English 102 Reflection During the course of English 102, I took this year of the spring semester. I have accomplished a variety of goals I once thought were impossible. I have not only grown as a writer and a student but as an individual as well. I feel that through my experience of this English course, I have achieved knowledge and self-confidence to step out into the real world. In putting together my portfolio, I could definitely see that I have made an incredible progress from the foundation of this class. My practice of grammar, words and the general structure of my papers has improved massively. Reflecting on my strengths and weaknesses as a writer, as well as things I have learned in my own writing process is a big accomplishment. This spring semester, I supposed all my writings had both several strengths and weaknesses. I found that one of my strengths was how I was easily able to …show more content…
Dr. lmre incorporated many different activities that assisted me to progress in my writing style and process. Peer reviews were something that I felt was very helpful. I also believed that having the group conferences with Dr. Imre really helped me on building the necessary revisions for my papers. My overall experience in this class was unbelievably helpful and now I feel that I can write any paper without a problem. In my future, I hope to continue the skills I have acquired during this English class. I think that they will be very obliging to me, nevertheless of what I am trying to achieve. In this course, I was encountered with deadlines, instructions, and assignments that I could not work around. I found that all of these responsibilities have made me comprehend that I could definitely take the next step forward in life. Each experience has made me continue to grow and constantly learning something new. I have truly enjoyed this English class and know what I have learned will be tremendously
Throughout the course of the year in Lit/Writing I have grown as a writer as I have learned how to write clear and concise thesis statements and select relevant evidence. One way in which my writing has improved is through the conciseness and clearness of my thesis statements, as I now incorporate more detail into my thesis, while keeping it unambiguous. In the short story summative assessment for “The Scarlet Ibis,” my thesis statement lacks a lot of information. It goes as follows, “In the short story ‘The Scarlet Ibis,’ James Hurst uses indirect characterization through the narrator to show that pride can override and take over one’s conscience.”
It may be beneficial for the class if Denton discusses further, how to properly format a paper in MLA. Professor Denton mentioned that she does not circle people’s comma usage since she is not the best at it, as horrible as it sounds, that is beneficial to me. I am not the best when it comes to comma usage, so her saying that she does not care about how we use commas as long as they are not used in ridiculous
Despite the fact that I have had other written work classes, this course has expanded my trust in composing essentially. The perusing material were all around chose for this course. I feel that I have a superior comprehension of the fundamental components of composing. This has permitted me to build up a more grounded learning yearning in composing. I trust I now have improved as a composition researcher in view of my elaboration of my vocabulary and from what everything my teacher have taught me this semester.
Picture polos’ with kilts, knee-highs with Sperry’s, classrooms with only girls, and a chapel with nuns in the middle of a school. This was four years of Mary Anne’s life. Praying every morning, praying before class, praying at the end of the day, praying, praying, and more praying. Like any student, she disliked her school at times, but her love for the memories and the girls she spent it with outweighed the negatives. In religion classes they read the Bible and other religious works.
Finally my grammar has improved constantly throughout the course. I was able to see my mistakes and how to fix them when I was able to read my grader’s notes. Altering each of my common mistakes helped me understand how to write with correct grammar. The feedback I would get from the instructors helped to improve my rhetorical analysis paper. I learned to ask for assistance when I encountered a problem.
I found out that I loved novels that somehow tied into life happening all around me. I learned how to visualize what I was reading and ask questions that helped me dive deeper into my own way of thinking. As far as AP English being a bad experience I was pushing the envelope a little bit. It was a bad experience because I made it one. I was not aware of how much work it would take to be in an AP English class.
In conclusion, by deciding to work harder than my classmates and by never losing sight of my goals helped me to succeed in an APDC English Class. I feel more prepared for the next semester because the first semester taught me that we will never find an obstacle that we cannot overcome if we take wise decisions that will help us to move toward our goals.
I think the best way to describe my writing this quarter is that it was satisfactory. I did good enough to get a good grade, but could have done better. Throughout this quarter I have learned what to do to titles of movies, books, television shows and others in an essay. I also learned that I need to put the punctuation inside the quotation marks if it is at the end of a sentence. My strengths are research related papers and essays about myself.
The best part of this English class was all the participation everyone had given. One advantage about returning back to college later in my life was that it does have a great sense of purpose and more focused in my studies. As we all age we have more lifetime experience and knowledge of the new material being presented. Of the record, thank you for being such a fun, caring individual of an instructor. One could see how everyone in the class had a lot of respect for you.
The grade I would give my current English 111 class is an A, because it has been a beneficial learning experience for me. The essays given have improved my writing, and it has opened my eyes to the things that I often miss while proofreading. From this class, I learned that Proofreading is highly important, and that re-reading my work numerous times will help in catching some of my mistakes. I also confuse both present and past tense when writing, so from this taking class, I have learned to separate both tenses. From the essays, I also learned that it is important to write by using the English rules, despite writing what only sounds better, which had been my former style of writing.
Looking back through my days of writing in high school there was a lot I did not understand about the writing process. My writing was much unstructured and overall very poor compared to what it is today after this class. I believe that I have always been a good writer I just have not had the tools and knowledge to create a well written and knowledgeable paper. This course has helped me to meet the learning outcomes of learning to conduct factual research, making original and unbiased papers, writing different genres of papers in a professional way, correctly implementing the academic writing process, learning proper grammar and mechanics, and implementing critical thinking skills into my drafts.
The last few free writes that we have had were much more enjoyable to write since they were something I felt passionately about. I think over the past quarter my style of writing has become much clearer and flows more smoothly. Also I never knew what to look for while editing my paper until I started to print out rough draft and read over them. While reading printed rough drafts I notice awkward sentences, spelling errors, and most importantly missing commas. Another exercise that we do in this class is paragraph responses.
My English improved dramatically through reading many in-class assignments, essays, and various open class discussions. I learned many new words, idioms, grammar structures and expressions in this class. The course deals with reading, writing, and teaching how to use grammar properly, my vocabulary has definitely increased. I also have gained the knowledge that correcting each draft brings my paper one step closer to constructing a well-organized and perfect.
These past few months have been interesting. I procrastinated (more than I should have), written a few papers, but I have also learned a lot about writing. Walking into this I had some writing experience but not nearly as much as I should of had. I knew how to summarize, cite, and work in groups but this class gave me the opportunity to fine tune those skills and learn new skills. College should not be taken lightly and The first new skill I learned was how to write a college level paper.
I felt myself grow in my personal life. I feel happy with life. I got to experience fun moments with my significant other such as the excitement for my unexpected good essay grades or discuss the topics that were brought up in this class. I am eager to explore more into my major. I am glad that I have learned some skills for my essay, but these skills can also clean up my story telling as well.