English151b Reflection

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

Throughout the course of English composition 101 I had participated and worked on many different assignments that lead to better understanding and enhance of skills I had already learned in while in high school as well as the learning of new techniques and process in which to imbedded into my writing to make it better. Some of the assignments and in-class activities that lead to this included the several essays I wrote, presentations, actively-reading assignments, and in-class lectures. These assignments and in-class activities led me to better understand how to compare essays, use and develop a writing process that work efficiently for myself, better organize essays, learning to use grammar and punctuation better, identify creatable sources to use in papers, to read critically through another person work, and citing sources using MLA format. Although I had already learned the basics of many of these learning objectives throughout my high school education this course helped better enhance these skills and better prefect my writing for the future courses and careers.

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

English IV is a very exciting class. You do a lot of work in there but when it comes down to it it’s worth it. You right about everything you read in the class so you have to pay close attention to what you reading. You have some projects but when you do them, they are very fun. I’m going to tell you what i did in english IV in these next paragraphs.

While registering for a college-level course, last year, I questioned how difficult the class would be. I had taken a course the previous semester that had covered the basics in business and economy, yet this would be the first course in English—a topic that I had been told, on many occasions, that I excelled in. Because of this, I came into this year’s English class confident and sure that I would receive top marks easily. Unfortunately, it was not so. I struggled through several of the assignments given to me, yet I learned several new techniques and gained insight in what a college-level essay truly consists of. Because of this class, I learned of the importance of transitions between points, the importance of reducing wordiness in sentences, and the importance of explaining information and quotations fully.

Personally, I have always loved English classes, but no other instructor has taught me the true meaning of the subject the way Dr. Teller has. I glance back at my first minor assignment and I read my main goals for the course of English 1. I am proud to say I have accomplished my missions with the help of Dr. Teller and his “survival guide” I can say I survived English 1. My greatest worry was the works cited pages because I never understood the importance in giving credit to the authors. In addition, I was never able to get the works cited page correctly formatted. The books assigned for this course helped me on my journey, especially “The Little Seagull Handbook.” One of my missions was wanting to learn how to organize my thoughts

This past semester, was my first semester back in school after my two year vacation following high school. When I walked into English 101 the first day I was a little bit nervous; I was worried that I had forgotten everything, and english was never my strong point to begin with. I Immediately felt a sense of relief after a couple weeks passed and I got my gears turning again. We would go over all of the basic elements of a good piece of writing, try to identify them ourselves, and then discuss our opinions with other classmates. This really helped refresh me on all of the forgotten writing skills I learned in K-12.

At the beginning of the semester I was introduced to a lot of new things, This was an adventure I could have never imagined. I was finally living in a new place on my own. It was a lot to take in and handle. Not only a new environment but a new work ethic. As I attended my first day of class English 101 presented itself to be first. Meeting Ms.Schore not knowing what to expect was nerve wrecking. I quickly learned that this was a pretty straight forward class with a repetitive goal of producing essays over a period time to a given prompt.

Your class has taught me many things. 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 taught me how to write an article reflection. Additionally, I have learned many different facts about Shakespeare when we did the research on him. 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 thing that you have taught me this year. I also know how to cite text and provide a concise summary of a text.

My high school and middle school experience might have been different from others. My experience contained less writing and more vocabulary and story elements in books and film. I predicted that English 101 would have more lessons of grammar and strategies to increase length of writing assignments. For what I have experienced in this class, grammar and spelling is taught through writing assignments by having the student learn from his/her mistakes after each assignment. Although I was not prepared for the amount of writing this class assigned. The assignment I was most prepared for was the Refutation essay. I believe I have done a better job because of some tips my friend gave me about the outline process. The assignment I was least prepared for was the advertisement analysis essay. I have always been terrible with “reading between the lines” for photographs and videos. Although the concept of that made the advertisement assignment the most difficult, the most difficult concept of this class was reaching the minimum length required for the essay. This was difficult because of my limited experience in writing a four-page paper. To help write my essay, my friend gave me a tip she learned from her teacher in Denver. She told me to break the outlines body paragraphs into general questions to answer. After answering the questions, put them together and alter them to flow. This strategy increased the length of my rough drafts to be longer than needed. This also made my papers more

Throughout the course of my senior year in high school, I decided to take the English 101 college class to get a head start and become prepared for the upcoming post-secondary educational years. Throughout the course, we have had many reading and writing experiences. We read many essays that was helpful, interesting, and powerful in terms of context. In return, my writing has improved in numerous ways. Many particular handouts have been utilized and aided me in the improvement of my writing. Many of the class activities brought my work to life and helped me think about the work critically. It led me to be engaged with my peers and learn from them. Therefore, I want to explain each aspect.

Through the course of the semester, I have improved my writing organization skills by learning to do prep work before writing like analyzing the prompt, laying out an outline, and researching evidence prior to writing. By doing this I have made it simple to generate a thesis, display concise and professional composition, and overall improve my quality of work. From the past, I have always seen my writing as weak and flawed by cause of, not properly formatting and expanding further on my rationale. I do not believe I was properly taught to write an essay. I have sought help to improve, but writing has always been a difficulty for me from the start and unmotivated to write. That is why I’ve always struggled in any English class. With that background information in mind, I still did not let that take the best of me. I am aware of my weakness and it only makes me want to improve. For example, when writing the first assignment I did not correctly format my paper because I did not take the time to do so. Learning from that experience onto my next assignment I created an outline and from that, I saw a dramatic change in my writing. Just by formatting my paper, my work was better expressed and easier for my audience to comprehend. That is why I chose to take English 101 to help articulate my thoughts on paper and create a solid argument, and overall have room for improvement.

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.

Growing up, English was always a struggle for me, I didn’t like to read or write and, I always found myself, especially trying to avoid reading at all costs. Up until first grade Spanish was all I knew, so when I began school I had to learn the language everyone already knew, English. English scared me and became difficult as I feared that I was falling behind in a subject I should have already know. Soon I found out I was right, during the dreaded parent conferences where my parents were told I was below reading and writing levels. My parents tried to encourage me write and read more but I had no interest as at the time I felt that I was always gonna be behind in English no matter how hard I tried. Later when I got high school things changed, I took an advanced English class just challenge myself after that class, I continued with advanced placement courses as I knew it was time to change my mentality. After high school when I tested into English 49, I became disappointed with my results of finding out that I needed to take English 49, as I believed my writing skills were slightly more developed. Today I am glad that I got the opportunity to take English 49 as with this course this semester I have improved in structuring and organizing a five plus paragraph essay, in grammar and punctuation and, in the analysis of an author's writing.

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