English Writing Class Analysis

Throughout the progression of this course I learned countless things concerning my writing. {Simkin, M. G., Crews, J. M., & Groves, M. J. (2012). While it’s there’s a many amounts of things ‘ve learned throughout the course, there are several things I‘ve learned which include the step by step process, including the correct usage of grammar and properly proofreading my work before I turn it in. I found out i had a major problem with my punctuation usage and insufficient when it came my periods and commas. I’ve invested some time writing through grammarly and other helpful sites to improve my writing skills. I appreciate the assistance and help I received from Mrs. C

Throughout middle school my classes were all the same, I showed up, learned, received my assignments, and left. There was one class that was different; it was my Language Arts class. The teacher’s name was Mrs. Lorentsen and she was not the average teacher. For example, in her class we rarely had lectures and I can remember vividly my adventures with her. We completed assignments that were called Independent Study Projects (ISPs), Common Place Books (CPBs), and completed 3D book reports. These are all different ways of presenting information through creativity and problem solving. These foreign type assignments seemed strange at first, as they are different from a traditional classroom setting. I quickly adjusted to her classroom, and learned that I enjoyed this style of learning. Throughout the class Mrs. Lorentsen and I both noticed a commonality in my writing. Putting my thoughts and opinions on paper became a struggle for me.

Throughout my years of being a student I’ve written several pieces for several different classes, some I may flaunt just a bit while with other pieces I try to just turn in, get a grade, and then hide in the back of a folder in order to keep others from seeing the slightly subpar work I may have produced. While I always do try to write eloquently there has always been that one assignment in that one class in which I just try my hardest to get a good grade rather than write something I’m particularly proud of. For example, last year for AP World History I produced a well formatted, well researched paper on the Guatemalan genocide. While it was written properly I feel as though I could have provided more depth and insight on the topic being

Writing is a form of art. Just as an artist paints an image to convey some sort of deeper meaning hidden beneath the surface, a writer creates a portrait through words and structure to communicate the same sort of meaning. Writing, however, follows some sort of specific guidelines and the parameters become slimmer and more defined as you get older and more experienced. I learned the basics of writing in elementary school. Back then, it was more enjoyable and seemed to allow more room for creativity. Simple, broad topics such as describing how your Thanksgiving break went were common and allowed you to write basically whatever you wanted and in whatever form you chose. Boundaries to my writing became solidified in high school. During those four years, I learned proper sentence structure, how to compose a five paragraph essay, and all the restrictions that came along with upper-level writing. I began losing interest in writing, thinking that it would only become more

During this English class have learned a ton of new material. English and writing have always been one of my major struggles in school. While in high school I thought I had been taught everything in English material that I would need in life. I was totally wrong. Before learning in this class, I would just start writing. I really did not know how to plan a paper. Since this class, I can now plan a paper using an organized outline to write it.

As a college student writing is something that I have trouble doing. After struggling through high school with the same issues, I told myself that I was going to improve my writing skill one way or another. The three main things that I should focus on in order to get my writing skills to part are: 1. outlining, I always over look outlining because I hate to break writing down. 2. Finding someone to look over my paper, sometimes the idea of asking people to look at your writing and see if they find mistakes is hard. Criticism can be hard on you at times. 3. Do a more thorough search of my topic, usually when I research information I just get the first information that I find, but I should get deeper in my searches then I currently do. I think that these three things have not affected my communication, but

I have always enjoyed English classes during my years in middle and high school, and throughout college I have taken a good number of them by choice. Even so, American Literature Post Civil War has taught me much more than I was expecting. I was required to read things I would not normally read and to interpret them in ways I hadn’t expected. It was, in some ways, more educational than my previous required English courses. There were a few specific instances where I learned aspects of writing and literature that were very impactful to my college and life experience, such as proper formatting for body paragraphs and their subsequent quotes, certain words that carried allusions to other texts when in literature,

Growing up we are told that high school will prepare us for college. However, some students, including myself, lacked the skills to be successful in their classes. In high school we are given satisfactory grades for turning in a completed essay. On the other hand, turning in a completed essay will not give you a passing grade if it does not include all the essentials to an efficient essay. Writing is not only done in school, but it is also used in everyday life. After taking English 101, I noticed an improvement throughout my writing and developed the missing pieces to good writing habits such as brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising.

The second week of our English Composition class, we talked about American Identity and what influence immigration has on it. Since I am an international student from Germany studying at an American university, Joel L. Swerdlow’s report about a day at the J.E.B. Stuart High School in West Virginia, which is, according to him, mirroring the immigration revolution, made me rethink my actual life situation.

I needed to fill up my schedule and for the 2nd year in a row I tried to sign up for the coaching and sports class. However, for the 2nd year in a row, I wasn’t able to get into the coaching and sports class. The counselor randomly assigned me to creative writing. I didn’t pick creative writing because I was in the honor’s English class, and I knew I would be doing enough writing in that class alone. I entered your classroom with a high school attitude of thinking I was too good for where I was at. My attitude was that this class would be a blow off and that I could breeze through this semester. I was wrong, but it turned out to be in the best way. I’ve had you as an English teacher before, but in creative writing you provided me with freedom.

Foundations of College Writing is a class that will require most of the work to be done outside of school, which is what I’ve learned over the last four weeks here at Bloomsburg University. My other classes require studying, and a lot of reading outside of class which is expected being college leveled courses. Foundations of College Writing however requires a lot of creativity, and busy work rather than the memorization of information. With that being said, this class is a totally new style that I have little experience with that could help me succeed. However, with the assignments being almost systematically designed to either make you think about the world, or to be personable with the content, I believe the work spent outside of school will be well worth it.

This fall semester was an exciting and interesting days to me. I was little nervous coming to this fall semester, even though I was happy to be in college after my high school graduation this year. The transition between high school and college was big, I changed my whole life system. I learned how to maintain the time and even changed my learning style from the high school in order to be successful in college. In this transition between high school to college, English 1301 helped me a lot. This semester in this online course I learned what it takes to be a good college student. Especially in this English class I improved my reading skills, writing skills and analyzing skills.

I think that semester one went pretty well for me. I did all of my homework, and turned most of it on time. One of the things that I regret about the first semester was not studying enough for tests. I could have gotten a better grade in my algebra class if I had just studied more for the semester test, and payed more attention in class those last weeks. I probably could have done better on my English semester test too. I got a high B on it, but it would have been nice to get an A. All of my other classes I was very proud of myself, and how I did.

When I look back at the semester for English class. I feel tremendous. It wasn’t what I thought it would be. Which was boring and dead. However, boy was I wrong, it was far from that. Although, I should have done a lot better in class. My grades to be more specific. My essays are what should have been a lot better. I should have taken every chance to go into tutoring services which to is the English corner, as well as asking for help. Whether it be with peer editing of just asking my professor simple questions. For example, what grammar mistakes are common in my essay, or a better way to write down my thesis.

When I first entered this class I was not expecting this class to be fun at all. Just graduating from high school and being told that college would be a lot harder than high school, I was expecting the full college experience, in which this class would be boring and full of college work. This class managed to help me see that reading/English class does not always have to be boring and full of essays written about boring books that no one actually read. I have always loved reading and this class just helped me learn how to help others love it too. From the survey I took at the beginning of this year I have not really changed at all, but the way I view things and how I will execute things has changed.