One of the learning outcomes I feel I have learned is to “Develop strategies for … drafting”. I have learned this through doing an outline for my learning analysis essay. The strategy I use to draft an outline is to get all the information I want to include in my essay written out on the page, and then start gradually sorting through the information and formulating an argument with it. This is a major improvement because I used to just start writing my papers and hope for the best, but now I’m being forced to plan them out more, which hopefully improves their quality.

Some of the annotations I had for the article “Environmental Racism and Climate Change — Missed Diagnoses” included information on what environmental racism is, how it manifests, and how it impacts marginalized communities. I also included the part that talks about how the climate crisis is going to continue to exacerbate pre-existing infrastructure disparities between wealthy and impoverished communities. I dont think annotating helped me because I had to do it for this assignment. Annotating usually only helps me when I care enough to do it because I want to, but when I force myself to annotate, I find it has less of an impact. I don’t think I need anything else to process this article.

My learning analysis essays genre was that of self-reflection. The purpose of the essay was to help me understand myself as a learner, and therefore be able to fulfill my potential as a student. My audience was myself, my instructor, and any of my peers who reviewed it. The context of my essay revolved around how I transformed the ways I learn to be applicable to my passions. One learning goal I achieved was learning how to properly organize an essay. I improved on this skill by learning how to create an essay outline and by receiving feedback on it.