Content Outline

This is how I am going to approach doing my project!

Opening

MAIN IDEA

• Discuss the three things that I am going to be discussing in my course final and the three things that I have learned in this class
• time management
• how I have changed as a writer
• importance of finding a topic that I am actually interested in

EVIDENCE

• How I struggled with my writing strategies
• important because it will show how I have grown over the semester
• Why I had the time management issues because of my different classes that are so hard
• will explain the reasons behind my choice to take less credits for the hard classes

IMPORTANCE

• The importance of including this section is that it will explain the reasons why I have grown over the course of this semester and why it was so great that I was able to learn so much over this semester.

HOW TO GRAB THE READERS' ATTENTION

• start off with how much I originally was a complete mess at the beginning of the semester and how much I have grown over the past 4 months.

Body Paragraph 1

MAIN IDEA

• Discuss the reasons why I struggled with time management and the things that I did to help myself become more organized
• Discuss my plans for changing my organizational skills
• How it will help me in the future

EVIDENCE

• Hard classes that I was taking with this English class
• shows how my expecations were completely wrong for the class overall
• Thought that English wouldn't take as much time
• completely underestimated the amount of time that it would take to get all of the necessary work done for these projects.

  IMPORTANCE:

• The importance of this paragraph is that it showed me that I will always have a lot of things to do but it is the amount of time that I spend figuring out how much I should spend on each thing and learning how to prioritize my time that was what was an important outcome of this class.

Body Paragraph 2:

MAIN IDEA

• Discuss the different ways that I changed as a writer since the beginning of the semester
• "Heavy editor"
• Became an "edit while I work" kinda writer
• What I have done to change my ways

EVIDENCE

• Differences between the 3 projects and how those worked for me
• the importance of showing my progression of my writing throughout the semester and how it has affected my writing overall
• What I have changed in my writing over the semester
• the importance of showing how I have changed my strategies of approaching the writing when I am assigned the different projects.

IMPORTANCE:

• The importance of including this paragraph is that the difference in how I approached my writing projects and why it is so important to have been able to change the way that I write so that I can become a more confident writer and edit as I go instead of editing after the whole essay is written.

Body Paragraph 3

   

    MAIN IDEA

• Discuss the different ways that I have discovered what kind of things interest me and why that has improved the ways that I have become a bit of a better writer.
• Describe my change in major and the importance of that in my interest of writing
• Occupational Therapy
• Public Health
• How I have grown as a writer because of my major change

EVIDENCE:

• Discuss what it was like to be Undecided for a while and trying to write the papers without having any interest in these subjects
• what made me change my major finally
• How I didn't know what to do for the 2nd project because I wasn't expecting it
• the second project really opened my eyes to the fields of OT and public health

IMPORTANCE

This paragraph is important because without talking about the differing writing changes, I wouldn't be able to defend the amount of work that I have done throughout the semester.

Conclusion:

MAIN IDEA

• Conclude with the reasons why this class has helped so much and why it is such a great experience for my future
• Describe the biggest thing that I took away from this class

EVIDENCE

• Why I became much more confident in my writing
• important because it was really important for me to become more confident in my writing and how I approach these writing projects
• How I have increased my motivations for writing
• important because I have learned that these are the topics that are most interesting to me and make me want to write better

IMPORTANCE

• This paragraph is important because without the conclusion saying why it is so great that I have completed this course and learned so much, I will probably be able to become more successful in my writing career in the future.

LARGER SIGNIFICANCE

• The biggest picture of this reflection is that I have grown intellectually because of this course. It has taught me so much about myself and about my writing. I really feel much more confident about myself when I am writing a paper, which is important because I used to be really embarrassed about my writing and what I would produce. So this class has really helped me overcome that fear.