Analyzing My Self Reflective Essay

At first I was not sure what I should put, but then when I starting thinking about it, it came pretty easily. However I did have a difficult time thinking about what I can’t change because I try not to focus on that.

In WR 121 this term the teacher teaches many things such as summary articles, evaluation, and response essays or articles, but the most challenging is writing a response essay. I realize that the writing process is similar playing tennis process. In research essays, students are required to do a lot of research papers to find important, credible and important sources that could be responsive to my topic. Students researched many subjects, and I felt interesting to respond to other author's ideas. Before students answered the ideas of the authors, they spend the time to research many articles, and then they chose credible and important information to put it in my essay. It was my problems because I didn't do well about connecting information together, and

Assessing my work is rather easy for me. I am extremely self-critical, to the point, it difficult to be positive. I always hoped and had been told I write well, especially on the job. In this short amount of time during class, I have learned how “low-level” my writing truly is. I write on more of an eighth-grade level instead of at the high school or college level I want to. I have probably forgotten more grammar/punctuation than most people I deal with even know. My grammar/punctuation is laughable; I only remember the easy stuff. Even though I use the thesaurus regularly to improve my vocabulary, my memory seems not to retain it.

Writing has been a challenge for me. After reading the feedback you gave me for my essays, I realized how bad my writing was. While reading my journal, I found the following note: “I was able to summarize and to point out the main ideas of what the authors were trying to say”. Obviously, I did not know how to incorporate those ideas to my argument. Analyzing the articles I was reading and using evidence to support my argument was an issue as well. I struggled with the structure & organization of my essays and making my paper longer. My paragraphs were disconnected, and I had trouble establishing my thesis. I had lot of work to do so that my portfolio revision could be at least, acceptable. To write a better essay, I had to understand what the authors were trying to say and the only way I could understand these articles was by annotating. We talked about this technique in class at the beginning of the semester. And to be honest, I did not use it until now. My first attempt of writing the conversation paper was a complete disaster. My writing was confusing, and my ideas were vague. How could I write a good paper if I had no idea what the authors were trying to say?

This year taking English 1102 has changed my entire persona on writing. Writing is more than just putting words on paper and turning it in, but to understand what I am writing and what my topic is about. This semester English was one of the toughest time I have had in a writing class. There were a lot of things I could have done better to make this semester easier, but I did learn a lot this semester in 1102 and hope to one day pass on what I have learned.

I believe my writing has improved to a certain degree. As look, at where I first started. I have to say that, this course has really been a challenge for me. My time management has been completely off, however, I know that working on written assignments requires time. If there is something that I need to improve on, in order to further my writing abilities, it's definitely understanding the time is takes to write an essay, how to prepare and organized my assignments. I look at new ways now to organize my drafts, thoughts and the whole writing process itself. Brainstorming has definitely been beneficial as well as using bullet points to break down my essay. I notice that I tend to over write my paragraphs. A classmate of mine had suggested

When we hear the word, literature, the first thing that comes to mind is Shakespeare, lectures, and books as thick as your face. However, why is it that only works labeled as “serious” or “complex” are truly considered as literature? It is safe to say there are other works with just as much literary value as the pieces regularly flung at us on our ever-changing day to day basis. The literary canon is a reflection of cultural origin, constantly evolving as a result of political and social changes (Abcarian, Klotz, and Cohen 4). Literature has no concrete format and is the most dynamic part of society; to try and define literature could be quite vexing. It is difficult, not only for the language-teacher, but for even the most widely read literary

Preparation is the key to effectively writing an essay. At least that was what I have always believed. In actuality, the key to writing an effective essay is being open-minded, and a critical thinker. I always believed that I was an open-minded, and a critical thinker, until attending English 49. This semester, I realized that it is hard for me to accept new ideas and concepts. For the writing reflection, I will explain the issues I had accepting criticism, and new ideas while writing the first to essays; and how I was able to fix my problems by the third essay.

I went to a school called Milton Hershey School located in Hershey, PA. Milton Hershey School is a private/boarding school. High school experiences for me included writing a research paper, personal statement and writing about my hero. My strength in the writing program was that I spent time on it and put in a lot of knowledge into it. Students were required to do presentations/essays and present to the class very often. They wanted us to practice our public speaking. I would say this is why I am very good at public speaking and speaking in general.

It was once said by Colin Powell that “ there are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure”. Avid has given me the base I need to succeed in high school . I believe that avid has helped me a lot through my freshman year of high school. To begin avid has helped me by keeping me organized and staying on track . Next avid has taught me how to work through challenging problems that I had in school . Finally avid has helped push me to go a college in the near future . Avid has demonstrated to me that I can and will succeed through high school .

Over the course of this summer as a CIT at RISE camp I have used this experience to identify many skills that would be advantageous as a counselor.

With what knowledge I have about writing, I feel like it needs improvement. I feel like I am so far behind with the knowledge of writing from other people. When I have a subject to write about I end up drawing a blank on how I should start out the paragraph. I will over think everything to where it gets to the point that I get so frustrated that I just want to quit.

In this essay I’m sharing with you some of the struggles I endured as a teenager and I explain how I learned from a lot of the mistakes I made.

Before this semester, my essay writing would have been considered rather poor. This was because I did not understand the various components of a properly written and accompany them to effectively communicate my ideas. I lacked the most in keeping the audience involved hence, catching and maintaining their attention, to my writing from the introduction to the conclusion. To me, writing was more complicated than a speech since a speech involved direct audience who the speaker can gauge their feelings. I took writing as a difficult task since it involved indirect audience and ensuring that I meet the demands of such indirect audience, brought more confusion. Though the case, this past semester’s class has really improved my skills in writing. I have learned to to make an effective written piece. Through the various learning experiences such as individual readings, professional feedback and many others, I have been able to interact with diverse knowledge sources which have made me much better by removing the confusion and negative picture I had with regard to writing.

During the course of the quarter, I feel that I have progressed somewhat. I've gained a lot of knowledge on rhetorical strategies and how to present arguments effectively. In the writings I have written, I feel that each writing works towards meeting the course goals. Logos, ethos, and pathos were strategies and ideas we were introduced to (if not already in the past) and were built upon throughout the quarter. The knowledge gained over the course of the quarter weren't only those three types of appeals. Rhetorical strategies like proposals helped reinforce the course and using rhetorical analysis in different situations have become easier throughout the quarter. I believe that I have made sufficient progress towards becoming a better