METACOGNITION PAPER

Metacognition Paper Lukus W. Gibson CSU, Chico

METACOGNITION PAPER Abstract The main eight habits of success that many people are familiar with are curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and metacognition. In order to become a better writer, any of these habits is a great place to start. However, the three habits that I believe every writer should have are curiosity, persistence, and responsibility. Curiosity is the desire to know more about the world, persistence is the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short-and long-term projects, and responsibility is being able to take ownership of ones actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others. At the beginning of the semester, I believed that curiosity and persistence were only habits that were needed. I was wrong however, because as I will soon explain, responsibility is just as if not the most important habit.

METACOGNITION PAPER Metacognition Paper Curiosity is always going to be the one habit that drives anyone to do anything, whether it be learning about an ancient civilization for independent study or reading the contents on the back of aluminum can so they know what is going into their body. Showing curiosity was one of my

goals this semester, and one example is from the assignment, The Path. I had noticed a path off to the side of the main walkway that led down to the river that runs the through the college. There I found a sense of peace and serenity that can only be experienced by a primal instinct that you somehow belong there. Persistence is the driving force habit that helps us finish researching a topic for class or stay focused on an assignment. One example of persistence would be from the Love Letter assignment. The letter was to be about someone we love but we were not allowed to use any abstractions like love, beautiful, or sad. And we had to describe the loved one in the form of a trees beauty. Now that assignment was challenging to the point where I thought it was nearly impossible to write a love letter without using the word love at least once. However I got through it with the mindset that as soon as it seems done, I would check it for any abstractions and then I would be finished with it. Responsibility is the habit that is probably the most important out of any of the habits. This habit I have to own up to in the sense that I did not finish many of my assignments towards the end of the semester. At a certain stage in responsibility where you know you could have done better, you come to terms with it. I realized that as soon as the final grade comes up, I am willing to accept the outcome that I might have to retake the class.