Personal Narrative: My Future Job As A Registered Dietitian

Some of the most beneficial things that I have learned during this semester of English 250 was based around getting a feel again, for what it is to be an academic based author. I relearned what proper MLA format is supposed to look like, along with how to correctly cite sources without plagiarizing. Along with those examples I learned more of what it means to sound professional in writing, rather than writing as if I were to be having a conversation with someone else. And some of my favorite things that I did while in English 250 had to be the research paper, because I was able to dig deep into my own research and study a topic that was very interesting to me, and in the end compose an essay that I thought was well constructed and more professional
than my writing had ever been in the past.

In my future job as a Registered Dietitian I imagine that I will be using all three forms of W.O.V.E.
As a Registered Dietitian, I will constantly be communicating with others from a face to face standpoint and putting my oral communication to the test, when communicating with fellow peers, or patients. I will also most likely be giving presentations to those who want to learn more about nutrition in the community, where I would have visuals available as some people find visuals to be easier understood, while at the same time, once again working on oral communication from a presenters point of view. And with technology being such a major role in everyone's lives, there is no doubt that electronic will play a major role in my future job, as a Registered Dietitian. Electronic communication will be something that I will use everyday, such as calling, E-mailing, and maybe even texting those who I need to get a hold of, whether it be patient or peer. Not only will I use electronic communication in this way, but I plan on using it also as a means of business. Social Media is a great way to get your name out there in the world, and if I want to be successful, taking advantage of such a great tool could give my own business a
boost.

I think that the reflection is somewhat helpful, and can make it more clear on what you may need to work on as an author, but I also believe that everyone likes to read different things, and what one person believes is great, the other may not. In other words it may be just a matter of opinion. When writing, or doing anything in life it is impossible to satisfy absolutely everyone. Along with that, I think that the reflection process was not as helpful as the peer response. The peer response gave us students the opportunity to give our writings away to other peers for a chance to be read and in return made better. It sometimes is hard to critique, or want to change something that you have written yourself, so having the ability of a fresh mind who has not scanned over the same essay repeatedly to make edits to your writing can be a major key to your success in the class. Not only this but if you were struggling understanding what was being asked of in an assignment you were given a chance to ask someone else, and maybe brainstorm of your own ideas after reading someone else work, to better your own.

If I had the opportunity to change the curriculum of English 250 I would make it so that the student had a choice between writing either the visual rhetorical analysis, or the textual rhetorical analysis.
I believe that both of these assignments offer virtually the same learning target and that as a class you could spend less time on these ideas to focus more on other things. Besides the Argument of Mediation Assignment, by far my favorite assignment was the Family Recipe. That is not just because it was the shortest assignment, and didn't take hours of planning and rewriting, but because as a student I finally felt like I could be creative. The whole reason I ever enjoyed writing back in middle school, was because we were given fun prompts to follow, and were able to write our own stories, instead of following a strict regimen that is nowhere near as opportunistic as such. In college we as students are living on our own, and given this sense of freedom and I wish I had gotten the chance in English 250 to have the opportunity to be much more of a creative writer, with a storytelling assignment, or something along those
lines.