Ap English 11 Reflection

English 111 was the first class English class that I have taken since my senior year of high school in 2004. When I first signed up for the class I figured it was going to be a bit difficult with reading assignments, I was not expecting to be writing 3 to 5 papers every other week which I found to be hard at first.

In English 111 I have struggled with many assignments over the course of the semester, picking myself up over time from countless mistakes on papers, to procrastinating on basic class work assignments. Before Fall semester, I had no idea what college would be like, or how hard it could be. Things were not the same as high school; it was different to a point where college seemed a lot harder than it was supposed to be. In English 111, I got the chance to meet new students and different professors that have helped guide me to success throughout the semester.

This portfolio has show my progress in many different ways. The biggest way is my rhetorical knowledge has been increased because of the sources we have had to read especially in this last unit when we had to use the UW database. The scholarly articles and journals pushed my reading and analyzing to the limit, but it really helped me for the future. Because of my ability to analyze the sources well, it has helped me increase my writing, because I have been able to really find good credible quotes to use within my work.

As the Fall 2017 term comes to end, I look back on what I have accomplished in this class. English 102 – Composition II was one of the most challenging and toughest class I have taken at UW-Stout, but feel as though it has helped me to improve my writing skills. Even before the semester started the feeling of anxiety had taken over, as writing has never been my strongest skill, but stayed positive and confident I would be successful. Much to my surprise, my instructor, Michael Critchfield quickly addressed that this class would not be easy and amazingly changed my views of writing throughout the entire semester.

The material that we learned and covered in English 1102 being with an Introductions Discussion week, Critical Reading and Thinking for both Poetry and short stories. We learned that the use of References and Quotation are important. It’s important to Proof Reading to avoid basis errors like grammatical errors, and typos. We than learned about the Processing of Reading, Responding to, and Writing about Literature, Literary Criticism, and Introduction to Research, Developing a topic and gathering resources. I learned how to access GALILEO and GPC Library for online students. Galileo, Heuristic for Research, Research Writing, The process of Annotating.

Ever since I was a child, I never really enjoyed the subject of English. Aside from me considering the subject to be boring my vocabulary always seemed to be lacking compared to my peers, and the time I spent on reading passages and answering questions about those passages was much longer than my classmates’. However, my literacy skills started to slowly develop, and I ended up appreciating English in my junior and senior years of high school.

In my English 111 class, we wrote four essays about various topics. In my portfolio, I will reflect on my writing in my narrative, literary analysis, compare and contrast, and cause and effect essays.

Having completed English 291 at Southern Illinois University, I feel the course has helped me improve as a writer. This course covered a large range work on how to make one’s self a more professional writer. I desire that you appreciate my goal in increasing my skills in writing and communication in order for me to become a valued asset to your organization. This course has helped me learn things that will play an important impact on my skills as a writer.

I have learned a great deal in ENG 110. I would like to summarize several of the key points from the session, including “Ockham’s Razor”, definition and process, writing a thesis statement, setting and reaching goals, and comparing and contrasting. Additional key points I learned from this session include making research relevant, avoiding run-ons, comma splices and fused sentences, the pro mind set and the key points of writing. When writing is best to use simple explanations and to define and explain the process. Goals need to be set and adjustments may need to be made in order to stay on track and reach them; in writing the thesis statement should be supported by the evidence from the paper. Comparing and contrasting presents both sides of an argument and discloses the whole story rather than just part of it. Words should be spelled correctly and if necessary clearly defined. Also

As I have enrolled in the English 908 class for almost 3 months, I learn numerous methods which can help me to write better for essays in the future. From the beginning of the class, I really hated writing essays due to I did not know how to start writing the introduction. Moreover, I did not know how to make all the sentences connect to others which make the essays unappealing to the readers. Another problem that prevents me from writing is finding the interesting ideas to put in the essays. Especially, when my professor required me to write on the topics which I was not interested in, I just did not know how to begin writing on those topics and how to organize them. Moreover, I made quite often of the grammar errors such as comma splices, subject-verb agreements, as well as

In this memo, I have chosen three topics to submit for my research project this semester in English 210.

No matter what, a person is always learning and throughout the course of my senior year, I have learnt more as compared to my rest of high school English class. In AP English class, I have gained the knowledge of English skills and learnt the techniques in depth which will eventually help me throughout my college careers too. I would also say that because of help and the pressure from the teacher I am used to now writing an essays. Now, I do not get frustrated writing any sort of essays. This class has prepared me for the college too.

As someone with a love for words and a talent for writing, I plan on majoring in English. I also wish to double-major in filmmaking, as I would like to screenwrite and eventually direct films. Succeeding in this course is a prerequisite to the creative writing and English courses I will take during my college education. Thus far, this class has taught me how to write persuasively, tie my writing into the overall context, and think critically. The first two skills aid me in reaching whatever audience I desire and asserting myself as a knowledgeable and trustworthy writer. The last item in the list, thinking critically, is necessary and applicable to all aspects of life. Those who can think critically have the strongest arguments, best problem-solving

This semester is coming to an end soon. As I reflect on my work in you English 073 class, I can see very clear how much I have learned and improved as a reader as well as a write since the start of the semester. Being in your class has showed me a very valuable lesson which is how to recognize my strengths and weaknesses and learned from them. During the course of this semester, I was able to engage in several assignments and peer edited few of them. The feedbacks that you gave me helped me a lot because it made me conscious of my mistakes and what I needed to to fix them. In the reading section, my portfolio includes the following, The other Wes Moore assignments intro through chapter 4. In the writing section, the portfolio includes the following, definition, narrative, descriptive

This course has been the most challenging year of English yet, which is fitting because it culminates my last year of high school. In fact, I am writing this piece on my last day of high school. This is one of the last English classes I will ever take. I am not planning on majoring in English in college but I have truly learned to see the beauty of language I use every single day. It may sound cliché, but there is nothing more fulfilling than being able to express myself on paper. Thirteen years of English class (twelve excluding kindergarten) and in one year I finally learned comma placement, how to competently write a paper, and how to use databases which are a college staple. This portfolio is full of papers I have written using the knowledge attained throughout the course. All of the papers in this portfolio are from ENG 112 as it is the second semester. Although I thoroughly enjoyed writing some of the papers in first semester, I believe my skills were used more effectively during the second semester. I had more time to process my writing in the spring semester, which allowed for improved work.