I believe the outcome I have improved the most on would be the third outcome, “Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking”. I personally feel as if I improved on this outcome by closely reading and rereading the assigned texts, highlighting words or phrases that stood out to me, and making annotations and notes in the margins helping me analyze the text on a further level. By doing this, I feel like I have become a better active reader, helping me find clarity and interpret the text for future discussions or assignments. An outcome that could use more work before the end of the semester would be the second outcome, “Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources”. I feel as if I could work on this outcome because of the lack of analysis I have in some of my essays. I feel like I am very good at explaining things, but connecting those explanations back to my thesis and looking at it from a deeper level could be integrated more in my writing. I can improve this by using resources like my peers and SASC to look at the analysis and find out how I can connect it back to my thesis on with a strong level of understanding.