English 1101 Reflection

The primary aim of English 1101 is to prepare the student to effectively communicate, and identify or create new knowledge in various spheres of life. English 1101 assisted me to have control over the writing conventions through extensive writing practice or reading, guided by evaluations and feedbacks from my course instructor. The course contains several topics namely; effective writing processes, rhetorical organizations methods, academic writing formats and styles, critical reading skills, researching, and citing the researched sources.

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.

I intend on acing English 1102 online. Prior to this course, I was home schooled for three and a half years, and many of my classes were online. One of the online programs I used was Florida Virtual. Additionally, I have completed three online college courses—including English 1101. Because I have engaged in online schooling, I have established the skills necessary to devote myself not only to a physical classroom, but also to online environment. In the beginning, being self-motivated was difficult. I transitioned from a public middle school to a self-disciplined online program. My busy mother could do little to help me be accountable for my school work. As time progressed, I wormed myself into a pit of unfinished assignments. My parents stepped

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.

From an early age I have been passionate about reading. Like seriously, when I was five years old I was upset that I didn’t get the newest Little Mermaid book for Christmas. However, I have never had an interest in writing. Unfortunately, as I plan to go to graduate school to obtain my Ph.D, I really cannot avoid it. Over the years, my lack of enthusiasm about writing has caused me to view most English classes as a chore, something I needed to do in order to advance to what I really wanted to do with my life. With the risk of sounding like a suck-up, this is one of the first English classes I have valued because I have felt like I improved some aspect of my writing in each essay.

My goals for this semester in English 1102 is to be a better critical thinker, acquire stronger communication skills in a written format and to be able to better comprehend written work. I feel I am a better at communicating verbally than I am as a writer. I am very hopeful in increasing my “critical thinking skills and increased stylistic sophistication” (Francis, Ann). By being able to achieve these goals, I feel it will help me be a better caregiver to my patients. I am working towards my Nursing Degree and I know how important written communication is as much as oral communication. My long term goal in a nursing career is to work with geriatric patients, particularly onset Dementia patients and Alzheimer’s patients. University of North

Usually, college writing differs from high school writing since; research is required to back up what the writer is discussing. In fact, students in high school can turn in an essay without having to do much research. Rather than, in college where it is best to go to the library to gather information about the essay topic. Straightaway, writers will be introduced to many resources that will be useful to create a complete essay, books, magazines, articles, and computers are offered as resources here. After all, it is helpful to gather bits of information to use put together a final fluent message to the reader. In contrast, college writing is more than just having good sentences and good grammar, Although, it does

I aspire to attend college and earn a degree in English with the intention to become a book editor. Accordingly, throughout junior high and high school, I took the highest level English courses available to me and ultimately earned an A every year. Although it felt nice to achieve terrific grades, I knew that these English classes were not challenging me to become a better writer; this pattern of easy courses continued until my junior year of high school when I decided to take college Composition 1. In contrast to other English classes, Composition was capable of teaching me valuable skills such as how to manage my time and work with others, along with other aspects of writing such as grammar and organization, and thus has effectively challenged me to grow as a writer from passable to remarkable, which will enable me to become an English major in the near future as opposed to other English courses that merely maintain my knowledge of writing.

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary

Throughout my time writing at the City College of New York, I experienced a slow and dramatic transition to my first semester of this college course. During that time, I've learned from several feedback and lessons from certain peers and my professor. Because of the strict comments written in my drafts by my professor, a few helpful suggestions to include in my writing, and a few miserably failures, I was able to see how my writing and habits have changed during the duration of this course. Back in high school, I was always comfortable writing only five paragraph essays (Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion), but I've never expected to write something more complex. Here, I was encouraged to include as much detail as I can instead of writing something vague

Writing has always been my greatest weakness throughout the years that i have been in school. Since I’am a foreign, learning a language was a challenging especially when my native language is completely different than English. Even though my communication skills have been improved dramatically since I have been here in the United States, writing is the only skill that i need to improve. I have signed up to take English 110C for mainly two reason. The first reason is that it is a mandatory course for all incoming freshmen to be eligible to graduate. The second reason is that it will help me improve my writing skills that i will need throughout my college years and the future. Throughout the semester, I have written a plethora of essays such as a rhetorical analysis, comparative review, annotated bibliography, exploratory, and an argumentative essay. Since it is my first time writing these types of essays, I struggled at first trying to figure out how to start the essays; however, our professor assisted us and showed us sample essays that help us write our essays. I’ am very thankful that i managed to take this course because i have learned a numerous of writing skills that will help me throughout my college years.

In English 111, I have struggled with many assignments over the course of the semester, correcting myself 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. College classes 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.

In my previous English courses, I had no knowledge of writing an essay, or even a proper sentence. Writing did not seem like anything important in my life, or that it would affect me anyway in the future. I had despised my own writing and loathed having to write essays for any of my classes. When I had enrolled in Composition I, I had no idea what I was going to do to pass. However, in class, we had done collaborative work, which had helped me progress myself. Collaborative work had consisted of multiple students helping each other, sharing ideas, and peer-reviews. This was a change of pace for me since I had not done that before. In previous classes, I had done individual work, which was solely myself correcting and working on my work. Between collaborative work and individual work, I enjoyed working with partners and sharing each other's experiences to benefit ourselves. Over this class I have developed my writing skills, learned from my previous mistakes, and understood the writing process.

College is a place I have been expected to go after high school my entire life. With the pressure increasing and the time flying under my feet on June 10’th I decided to sign up for a writing class at Bellevue college to help me write my college essays. My journey to Bellevue College is not the conventional one, yet a stepping stone in my life to help go to college when I graduate high school.

In going from a basic language arts class to a college language arts class it’s a whole new perspective. In deciding to take this course I’ve had many positive as well as negative things I have noticed in my writing. The very first essay we had I scored fairly average for it being the first essay of the class. It had lacked many elements such as essay content, word choice, as well as grammar and mechanics. An example from that essay would be ”Which holds the reader at