Thirteen years in the making is this essay. I will finally be rid of English classes. The seven-hour writing sessions the night before an essay is due are finally done. I have been in an English class since I can dot my i’s and cross my t’s. Now that I am at the culmination it is a sappy time. I will miss and be glad I will never have to analyze a book or use a book as a lens for another book. For this course I have taken twelve years of English class and yet this course has been the most difficult of them all. But as the saying goes, “what does not kill me makes me stronger”. This course has made me a far better writer than I have when I first stepped into the course from the first. I remember the first in class assignment on Jacques. I sat there for twenty minutes before even putting the pen on paper because I had no idea what to write about. After the end of the assignment of was fairly certain that I was going to fail this class. I made very general observations about the speech. The observations started with basic summary and not too in depth analysis, what I was accustomed to writing in high school. I said in my untitled passage about Jacques speech, “We can do anything and be anybody and we are not forced to have a predestined role chose by a director”. That was the farthest in depth I went about the human condition. I did not even mention the word human only in my first sentence when I was restating the question as my opener. The class was allowed roughly
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During the first semester of English 1301, I have learned so much that before I hadn’t comprehended. This class has teached me to write what is my passion and explain my thoughts thoroughly. The classes I took before were mostly teaching the arts of writing essays in which the not much was learned. This class made an exception for me to challenge myself and try to succeed in becoming a better writer. I feel as I have learned more in these 16 weeks than have in the last two years of highschool english.
I enjoyed that the class discussed a topic to an extent, which allowed me to research and learn the material on my own. It is not that I did not learn anything in the class, it is that the class was able to give me the push that a baby bird needs to learn how to fly. Through this method, I have succeeded the best way compared to other methods. I enjoy this approach because it allows me to make a decision for myself. I always have thought that in life, if an individual genuinely wants something realistically, they would give it their all to achieve their goals. If an individual puts themselves down by telling themselves that they are not capable of accomplishing their goal, they will never able to complete them. Therefore, the ones who truly desires something and invests time and effort, that individual will have the desired substance. I found that the class had a similar feeling to this because I was given a choice, and I loved it. Through these boundless choices, I was able to fully disclose my ability to write. I found that the less I had to restrict what I could write, I put less effort into it and I had a worser quality of writing.
This year I have learned a lot from College Writing, this class has taught me a lot about my own writing and what makes a good essay. I have learned a lot about myself as a writer and as a person throughout the course. In this reflection of the past semester I will be going through my past papers and talk about what I liked and how I could’ve made them better. I will also be going through the activities that have shaped my writing the most. Hopefully, I will be representing how I have grown as a writer throughout the year because of this class. Before taking this class I was already relatively confident in my writing abilities and was excited to take the class. Now that the course is completed I am even more confident in my writing because of all the new techniques and helpful tips I learned.
With the anxiety flowing throughout my body, I knew the time was near of facing my English 1301 class. Being told that I needed to improve my writing during my grade school days, I knew that I didn’t feel at ease going into a college level English class. But, with this in mind I had to pull myself together to encounter the challenges that I will face. However, having the privilege of having an amazing professor I believe my writing skills improved, also I was able to find my confidence.
The challenging component this semester was the transition from high school English reading and writing level to college level. It is mainly because High school writing did not have many expectations from students, its main focus was on the ideal five-paragraph essays. As compared to college, writing is mainly geared and focused on one’s ability to thoroughly answer the assigned prompt. Initially, I was not sure if I was capable of handling a fast-paced course, however, I quickly adjusted to the change and I am glad that I chose to stay. In English 10, I have learned many valuable elements that I can incorporate into my everyday writing. I have included my writing from project 2 a rhetorical analysis on, “Black Lives Matter”, which effectively demonstrates my growth as a reader, thinker, and writer.
