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English Reflective Report

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When being placed into English 102 this semester, like most students I felt mixed emotions. I was anxious, excited, and curious about what was to come the next couple of weeks. Of course English has always been my favorite subject, and it is something I valued, but I did not think that I would do as well as I did this semester. Since I am a nursing major I took this class very seriously. Most people would not understand how an English course like this one can be significant when it comes to the world of patient care. However, I was a student intern my senior year at a hospital and was surprised to find out how important it is to pay attention in your English class. Nursing is not only about physically taking care of patients, it requires many different skills that have to do with writing. For instance, nurses have to give reports on each patient to describe their current state of condition and the specific procedures that need to take place for each individual. …show more content…

I have always had a problem with the way I structured my sentences, and the way I used grammar. Growing up, I never really thought that I had a strong background in these aspects. This has caused many issues in my upper level writing. Many times I have to take extra time out of my day to correct simple grammar and sentence structure issues. This can become very time consuming. One time I failed at these aspects in English 102 was in my report paper, “Southern Stereotypes”. In my introduction and other many parts of my essay, I didn’t use my commas correctly. One example of this is in the following sentence. “Maybe it’s the wide range of farms, and land you pass by when you go through the South.” Not only does this sentence sound odd, the grammar is incorrect. The way I structured this sentence is also very confusing. This is just one example of many where my grammar and sentence structure was not the

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Going into this class, I expected to just receive a high grade; however, I gained many more things. I was able to identify things I still struggle with in my writing. Tone and writing to my audience is the main skill I needed improvement on. On the first assignment, the personal narrative, I struggled in making the audience feel my story instead of just hearing it. Although I received feedback about my lack of tone from my peers and Professor Cindy, I did not put it into full consideration as my individualist writing mentality from high school carried over into college.

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I am writing to you on the past semester that we 've spent together. I enjoyed taking this class because I think that it helped me improve my writing skills and helped me become a better writer. Before taking this class I didn 't believe to think that I could to be a good writer. But you had a great system with different forms of writings to help conquer me and my fellow classmate’s fears in writing. I enjoyed the short writing assignments the most, because it was entertaining and different.

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Before enrolling into the course of English 111, my writing was primarily based on specific boundaries. For example, I was told that essays needed to be five paragraphs long with five to eight sentences within each paragraph. After my enrollment into this course, I have learned that the stereotype for writing an essay was not as practical as I once had believed, and that the limitations and expectations that were once implemented into my writing were essentially not correct. This course has changed my writing by allowing me to expand into broader topics in papers, such as compare and contrast essays, subject by subject, and point by point papers and outlines. I have learned now to use stronger verbs within my essays, and to open my vocabulary

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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.

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The Latin root of the word ‘Reflection’ refers to the ‘moving back’ or getting or bending back” to something. This bending back is of significant importance in any profession, any task and any practice as suggested by Horwood (1989). Put in very simple words, every time we do something and later stop to think or ponder over what we did, how we did and why we did, consequently also thinking on what were the effects of such doing and if or how it could have been done better, then we are actually engaging ourselves in the process of reflection. Making this a part of our profession so as to bring constant improvement in the quality of our own performance is what we can say is bringing reflection to our practice; hence the term ‘Reflective Practice’ is used.

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The skills and knowledge that I have gained in this course will help me to write better works in the future. I have grown as a more competent and skilled writer over the past semester. I can take what I have learned and not only use it in future college level writing but also in my profession as a nurse. Today, I feel much more prepared to take on a writing assignment. In this class, I have learned several ways to organize my thoughts and ideas and turn them into a well thought out project.

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In college, I still struggle I knew I had to keep working when one of my professors had to tell me to work on my grammar. I went to the writing center and registered on North Star, a grammar website. I am still working on my grammar so my development continues. I was always able to read and write but being proficient using it is what is

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My sentences still read very choppy although they are much better than when I started this class. This can be ironed out of my writing by spending more time proofreading my papers. The sentence fluency I think will come the more I write, even by my last paper I feel it has improved drastically compared to my first paper. I think I could have been even more successful in this class if I had spent more time out of class proofreading and using my time better while I was in class. I feel that I have grown more than I originally planned on because this class involved us more in the first quarter.

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A nurse needs to have good grammar in order to be well understood by others if you use slang while writing maybe a patient will not understand what you’re trying to say. Also when it comes to speaking in my profession you need to sound very professional otherwise it would sound as if you have no knowledge of what you’re speaking of whatsoever. When speaking to a patient you need to sound very professional and find the right words watch the audience your speaking to because not everyone understands the same way. Also editing skills are important because if you don’t write properly then a patient or the doctor will not be able to comprehend what it says so write out the whole word don’t leave it half way not everyone understands that. Use proper grammar at all times that way you will always have the right communication

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Actually, if I’m being honest, my family sucks at writing. I was never placed in any special writing classes, but only the standard classes for school. I joined Intermediate composition to excel in my writing for my future. From this class, I’ve broadened my vocabulary and found new ways to check my pieces that I have wrote. I could always use more work with grammar because I have always struggled with that concept.

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