My perception of what writing is and does has evolved significantly since the beginning of the semester. I believed and still do believe that writing is an amazing way to communicate ideas, feelings, and moments in time to others across generations of people. This will continue to be my belief, but I now have a better understanding of what more writing can do. It is a time-honored tradition and should be continued to be taught and learned so that we may pass it on to our children. However, I now recognize that writing has a more functional aspect in communicating the problems and solutions of today that we may not typically think about. It is also now that I realize the importance of language, its development across peoples and how it is interpreted, and its relation to writing. Our interpretation of language is what drives us to write. It is what solidifies our voice and our place in the world. 

The course learning objectives that I felt were most prominent in my writing include recognition of language attitudes, practicing using online databases, strengthening our source use and engagement in multimodal composition. Throughout our first unit we recognized the role of language and its ability to empower and oppress its users. We read several different writing pieces by various authors, all of whom had experience with the English language, the discrimination of language and the versatility of language. Recognizing the role of the English language for its users was a big part of understanding what many of these authors were talking about. We learned what it meant to code switch, how language stereotypes affect people socially and professionally, and why breaking language barriers is important to create a peaceful and equal society. In our second unit, strengthening our source citing and practicing using resources was well executed throughout the research of our argumentative essay topic. My chosen topic included the exploration of how accent discrimination seeps into the professional environment and how it negatively affects the hiring process. Through the act of researching, we went through several online databases, finding resources and practiced citing, analyzing, summarizing and paraphrasing different scholarly sources. During our third unit, we engaged in a different form of argument, visual argument. For this assignment, we were tasked to create a visual argument, through the use of image, color, symbolism,and quotation. This use of multimodal composition allowed us to explore different, but effective writing strategies using a medium other than pure word. 

These strategies helped me to achieve a better understanding of what writing does, and what language does, for that matter. Writing and language go hand in hand, and to understand how writing has and will evolve, we must first understand how language has evolved, as well. My development of the course learning objectives allowed me to gain a different perspective on language, what writing does for language and vice versa. The use of language and writing has changed very much since the beginnings of English. As we discussed in Unit one, some critics believe that reverting to the traditional ways of language is what is preferable in order to keep our language alive, however, because of its versatility, language cannot submit to such a way of thinking. Therefore, writing will continue to differ across decades, across communities and across people. This is what is so beautiful about writing and language, its ability to be versatile. So, to the question, what is writing, I say writing is language and language is versatile.