Reflections

1. What did you notice about your writing process during this course? Did your writing process change? If so, how? The most significant part of my writing process I noticed was the constant feedback/direction. It helped me maintain my focus throughout the written material.
If your writing process changed, what course assignments/interactions supported that change? The Lunsford essay-we read the essays as a class and then wrote about it. Then we discussed our ideas and elaborated on our initial perspectives. The semester was like a 4 month brainstorming session.

2. What have you noticed about your finished essays? Writing styles vary depending on the audiences. The differences are much more acute now. Did the quality of your essays change as a result of this course? If so how? If your final products changed, what do you think led to those changes? Improvement! Constant collaboration.3. What did you notice about the way you coach writing students? I took better notice of my communication style when I’m dealing with students.
Did your approach to coaching change during the term? Yes
If so, how? I listen closely and ask a lot of questions. I tend to mentally switch roles with the student so I can communicate to them the way I’d like to receive communication.
Were any course assignments/interactions useful in facilitating this learning?

4. What have your experiences coaching writing students shown you about effective strategies for talking/communicating to others?
Listening is the key to communication…
Non-verbal cues are important-I never realized just how important they are until I reflected on my sessions.
Writing things down is very important...

5. How has your work coaching writing students changed the way you learn?
It hasn’t changed the way I learn, but it caused me to take notice of how I learn.