The blinds on the windows are shut, it feels like a prison cell as I sit under the spotlight. The darkness outside makes me feel somber and alone. I stare at the glowing screen and think to myself, “It’s just me and this paper.” In December of my junior year in high school, I was assigned a persuasive essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter; it was my first academic essay of the year. My previous experiences with academic writing were both stressful and unfulfilling; when the essay topic was announced, I felt only resentment and anger, I remembered my past tribulations. With my mother’s help, this essay was different; after I submitted it to the teacher, I possessed a new perspective on academic writing. From my experience, I learned that strong writing skills are vital to communication, critical thinking, and life outside of the classroom.
In this assignment I address the pivotal moment in my development as a writer and how this event is changing me. I reflected on college English class at Azusa Pacific University that I am currently taking. Initially In this essay I will be discussing my driver for this class and explore how English course is a fundamental skill in my nursing career.
Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.
“Finally!” I thought to myself as summer is slowly approaching, “I am done with this high school forever.” I honestly am so excited for summer that each day I count down the number days I have for school. Moreover, I constantly think of the activities that I will do during the summer that sound a lot better than school. Despite being overjoyed of leaving high school, I certainly would not deny that I have tremendously improved as a writer. True, as mentioned in all of my previous reflective essays, I still despise English; however, I have to grudgingly admit College Credit Plus English 1010 refined my writing skills from my junior year in AP English class. My classmates and teacher pointed out some ways that I could brush up my essays, which
What can I say, I am shocked that I have made it this far. With so much going on at work, home and college. I fell behind the first two weeks, because I was questioning why am, doing English I hate it so much. I thought to myself let me push the English class until the end. There is no way I will catch up with the course work. Talk to my wife, and she is a writing genius. She said babe you can do this, how are you so good at math, and hate English. So I buckled down, cannot let the wife see me sweat. Funning thing is once I start reading all the weekly assignments and instruction there, everything started to make sense. I found all my weakness in my writing one of my main issue being Slang/Jargon. One item I can put in my tool box is the writing
This essay taught me that I needed the composition course to help better prepare me for future college writing. I realized that I was not prepared. After completing this essay, I was not sure I could be a successful writer.
Water Needs In Singapore Singapore's water resources are limited and we should not take the availability of water for granted. Our demand for water is increasing each year. With increasing affluence, Singaporeans enjoy a good standard of living and now own many modern appliances which demand ever greater use of water. Water consumption is also increased by the setting up of more nuclear families and households. Today, we consume about 300 million gallons of clean water a day.
I honestly hate English a lot. This essay is really going to screw me over so bad. I really did try though. I am just not good at writing essays or anything in general. I really hope this does not bring my grade down. I hate how English class is always quite. Like I cannot work in dead silence; it is just awkward. I am only typing this because I want to see what grade I would get on this. For my essay due tomorrow, I got a C on it according to this website. So, if I get a higher grade on this, I will probably throw myself at a brick wall. If I would be able to get up after throwing myself, I would go back and do it again until I am no longer able to get up. This website said there is a minimum limit for them to grade a paper, but I am not sure
I have been writing since I have been in Middle School. I have realized that by college it was easier for me to write down my thoughts in order for me to remember what I have said or done. Writing out my thoughts gives me a sense of recollection, knowledge, and pacification that gets me through my day. I pictured writing to be as simple as jotting down a few sentences, but as I got farther in school I realized that there is more to it than just writing sentences. English has been my most difficult subject I have ever endured, but I have somehow been managing to make excellent grades and achieving all requirements. First in the essay, I will discuss my experiences in the English life that I’ve taken so far up until college. The second part will list my struggles in creating a thesis, a work cited, and properly citing my sources used in the papers.
Since the beginning of the semester, my writing has changed and evolved to accommodate and sustain longer essays. With longer essays, there is more room for in-depth analysis. Further analyzing a topic has led me to findings that I did not know existed. As I continue to write, I uncover addition and superior methods to approach my writing to the benefit of me and therefore, my audience. Throughout the semester, I have incorporated techniques to further my narrative throughout my writing.