May, 1999

The ability to develop rapport with other members of the class has been essential in researching and fine-tuning many of the documents I created in this class. Early in the semester, classmates communicated via Oncourse exchanging idea and resources. Two of the sources used in my annotated bibliography were sources first found by a classmate. Not having established a communicative relationship with my classmate, my annotated bibliography would not have met the course requirements. In evaluating each other’s documents during periods of peer revision, I was able to effectively communicate idea that not only helped classmates’ documents, but also allowed me to rethink structures in my own documents. By speaking about writing my thinking about writing was greatly increased. In addition, this course gave me the opportunity to interview two professionals and use their information in creating my documents. I have learned that conducting an interview is an extremely helpful form of networking, as both professionals urged me to contact them again if there is anything they can help me with.

May, 1999