Reflective Cover Letter: Academic Writing

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Academic writing forms the basis of college or higher education as it is mandatory for students to express their understanding of the different concepts taught in equally diverse disciplines. However, the majority of the students have express reservations or fear when it comes to performing the different writing tasks. Such limitations pose a great challenge to students when it comes to performing such tasks as they struggle to achieve academic excellence across the different subjects or areas of specialty in college. The writing course offers an excellent platform for overcoming the outlined challenges in performing writing tasks as they get to understand the basic requirements for the successful completion of the same and overall improvement in academic performances. Provided herein is a reflection of some of the key takeaways from the course whose insight have been of great input towards enhancing individual writing skills.
The writing course functions to alleviate the misleading myths and fears on the vital academic skill. Contrary to common belief, grammatical knowledge and eloquence in speech do not reflect a person’s ability to produce the same performance in writing CITATION Irv19 \l 1033 (Irvin). The course played a significant role in changing my attitude towards writing as it made it easy to overcome the influence of grammatical knowledge and skills, which was often misleading when performing the tasks CITATION Irv19 \l 1033 (Irvin). The course further enhanced my research, analytical, and contextualizing skills as the key or the foundation for carrying out a writing task from across the different learning disciplines. It is important to make a comprehensive research of the topic question or the instructor’s prompt for a particular writing task as it equips the writer with the relevant material for completing the task as per the instructions CITATION Irv19 \l 1033 (Irvin). Extensive research coupled with excellent analytical skills further enhance the writer’s ability to highlight the main points for the assignment while also coherently arranging them. Contextualizing of both the research materials and the writing task itself further helps the students to maintain the flow of the content and thus maintaining the reader’s attention CITATION Car10 \l 1033 (Carol). The writing course further provided a basis for reviewing and honing writing skills as per the requirements of the writing task for the diverse academic fields. The course further reiterates on the fact that academic writing refers to the presentation of the student’s argument about a point, which they put forth as their understanding of a given concept. The student’s presentation of a given concept based on their understanding forms the basis of academic writ...