Reflection of Letter to Family

    I generally enjoyed writing a letter to my family because it was so different from the other genres that we've been writing in class. It let me actually ask myself how I was doing allowed me to reach a different audience than any time previously in this class. It shows how through academic writing it can make you also a more intellectual person and expands our minds. Through writing and researching, reading and attempting to emulate other academic writers, it enables the academic writer within each of us. We are able to become them and encapsulate the same process and methods that they use to write. This alone helps us get an understanding of how to be good writers, and eventually good communicators. After all, good communication is the one thing that others see and perceive of you that allows them to determine how smart a person is. This letter was a great experience to show my family how in only a couple of months how much smarter I have become just from the amount of reading and writing I have done thus far. I will only get smarter in my endeavors and hopefully I was able to show how my expectations were not met yet I am still having the time of my life here and also that school is only going to get better. Being on my own is something that allows me to really see who I am as a person and also to learn new things every day. I really like my experience so far and through writing like this letter, my college experience will only get better.