What reflective or metacognitive writing after reading “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What were you thinking?”  by Sandra L. Giles,  is a process where the writer needs to revise her/his writing with a sense of awareness and a careful manner,  analyzing and questioning her/his thinking on the writing the first draft. This process is more than pleasing the professor but criticizing own work in order to be on track and to communicate the message in a clear manner to the audience. 

My experience with reflecting on my writing was not an easy task to do. I always tend to not see my own errors when I am checking my work. Adding to that I was confused about what I had to do. I also notice that I was avoiding doing that task. Yet, after reading “Shitty First Draft” by Anne Lamott I felt more relaxed knowing that even for professionals writers the process of having the first draft done. But doing the revision helps me to stay focus on what I want to convey. I also identify and did change some words and sentences. I did correct some grammatical errors. 

When I started with the Unit 1 Assignment, I did not know what word to choose, but when I started to read my classmates’ ideas and how creative they were in their posts, I came out with the idea of choosing to write about cooperatives. Having Professor Wheeler’s feedback was really helpful. The process, however, was kind of confused for my trying to follow it. This is the first time that I follow, therefore I was back and forth. Nevertheless, the fact that the word I choose for my discourse communities is something that I am very familiar with it made me move forward in my writing. I also by the first time ever joining the written center, they help me with the citations. I feel more comfortable with my work, yet always open to learning more and receive feedback because this is my first essay for this semester. Having other people’s examples like the ones that Giles used in her paper is a good guide.