they need it. The returned draft with comments was basically the same thing that got said in the conference, so all i really took away from the conference was the correct way to cite my "odd" sources.
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