Self-reflection paragraph: 

What a journey!  At the beginning of the year, I was extremely nervous about college writing, as I was unsure if I could make my papers long, but not repetitive, but dense with information and analysis at the same time.  However, I now am feeling more confident about my ability to please college professors with my various papers that I will be assigned throughout my college career.  Throughout the year, I think my diction has improved and that I have started to vary my sentence structure much more.  While I do need to work on making big and bold statements in my thesis, I think have improved in this area overall as well.  Another aspect of my writing that I need to work on is saying more, while not using so many words to do so.  Wordiness has plagued my writing for years, and often is my primary writing weakness.  In my opinion, the paper that helped me realize what a college paper looks like was my paper on the lack of academic integrity in Division I NCAA athletics.  I feel as if I did a good amount of research and coupled that with great analysis.  College papers require analysis from multiple sourced and then combining that with one’s own opinion.  This was my favorite assignment of the year, as it combined my deep love of sports with my love for writing.