English Reflection

English 10 has been one bizarre adventure from formal writing, to poetry, and then to creative writing. In this course, I have learned that there’s always room for improvement in everything I do. As a child, I struggled with writing, as English is my second language. This course has helped me grow in my writing skills, making it an enjoyable experience. Some of the strengths I have discovered in my writing is planning and editing. I tend to plan ahead of time before I write, so I have a clear understanding of what I am going to write. My editing skills are also extremely strong because I often edit to a greater extent than needed. I have come to improve the vocabulary in my essays because as I edit, I replace the weak words in my writing.

As a writer, I am quite sure of myself. I feel that English 101 was a large step in improving and building my skills. Writing is a particular strength of mine, although I struggle when it comes to open-ended prompts. While I can effectively construct an argument, I would consider myself still inexperienced with the writing process. Throughout high school, there were few writing assignments and what I did write was formulaic and lacking substance; giving original ideas or organizing beyond the five paragraph essay is still fresh to me. My teachers would tell us students what to write during a “class discussion” of the literature and afterwards send us to work. Writing outside the basic five-paragraph essay was taboo; each attempt had been met

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.

Reflecting on my english career on all of my english classes as a whole one of the areas of habits of mind that I have not only felt that I am drastically improved, but also believe that is one of my strengths as not only an english student, but a student in general is my strong ability with analyzing situations and responding with high level critical thinking. I have prided myself and also been told by almost every english teacher that I have had that my ability to articulate what I am thinking in a presentation and be able to analyze text, images and people is on a very high level. I am comfortable when speaking in front of people and I believe that some of my best work in High School have been presentations. As I discussed this year with my teacher where I fall short is the ability to translate what I am thinking and how exactly I say it and translate that into writing. This has something that I have struggles with not only this year but most of my life writing essays. I don;t believe that I write poorly, but can very easily recognize that my writing is not at the

Throughout Honors English II, I not only became a more advanced reader, I also became a more experienced writer. All throughout the semester, I learned to analyze works of literature and look for themes in the novels I read, which also helped me to become a more thoughtful writer. I also greatly improved my vocabulary throughout the semester, which helped me achieve more advanced writing and reading skills. Overall, by using new writing techniques and new vocabulary, I was able to build on my previous reading and writing skills, and I hope to see a continuation of advancement in my reading and writing abilities in the years to come.

Being in English 101 plus has helped me grow as a writer, a thinker and it also has been a challenge. My expectations for myself was to get a 4.0, I didn't achieve my goal, but I did try my best. I had previous experience on writing the way we did in class. I learned it in high school, but my grammar has been an obstacle. During this quarter I learned how to structure a sentence, how to be more open-minded and also how to make my writing stand out. This class taught me how to write my view in a more professional way.

Over the course of this semester I have learned many different things in English 101 with Dr. Mary Bell. I have learned about four main things that have helped transform my writing immensely. These four things are: rhetorical awareness, critical thinking, reflection and revision, and conventions. Each of these four things I have learned this year have changed my writing for the better in their own unique way. Through the usage of these different techniques I believe I have grown as a writer.

English IV with Mrs. Parker has been a true seniority experience. Although it was not that much different from any other English class, I have learned many things that are going to help me now and also throughout my life. This class was not easy by any means, but it also was not over strenuous. This class helped me tremendously with my literary skills which will always be beneficial. English IV has been good to me, and also my peers.

During the last semester of my senior year of high school, I enrolled in Tupelo High School's Advanced Placement Dual Credit English IV course. Ultimately, my time in Advanced English provided me with many challenges, but also helped me recognize high points as well as my strengths. These experiences helped mold me into the writer I am today.

When I was signing up for my classes for my senior year, I decided to take English Composition 1 for my final English credit for the sole reason that it takes only half a year to complete. I had been warned by veterans of the course that the class would be difficult. This did not bother me too much, as taking AP Physics my junior year taught me that I work harder in an environment with rigorous work. During the course, I was delighted when I discovered that the class has heavily improved my essay writing skills throughout the year. Each consecutive essay had improved my writing for the better.

My entire time while in English 101, I had learned a variety of things about the subject and myself. I learned I had many strengths and weakness, also likes and dislikes of the course overall. For me the course overall was very interesting and influencing. I learned that I can write papers with many different topics, and they will come out good if and only I follow all directions given to me. I love to follow directions so that for me wasn’t such a big issue. A weakness I had was, not knowing how to properly find a source and cite it correctly. I always had a hard time looking for the publisher and the date any document was published. With having this weakness, I learned that I should always look everywhere for information on a document, most

“A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back” - Kate Reardon. This was my first year having an english class in HBU and I was quite surprised. I expected the class to be very tough with at least a million essy’s,but it wasn’t at all that I saw it to be. English class was more of an averaged pace class with a good amount of time to get assignments done. My expectations for english class included a lot of stress and essays almost everyday, but to my surprise the class was a little more lax.

The topic of my English 1101 class this semester was “American Murder” which, to me, is as interesting as an English class gets. The only downside was its integration of forcing students to participate in WOVEN communication. In fact, the whole goal of the course was to turn students into better multimodal communicators; the secondary goal was to enhance our knowledge on murder in America. I hated that, I wanted to learn more about murder in America, not do stuff that triggered my social anxiety. What I absolutely hated the most, however, was the fact that this class was actually useful. Using multimodal communication actually makes sense and could just be that difference between a “meh” performance and an incredibly amazing one. That being said, I do struggle with some of the concepts of multimodal communication. I struggle with all of them but I do struggle with one way more than I struggle with the others because social settings give me anxiety. Given this information, it wouldn’t surprise you to know, that I, Alessandria Holley, am a pretty bad oral communicator.

In my essay there wasn’t a drastic changed throughout my essay. There are small changes that needed to be done. Some of the changes I made were spelling errors and really word choice. I sometimes forget how to spell certain words at times, so I had to made those changes. My word choice is good, but it could be improved and stronger. I had try to use stronger word choice throughout the essay to make it flow better and sound proper. I may have to look up AP words that would help improve my vocabulary and make my essay stronger. The reason I had chosen the adversity paper is because it’s one of the few high scores that I had obtained in the class. Since writing essays are not my strong point, this paper is one of the few that I receive

Hello, I’m Emma Cortina, I go by she, and you can call me Emma. I am very excited to be in your class this year and hope to learn as much as I can about reading and writing.