My Reflection

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.

I began writing with basic vocabulary and barely any sentence variety. As the year progressed, I learned to advance my vocabulary and word choice in addition to incorporating a diversity of sentence structure. Nearing the end of the school year, I acknowledge that I have grown and learned more about writing. I anticipate that I will receive even more arduous writing assignments that require more research and time. Although it will be challenging, I feel confident that I will do well because I feel well prepared from all I’ve done this year. As I grow older, I will have to continue to write. I know I can take the knowledge I’ve learned this year and apply it to future papers for years to

Throughout the course of freshmen year I have developed different skills and opinions on writing. I feel I have created a more mature style of writing and a better understanding of literature. I have changed my view of writing over this semester and acquired a strong liking for it. The importance of writing has become more visible throughout the past few months. Writing is crucial in many aspects of a person’s life. I have grown to be a more powerful and well built writer throughout this course.

Throughout the first semester, I already feel as though I have learned multiple skills that push my writing to a higher level. I have never worked with “They Say, I Say” before, and all of the readings that we have done so far associated with that book added new aspects to my writing than ever before. In particular, I have noticed a large change in my ability to introduce and summarize a piece of writing that I am analyzing before adding my own opinion or take on a subject. Instead of consistently summarizing points of the piece throughout my writing, I improved upon my skills and can now effectively and concisely summarize the piece before introducing any of my own opinions. Additionally, the class discussion that we had about the purpose of a concluding paragraph, in my opinion, helped improve my skills in answering the question: so what?

This semester was my very first semester as a college student. Being the first, it was probably the semester I would learn the most in. I learned the expectations for writing that I will have to live up to for the next four years of my college career. Though my high school teachers were usually demanding because I was in the Honors English section throughout high school, writing in college has still ?raised the bar? for me. Also, in high school, we would have weeks to pick a topic, create a thesis, outline the paper, write the paper, and then revise the paper. In college, the time restraints are not quite as lenient. I?ve had to learn to manage my time and be more productive with what free moments I

Since the start of my freshman year I see my writing skills accelerating to my goal at the end of this year. Overall, I’ve been working hard to get to that goal and achieve of being in the 10th grade level by the end of this year. In the long run, I need to keep working hard to proceed to that goal. Perhaps, I’ve learned tremendous amount of things that helps me in my writing and in my reading. Some examples are spelling, defining words, and revising the text. Although, during the second quarter, I have been falling behind on my homework but made it up with doing achieve’s every day we were assigned to and more to get my grade steady at an A. To sum it up, I believe that I can reach these goals before the end of the year and have sense of hope

During this semester, I have strengthened my writing by trying new writing techniques, learning about purpose, and finding new ways of combating writers block. My first essay in this class was less focused then the essays I wrote later in

During my placement at Project Booyah, I found the 500 hours both a challenging and rewarding experience. Throughout my experience new knowledge and skills were gained as well as insight into looking at issues from a different perspective, ability to identify personal values clashes with organisational values and developing my self-awareness of these issues through critical reflection in which I found invaluable to my practice. Each of these areas will be discussed in more detail below, before discussing areas I have identified for further development.

At the beginning of my ATS unit my career goals were to be successfully offered an interview and gain a position in bachelor of Medicine in 2018 and to explore other medical field jobs I can do by the end of 2017 so I know what other alternative options are available. My learning goal was to get four HD’s for my semester two units in 2017. Even though it’s too early to say whether I will be achieving my goals, I still have the same career and learning goals. The only difference is that the strategies I have for achieving them are different and I’m also more aware of the hurdles that I may have to face in order to achieve my goals.

This lesson was the first one I did during practicum week and I thought it went very well. I did this lesson in the morning pretty much after calendar time. We had to wait a couple minutes for some of the students to get back from extra reading practice. When I went up to the front of the room a lot of the students got excited. Considering I was somebody new, they thought it would be fun for me to teach them. I first asked the students what long vowel sounds they have been working on and almost all of the students raised their hands. I was very proud of the fact that I did not have any trouble with names when I was calling on them. I started the lesson with those questions in order to get them ready for the lesson, it was a quick warm up in order to start thinking about what we will be doing.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t often star at myself in the mirror, studying my own face. Does anybody? The longest amount of time I spend looking at myself is when I’m shaving, and even then, I’m just concentrating on not being a klutz and cutting myself open. I’m not being down on myself or looking for attention or any such nonsense like that. I mean, I don’t even have a Facebook. It’s just that, gazing upon my reflection is just not something I do. I get out of the shower, I shave, brush my teeth, and I’m gone, on to whatever the day has in store for me. Another thing I’m not used to is the clarity of the face.

At this point in my researching I am feeling confident in my general idea. I like my topic and I think I can support it and supplement it with proper research. I am feeling very confident in my focus on my paper. I feel that I have a good focus on my paper and that I will be able to keep on topic during my paper. I am, however not very confident about my thesis. I know what my thesis needs to be about. I know what it needs to say. I just need to find the right way to say it. I have been thinking about how I want to write my thesis but so far it does not work well. It does not give the reader the “so what?” factor that I am looking for in my thesis. I am working on refining it to fit better.

Throughout the school year I have tended to repeat the same mistake. In the beginning, I fell into plot summary syndrome. This was displayed in my October Sky literary analysis, and my All Quiet comparative literature paper. However, I was able to pin point the reason for this, I kept over thinking my ideas for analysis. I wouldn’t write down the actual ideas I had because I scared they would be wrong so I tried to play safe and summarize points I already made, or those explicitly stated in the book. I think I have improved, but I hope to continue to be conscious of this in the future. Another mistake that I had in the beginning of the year was my issue with organization. In earlier grades I was taught the hamburger model along with many

The relationship I have with life is what I see as my reflection. Always wondering how to make it better, and if it’s possible to fix pass problems that still arise today. I love myself, but my reflection is curious, always wondering. I think we all have had this problem not being sure of what direction to take in life. I think about how my reflection has impacted my life every day, all the things that has happened to me these past twenty-four years of my life.

In this collection you will see the real me from outside to inside. you will get to experience the dark and light side of me and my emotions. With all hopes you will learn about my views on humanity and human emotion, in the way that I want you to. Please understand that this is written in the mindset on a teenager who has been taught at a young age that their value in society in the same as dirt or a doormat.