Querrida Johnson
Ms. Vanessa Ruiz
English 101
04/21/2018
Reflective Essay Wow!! The Things I have learned this semester
Dear Professor Ruiz,
I never thought that after graduating high school and waiting over 13 years to enroll in college that writing would be such a big challenge for me. Writing is something that has always been an issue in my life. I do enjoy writing as long as it’s not academic such as research papers. If I have to write about an event in my life or tell a story I get interested, I’m up for it. I’ve always been the one to listen while someone else may be rereading a paper that was written and give my feedback on what may need to be corrected. Growing up I was always motivated to read
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Usually my strengths are outweighed by my weaknesses. Things I really struggle with are things like grammar and MLA format so when it comes time to write I could have great content that is really interesting but my grade is squashed by sentence fragments and mechanical errors. I use to think “ If I haven’t got it by now I might as well forget about it.” From what I have learned this semester and with a little more practice I could overcome all of those issues and could really develop my writing. In most of my papers I mainly focus on the content. I feel I have had a very interesting life, though I am only 31years old I feel I have experienced and seen a lot of things. I always have an interesting topic as soon as a project is assigned, which could also be one of my flaws. If I sat and thought about the assignment a little longer maybe I could have found better topics or subjects for some of my essays, especially the research paper. The very first paper of the semester, the thesis paper, was my weakest. Growing up in public school the teachers didn’t seem to put too much emphasis on things such as grammar and MLA format and citation. So when it came time to write this paper I had to learn how to write it correctly and really focus on the citation and format, it was too much. Also research is very time consuming and none of that time was enjoyable. I constantly just wanted to put it off another day, until it was due and what I had in front of me was not the quality I was looking