The challenges I mentioned in my first writing assignment were how I handle my emotions, depression, eating habits, and personal motivation. Looking at these issues now with a few months of analysis has given me a new way to see these things. I have come to handle my emotions better, and without the "stop and look" button I so desperately thought I needed. Having a young child has given me the push I needed to really assess a situation to see if there is even a need to be upset at all. Sure you can't
child, writing was one of my favorite hobbies, so I used to spend many hours to write in my daily journals. However, when I came to America, I felt more difficult to write and express my thoughts in English because I did not know much vocabularies and lacking grammatical knowledge. Then, I decided to go back to school to improve my writing skills because I recognize the significant of writing in my everyday lives. As a college student, my writing are about different types of class assignments such
I would have to be honest in saying that over the course of my college career, my standard of writing has seen a fair amount of variation. In courses where I observed that the instructor was not as rigorous in grading writing assignments, I allowed my writing to become more lax. This was evident when I received the grading and comments for the first assignment for this class. My grade was decent, but after analyzing the feedback, I knew that I was capable of producing better work. Many of the mistakes
Reflection As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical
Focusing in self- evaluation to improve the learning process, help me to set goals and be aware of my own mistakes. When the English Composition course started, I wanted to be able to express my thoughts and my ideas in an effective way. The continuation of my education was very difficult, and I began to doubt myself when faced with the first couple of weeks. My first assignment was my most difficult assignment, and I found myself having trouble sticking to a thesis, because I had so many ideas that I
experience my first experience of college level english, as it has been known, it's not easy. College level English was definitely gonna be tricky, since I kinda knew what to except, and I knew my writing skills were not the best. I knew for a fact that I have bad grammar issues it's how it's always been for me and it did show on the first difficult assignment I was assigned. Every assignment was important but the paper take the crown on utmost important since they make up most of your grade. On my first
1. How do you typically go about preparing for a writing assignment? Describe the steps you take, including rereading the assignment, asking questions about it, talking to instructors or friends, jotting down ideas, gathering information, and so on. How far in advance of the due date do you usually begin working on the assignment? Typically, I look at the assignment as soon as I can before the due date in order to begin the brainstorming process. This could be three months or two days prior to
The Reflective Essay Writing has been one of my favorite hobbies since I was in high school, so I used to spend many hours to writing in my daily journals in Vietnamese. However, when I came to America, I felt more difficult to write and express my thoughts in English because I did not know much vocabularies and lacking grammatical knowledge. Then, I decided to go back to school to improve my writing skills because I recognize the significance of writing in my everyday lives. As a college student
few assignments with the guidelines for papers and assignments being broad. I soon came to the realization that I would have my compositional skills pushed to the limit. Although I entered the course with a adequate level of competency in writing, I significantly had my knowledge and skills in academic writing expanded as showcased in the progression of my assignments. I have learned proper procedure for MLA formatting, as well as proper rhetorical analysis, as opposed to synopsis. My writing has
Writing and I have always had a, what I would consider, a fairly complicated relationship. I have always dreaded writing assignments, yet those assignments reflect most accurately my understanding of the subject. Most of the time, I would greet a writing assignment with a sigh or an eye-roll. Whether it was in Vietnamese, or English, I would try to put up the work until last minute and grudgingly hand it in. As I expressed in my Narrative Essay, my writing teachers had always said that I had potential