What I learned in English 402

I would say that the main thing that I learned in this class is to be more concise and maintain an active voice in my writing. I've enjoyed practicing these things in my memos each week, as well as finding my own style of organizing information. What I liked most about this class was that I learned real-life uses for writing in a job setting. I feel like I can take something away from this class and use it in my current or future job.

It was interesting to learn about people with careers that involve different areas of writing. People have these job titles that one can sort of get an idea of what they do, but, as we learned, there can be many more aspects to a job that we never considered.

One thing that came up a lot in the reading for this class was making your writing reader-centered. I learned that you can't just jump into a piece of writing and target it to a general audience. Before you even start writing, you have to think about the people you're writing for, and even for those that may come in contact with your writing indirectly.