Throughout the “This I No Longer Believe” paper, I was able to learn how to write about myself. Before coming to college, especially in high school, we usually never practiced writing about ourselves but instead just analysis of books that we read and what were the author’s intentions or what rhetorical tools were seen to enhance the story or lesson learned. From this paper, it was a fun experience writing about myself as I found it refreshing to not write about someone else. I believe the last time I wrote about myself was back in elementary school so writing this paper helped me understand now what I should and can be writing to be considered as “college level”. 

I don’t believe I have a lot of questions after writing this paper but I think one question would be what could I do to improve on my introduction and conclusion paragraphs. However, some strengths I saw when writing this paper would be that I was able to have a structured paper from introduction to conclusion and I was able to write about myself. To be honest, when I first heard of this assignment, I thought I would have a difficult time writing about myself because it’s been a long time since I did but it turns out I didn’t have to worry about it. If I were to revise the writing I did for this unit, I would probably want to improve on my conclusion because I felt that the discovery of my parents being the tooth fairy wasn’t enough but I wanted to put what happened after or what my parents tried to say to cover up this incident to get me to still believe but I felt like I would be writing too much if I did.

Looking back, my rate of participation/engagement in this unit wasn’t that good. Sure I participated a bit when we were discussing ways or places that help us focus when doing work but I didn’t really participate when we started discussing the tools we can use to write this paper. Even though I didn’t engage as much, I was still able to obtain useful information or tips on what I can do to make my paper better or how I could give a better peer review response. After that, I then organized my thoughts about my topic, the tooth fairy and then structured them into paragraphs that I can plan on writing. This helped me be successful in writing this paper because each paragraph had a clear goal in mind that I made to make sure I was writing the right information about that event.

I don’t think you should change anything in the structure of our course because currently, I feel like it’s fine as of now because I was able to get useful information on what I could do when planning this paper and how I could write this type of paper. I think reading the example papers were definitely my favorite because these examples helped me decide on how I would write this paper and how I could write about myself. Besides that, I don’t think there’s anything else to say about this reflection.