Assignment 1 Self-Analysis

I now know that I am capable of writing anything I set my mind to, before I used to struggle coming up with a topic to write about and now the topics are quick to come up with which is great because it means less time being wasted doing absolutely nothing when most classmates are already on their final draft. What I thought about reading before entering college and what I think now about reading is still the same, I still don’t enjoy reading as much as I should in order to succeed in college. Strategies that i’ve learned and improved in writing are many, as

I am confident that my creativity, communication, and organization skills will benefit Towson’s residential community. Being creative breaks monotony and can make things interesting for everyone involved. Communications skills are important to have for this position since I will be working with residents and other RAs on a daily basis. Having transferred from two other schools, I have met many people and experienced many different things, which I believe makes me more relatable than just your average person. Being organized and detail-oriented makes working with me simple and reduces stress for everyone. Due to my positive and empathetic personality, I am an easy person to talk to and get along with.

Starting my ENG101 class, I felt like it was the basics of learning grammar and English material from high school. However, I quickly learned that I needed to brush-up on some of my writing skills. I acquired skills of the past, as well as some new ones. Writing may still be slightly confusing to me when using correct punctuation, run-on sentences, and organizing my thoughts. Learning to use an outline, create a topic to answer questions, and brainstorming has taught me to become a better writer.

Prompt: Men and women face equal pressure to change their bodies to look good – I don’t agree!

As for college so far this year, my writing has improved. English 101 has taught me more about developing my papers than what I previously knew about writing. Revision is an important part when finalizing any of my papers. As I wrap up writing each essay, going back over it to make sure that it all the readers will understand the point of the paper. As this semester comes to an end, I am able to gain insight of structure through the significance of the PIE format, more organized ideas, and rereading sentences with correct use of grammar.

I have never been an excellent student and perennially struggled with English, Math, and Science growing up. These subjects would cast a pall over my day and school work. Anxiety would well up inside of me which often resulted with me passed out across my desk sleeping through parts of class. When I would return home at day’s end, I rarely completed my homework. When I did try to complete homework, it often ended in tears of frustration or the hurling of a book across the room. Taking this class has helped to quell a portion of that anxiety and frustration. It was a grueling class, seemingly impossible at times, but taking this class has given me the confidence to know that not only can I finish the class if I work hard but can also excel! Writing is something that I will exercise throughout my college curriculum and my life. It will help to convey my ideas to the instructor, peers, bosses, and co-workers. In my college curriculum, it will also show my instructors that I’m learning the information provided and how to apply that knowledge appropriately. It will allow me to complete assignments, discussions, and reports, and I will also apply writing in basic communication when necessary.

This semester was my very first semester as a college student. Being the first, it was probably the semester I would learn the most in. I learned the expectations for writing that I will have to live up to for the next four years of my college career. Though my high school teachers were usually demanding because I was in the Honors English section throughout high school, writing in college has still ?raised the bar? for me. Also, in high school, we would have weeks to pick a topic, create a thesis, outline the paper, write the paper, and then revise the paper. In college, the time restraints are not quite as lenient. I?ve had to learn to manage my time and be more productive with what free moments I

1.4) Do some online research to find information on several businesses that have benefited from implementing unified communications. Write a short paper describing how/why they are using unified communications and the business benefits that they have realized ?

I heard that you are struggling with the academic demands of college so I thought I would give you some advice that has helped me in my college career so far! First off, I have recently discovered that rereading is not the best study method. When I talk about rereading, I am talking about when you try to look over your textbooks and notes over and over again in hopes that you will retain just enough of the information to ace that test you’ve been worrying about. Well, study shows that rereading does not promote learning; when you continue to read the same text over and over again you do not actually gain any long term memory. You may be able to remember certain points from the text, but you won’t remember it for long. This is especially relevant

What can I say, I am shocked that I have made it this far. With so much going on at work, home and college. I fell behind the first two weeks, because I was questioning why am, doing English I hate it so much. I thought to myself let me push the English class until the end. There is no way I will catch up with the course work. Talk to my wife, and she is a writing genius. She said babe you can do this, how are you so good at math, and hate English. So I buckled down, cannot let the wife see me sweat. Funning thing is once I start reading all the weekly assignments and instruction there, everything started to make sense. I found all my weakness in my writing one of my main issue being Slang/Jargon. One item I can put in my tool box is the writing

I have also realized that there are going to be many times you have to scrap ideas and start over. This semester I have realized that I try and perfect my assignments too much to where I start to crunch on time because it wasn’t to my expectation and I started over to many times, that there is in fact a way that too much thought can be put into a paper to where it becomes cluttered. The biggest growth I’ve seen over this semester is overall just my writing in general. At the beginning, my writing was very basic. My sentences were all around the same size and it was just not at the level of writing I would have liked it to be. The biggest thing that helped me with this over the semester would be just reading and editing mine as well as other peers’ papers. Towards the end of the semester it became easier to write, whether it was a personal, research, or

By the sound of how close I am to post-secondary education just from the course name, I can sense the amount of reading and essay writing I must go through in the fast approaching future. Now is the perfect time to work on these skills by giving it my all so that I will breeze through the rest of my years of education fairly quickly. I think this will positively impact me because the main reason I create negative realities of reading and writing will be dealt with, leaving me with nothing but the reasons to create my future into something I can enjoy

Throughout this semester there are many skills that I have noticed have improved through the constant writing of essays for this class. The one that I find most noticeable is a habit I had long struggled with which was essentially my tendency to be over necessarily wordy when writing my essays. I believe that I was able to somewhat fix this subconsciously, just by knowing that I was no longer in high school, and could no longer get by with just attempting to fill up my word count. I also believe I have greatly improved in my topic selection. In high school I would throw caution to the wind and just pick whatever topic came to mind just in an effort to get it done. I have been much more calculated in college, and I believe that it has helped me write better essays. While these were the

My personal analysis of performing exercises for one week was amazing! I was very surprised how fast our heart beat rate is. It was unique how sometimes my heart beat rate would increase or decrease throughout the week while the exercises were being done. The first two days I went a little slow, then my speed and heart beat rate sometimes increased I actually enjoyed the workouts I did for all three different categories. The only thing I need to improve myself on is while exercising, I should extend the time more longer. Also, I want to bet the time that I had while running. I want to do my stretches for a longer period of time.

At the beginning of this class I was nervous on how this semester will go and whether or not I will succeed to my fullest potential in English. With that in my mind I still was trying my best to work at getting better, despite how much it made me cringe at the thought of it. My perspective of writing began to change as time went on, the assignments were based on interesting topics which made it a bit bearable for me. I’ve learned that you have to make the steps to get to the perfect paper. A paper requires you to brainstorm, make an outline, and writing your rough draft to get that feedback you need before finishing up that final draft. During this class I have also learned where to put my thesis and that I don’t need to have that three point subtopics of what you should talk about. The writing length started getting longer and I was a bit skeptical on how I can get to the word count or what will I talk about within my papers, but I have