As a first year student in college taking English 104 was quite challenging than I expected. I always considered myself as a poor writer and reader. I’ve always had trouble understanding English growing up because I was always surrounded in Spanish environment growing up. In this semester, I had to force myself to get the basics of English before going beyond to English 114 in order for me to feel comfortable writing and reading. As I worked with my classmates and my professor, I was encouraged to be more aware of the way I write. All sorts of error I made on my essays became more visible as I practiced to develop grammar, clarity, and building effective paragraphs. Midway this course, my peers and I had to write three essays and state my claim …show more content…
My first and second drafts were shitty. My paragraphs were not sentenced structured, I did not have enough supporting sentences and of course, I had a good amount of grammatical error. I seek resources that would help me on my essays. Learning Assistance Center and feedback from my professor helped me analyze and develop more ideas to support my opinion. My progress started improving when I started to annotated Paulo Freire’s Of Pedagogy Of The Oppressed. I developed more ideas as I broke down sentences from Paulo Freire’s essay and re-wrote it as my own. With my classmates and professors feedback from my rough draft, I was able to write a well-written essay on Paulo Freire’s Of Pedagogy Of The Oppressed. In both my “Personal Narrative” essay and my “Banking Concept”, struggled with grammatical error a lot. My third paper “Civil Disobedience”, I struggled with sentence level errors and work citing. This was the hardest essay for me to write. Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience paper was very hard to annotate and get good information to support my claim. Next time I write an essay I plan to write a strong essay skeleton-particularly with clear topic sentences, write a proofread plan to address my myriad sentence level issues and write a list of works