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English 1101 Reflective Essay

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Looking back to when I first started my English 1101 class, I have truly grown tremendously as a writer. I came out of high school not knowing a lot about writing because, I never had an English teacher we always just had substitute teachers. Luckily, the texts that were required for English 1101 helped me so much.
The first assignment we had to do was to write about ourselves as writers and tell our professor what we wanted to work on. I said that I needed to work on my editing, grammar, and mechanics. Therefore, that was what I was working on throughout my English 1101 class.
So throughout my journey in English 1101 I think that my editing has improved tremendously because of all of the drafts that we had to do, this made me actually take the time an actually edit. At first, I thought that it was just going to be a waste of time doing three drafts and editing each one but, it actually turns out that …show more content…

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