English 111 Reflection

In my persuasive essay on “The Star” I have a few things I need to work on to improve my writing. As well as a few things I did well throughout my essay. In order to better myself as a writer I would need to work on my run-on sentences, learn how to not be repetitive, and learn how to properly punctuate my sentences. I had a few run-on sentences and I was very repetitive throughout my essay. Although I had a few mistakes I improved my writing a lot on this particular essay. This time I did very well on my thesis statement. My thesis statement supported my entire essay and I had strong topic sentences that supported my thesis statement. I did not leave my readers clueless to what my argument was. Overall my paper was good I just had a good amount

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

I started writing my essay by thinking about the obstacles that I had encountered in life. In my essay, I wrote about how I was struggling in the AP U.S. History class. The most challenging part of writing my essay is how to organize the essay. It is very difficult to decide which moment to include in the essay. I wanted to focus on the AP U.S. History story, but I also believed that it was important to talk about the struggles that I had to face when my family immigrated to Chicago. The least challenging part of writing my essay is coming up with the similes and metaphors because I often used them in my writing, so they just came naturally in my head. The feedbacks that I received from my peers were very helpful. They helped me fix my grammar

After completing English 1101, I expected English 1102 to be easier. When I started doing the work in the class and taking tests, I realized that the work was a little more challenging. Now that I have finished the second part of this course, I really have grown to like reading and writing. This course is a great course to take because it has given me a lot of knowledge on how to write a great paper, and it taught me there is a lot of things to write about.

During the fall semester I enrolled in an English 111 course to help improve my writing skills. Throughout the semester I was instructed to write four papers, not including this one. The topics for my essays were about; the value of education, victims and creators, a report essay, and last but not least a review essay. Each essay became more challenging than the previous one. As each essay came along, I applied the skills I learned in class and necessary peer evaluations to correct my mistakes so that I could get better at writing.

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.

With this letter, I have enclosed my e-portfolio website link explaining about myself, my resume, and professional philosophy.

Throughout the course of English 16, I have improved my writing. The worksheets and notes provided helps me become a better writer than I was when I first stepped into the classroom. Revising my paper after the second draft or ‘final copy’ helped me better under the process and time that must be in to make a perfect paper. In the course, there were four assignments, a research paper, a research proposal, diagnostic essay and a essay about appearance.

So far in English 1101 I have learned many things. I have learned critical thinking and reading. In this section I learned things like how college will make me successful, how I think college will be challenging, and lastly about the difference between high school and college writing. The next section we did an educational history essay. This essay focused on a topic that in someone's educational past there was a monumental event that changed someone for the better or worse. The following essay we did was the Ad Analysis essay. For this essay we had to find two Ad’s that we found interesting, I compared and contrasted them. Each one of the essay’s was a different type of form. The educational essay was about your life experiences and the Ad Analysis was more factual. From these assignments, I have learned how to be a better writer through peer editing and time management.

In the eight weeks of my English151B class, I have improved my writing skills to write a well-organized and focused essay by avoiding run-ons, fragments, using proper verb tenses, and punctuation marks.

I'm writing this in the hopes that whomever it is that I should contact for help with scheduling may find it. I am not entirely sure if it is currently going to someone whom it may concern as the only counseling email listed is yours. If you are capable of assisting with this plight, please disregard this paragraph, otherwise I ask that you please forward it to whoever will best handle it.

For example, “This is one reason why I think Nature vs Nurture can go hand in hand.” Instead I could have said, “ This is one reason why I think Nature vs Nurture connect with each other.” My difficulties with this essay could easily be fixed. After seeing my results, I needed to work on how to properly state my sentences and making sure they are understood. I believe I was being detailed but too detailed and started to use words that did not go along with the sentence,which reflected in word choice mistakes. The good part about my essay was stating my reasons, contacting and comparing Nature and Nurture. This was good because it broke down the essay in a way where it stated the issue into paragraphs and the logical idea behind

As shown by my portfolio, my writing has progressed in various ways through this quarter. In some of my first writings, such as early journals and test essays, I didn’t use the compelling adjectives that are able to paint pictures in the reader’s head. As a starting point, I used bland adjectives that would not be able to grab the reader’s attention. For a simple example, I used “good” and “better” in my A Raisin in the Sun essay when I could have wrote more effective words, such as “exceptional” and “superior”. Details can build up writing in a substantial matter, and I was not able to grasp this concept at the beginning of the quarter. Further, I rarely utilized transition statements to connect differing topics and ideas. In my first identity essay draft, my paragraphs were choppy and difficult to follow. When introducing new ideas, there has to be a certain shift among them. Without these shifts, my writing went through radical differences through paragraphs. With each draft, I strengthened the flow of my paper by adding a multitude of transitions. Instead of placing transitions only at the beginning and end of paragraphs, I utilized one every few lines. The sentences meshed much smoother this way. Most

This first semester at the University of Akron has flown by. I learned many new writing concepts that helped me become a better writer. English composition was a required class that I had to take in order to get my degree. Although this class was required I still wanted to take this class to become more knowledgeable about writing. Coming into English Composition I was worried about all of the papers and the workload that I would have to complete. I knew that I was going to have to write a lot more than I previously had in highschool, but I was unsure of just how much. The works that I decided to include in my portfolio comprise of my Literacy Narrative, Image Analysis Paper, and essay titled Mayas Hardships based on Maya’s experiences in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I selected these works because I felt that they are the ones that require the most improvement to them. The papers i've chosen show how far I’ve came In English Composition.

I have only been attending Cleveland State University for two semesters, and as this course comes to an end I feel like I grown and learned many techniques more than ever. I came to Cleveland State University with only my high school knowledge on how to format an argumentative essay, and throughout this course I now know how to write and format many other papers. Taking English 100 has taught me how to break down and analyze an article, it taught me how to find confidence in my work, and it helped me grow to an even better writer.