English Reflection

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.

In English 101, I mastered getting to the point of getting to my essays with less disappointment with force; I learned the significant use of scratch paper. For example, I wasn’t always use to writing my essays on scratch paper; however, keeping in mind that the scratch paper was a nondurable tool as I finished my paper, because I knew they would be thrown away. Also, the professor required us to submit our scratch paper along with our essays. With this procedure, I was forced to rewrite my essays. He felt that the scratch paper would be a help to us as we continually to learn how to effectively write our essays.

As I reflect on English Comp II 112, I have a variety of mixed emotions about this. I was unsure of the class at first, for many reasons. My very first day I remember leaving the J off my professor’s name and I just knew it would be a downward spiral after that. To me, writing was something I loved to do but I had a difficult time putting my thoughts into words and organizing my paper. Usually, once I typed my introduction I thought my thoughts would just flow from that point, but they never did. Never the less, I kept striving to have a great paper.

The beginning of the semester my writing was weak. When I got assignments for grammar, punctuation, and sentence style I was satisfactory when I turned them in. When I write my essays and turned them in they were satisfactory. Then the second eight week started then I knew I had to advance my grammar, punctuation and sentence style. I can now reflect back to the beginning and see how much I have advance in my writing. I notice that my strengths are vocabulary and the structure of my essays, and my only weakness is my grammar that I need to work on a lot.

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

In Mrs.Yu’s class I have acquired multiple tips and tricks to write more appealing essays. To make our essays better, our class has learn daily words to improve our vocabulary skills. In addition to learning new words, our class would create a sentence using the word helps us understand the word better to allow use to use them in our own sentences. Some examples of these words include, irresolute, consecrate, escarpment, monolithic, incandescent, and much more. Although our class spend numerous hours perfecting our essays, Mrs.Yu had us research and discover interesting facts about William Shakespeare. To begin our Shakespeare research, I wrote a biography on Shakespeare with the help of my index cards packed with useful information. Soon

I’ve finally finished English 102 with more confidence than I came in with. Any time the word English crosses my mind I think of long essay and multiple writing prompts. Not your standard limited five page essays or writing prompts but unlimited, creative writing with rhetoric and using every appeal necessary. This year I went into English 102 with a goal to become a better writer and be able to use this class with my everyday life and classes. From week one thru three, I didn’t think this was the right class for me because I really couldn’t stay focused in class. I felt like I barely understood the lesson and all I had to do was take test online and do a learning activity for easy points. I never was a good test taker so reading the lesson was pointless to me. As the class went on I later found out that the eBook and learning activity were based on the topics we were supposed to learn. Towards the fifth week, I utilized every assignment that the professor was giving me. I realized that doing those activities helped me get better at writing non limited essay. I was extremely nervous to write my first essay which had to be a research report. I chose to do my essay on nursing and the different fields of it. I have never done a research report before so I was nervous and thought I would get a bad grade on it.

Throughout the 2016-2017 school year I learned many useful writing concepts in Honors English. These items consist of poems, argumentative essays, dystopian short stories and last but not least informational essays. While completing these assignments I learned a few specific items that stood out to me which is why I am choosing to talk about them. These items are “Read a range of poetry, looking for personal connections”, “Set goals for reading stamina and fluency,” and “Engage in discussion with other readers.” I feel that these three points are three of many points that are going to stick with me in my long future. Not to mention they are very important in moving to the next level of the english language, which is why I choose to talk about these learning objectives.

You have been selected to hear all about what I have learned about in English class this semester! I have chosen you because I know of your interest in becoming an author one day, and I think maybe this way you can get an idea of what college writing is like. This year in English 105, I explored several forms of writing. From a personal essay, to a review, a research paper, a rhetorical analysis, a group research project, and a remediation. Through writing these pieces, I have developed my skills in rhetorical knowledge, processes, critical thinking, reading, and composing, and knowledge of conventions. Included with this letter are two pieces of work from the semester that I have chosen to revise. The first is my rhetorical analysis titled Fires in California, and the second is my review of a tea shop titled One Steep at a Time.

English has always been my second least favorite subject. No matter it will always be a subject I don’t like because of all the writing. Since junior year in high school however, I think I have been enjoying it a lot more. Throughout this class I learnt new things, not a lot of new thing, but new important things. I have improved in my use of quotations, something I have struggled with since sophomore year of high school. I still have hiccups from time to time, but that’s just part of the writing process. All the revising made me realize I make a lot of the same mistakes in each paper, so I should work harder to eliminate those mistakes all together. We wrote a lot of things, we revised a lot of things, but the essay I will be talking about are Writing Task B and Essay 1. These two essays mark two different stages in this class and I am going too discuss how I went about writing these and how the final product, in my own opinion, came out.

Taking english at the college level has really opened my eyes. That I must really apply myself to become better in my school work. When I was in high school I would only do what was asked. Nothing more, nothing less because I just wanted to do the bare minimum to get by. Which was about a C or B grade and I was okay with that. However, now in english 105 I have been faced with challenges throughout the course. Consisting of reading, writing and critical thinking, key components in the class to improve on. Practicing them in english class, but also my other classes which has helped. Since entering college I learned that I must not take anything for granted. The teachers are always there, and sometimes provide a teacher assistant to help us. Setting us up for success throughout the semester. In the beginning of the semester I wasn’t applying myself to the fullest, however convincing myself that I could work hard, and pass with the help of my teacher I could accomplish that.

Firstly, your class has taught me many things about English. For example, you taught us the correct way to annotate a text and how to be more clear while trying to say/ write something. Also, you have educated me how to write an article reflection. Additionally, I have learned many different facts about Shakespeare when we did the research on him. In fact, I have also been taught many new words that I would have never heard from the WODs. Also, you taught me not to use be-verbs to make sentences more interesting. Furthermore, you told me the difference of paraphrasing and explaining something. Making connections to the text or article is another lesson you have instilled me this year. I also know how to cite text and provide a concise summary of a text.

As I was searching for the classes that I would have to take for my first semester of college, I was really hoping that English was not one of them. For as long as I can remember English was the one subject that I dreaded. It would immediately put me into a bad mood. So when I found out that I would have to take W131 as a prerequisite for nursing school, I am sure you can imagine my reaction. I was bummed to say the least. It is not that I am terrible at English, I actually do not think that I am that bad. It is simply the fact that it is not as concrete as other subjects that I excel in, such as math or science. There is no right or wrong answer or a set of instructions that I can memorize as to how to write a perfect paper, and that is why I think that it has been so hard for me. So as I was putting this class into my shopping cart for enrollment, I remember hoping that my abilities would be enough and that the four months would go by really fast. Now, as the course is coming to an end and I am reflecting on how the class went for me, I can honestly say that the class was not bad at all, and I have actually improved in many ways.

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

The first three months of this school year was a roller coaster ride. We have several new students with different levels of English proficiency. At first I don’t know how I will cater them or even approach them knowing that having been comfortable with the previous students who are knowledgeable with the language then here comes the new students. They may only be one or few of them in the classroom, but still their presence is still significant in the success of the class. I am blessed to have students who are not only willing to help me but more so to help their friends to be able to learn and understand the things in the classroom. Translators in my room are everywhere. I guess when you give them rules for the first time, it will really