Writing 39 B Class Analysis

To be a part of the academic community one should be able to write professional, academic texts. However, many students, who are just starting their academic career, don’t know the basics of rhetorics and are unable to write successful essays. When I was just admitted to the UCI, I was not skilled in the academic writing myself. Although, while taking Academic English 20 series and Writing 39 series I have begun to learn more about rhetorics and writing elements and it helped me to improve my essays. Writing 39 B class is a very important step in my writing progress. This course has taught me how to analyze academic texts and how to write thoughtful essays on them. I believe these skills would help me to become a better student and after graduation

Before this class I believed that peer review is a waste of time and was not sure how to make this task helpful. Mostly, it was, because the comments I was getting from it were too positive and too vague. Often my peer reviewers were just saying that I am doing a good job and didn’t specify what I need to improve. However, in this class I started to receive and write more concrete reviews and I started to think that this part of the work is, actually, beneficial. I believe that one of the most important things that one can get from a peer review is that they can read the works of their classmates, which are written on the similar topic, so the student can compare these works. Such comparison helps student to find their essay weaknesses and see an example of how they can improve them. For example, “Read, Evaluate, Write: Student Sample RA Essay” exercise was very helpful for me, because by doing it, I was able to see the complete essay, for which student got a B+, before writing my own final draft. So I was able to compare my work with theirs and get some ideas how to improve my own essay. For instance, I notice that the student’s final essay’s thesis sentence was too vague and unclear and decided to improve my own. I have changed my previous thesis sentence from (5 February 2017):” In my essay I would like to explore how Oates by using “innocent:” and “experienced” voices

I try my best to be active in the class discussions. For example, while my group was creating a class Power Point I have found two academic sources, which best illustrated our main ideas, have finished my assigned part of work on time and have helped other group members with editing. During class discussions I try always to be both active speaker and listener. I always share my opinion with the group and I listen and try to understand, when the other people are sharing their ideas. I always come early to the class and I have never been absent, because I don’t want to miss some important information or exercise. However, several times I have submitted my homework late. Once it was because I failed to submit the file correctly and the other time I was sick and went to the doctor and forgot about submitting my work. I know that submitting homework on time is my responsibility and I will try my best to submit all future homework on