Personal Reflection

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

self-reflect on who I am as a person as well as opening me up to more career goals that match my

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

The essay did not come together like I would like it. I found that using quotes that are relevant to the topic can be a tough undertaking. The whole process of looking for a quote, adding the quote and then citing my quote. It completely changed the way I write, and I feel that this has been an important step in your English class. Using the library's resources to assist, helped me to learn how to synthesize, analyze and interpret information.

The first improvement I saw was the wording I would use. At first, it may be dull, and there may be overused and bulky words, but as it winds down to the finished product, the wording seemed better to me. For example, no matter what I write, I would use general words like "things" or "some," but now I will stop myself and go back in the moment and elaborate. When I am reading through it, I will look at the essay as if someone else wrote it, and if I would question it usually, I fix it. While I may understand what a sentence means, another person may not understand what I am trying to get across to them. Furthermore, at first it was hard for me to find other words, but now it is almost like second nature.

When I arrived at the agency, the room was crowded and many people were waiting for their turned to be served at one of the several tables. The person that I interviewed for this assignment was Emily Hampshire, the coordinator of one of a program called 180. Emily has been with the agency for over a year and is currently the coordinator of the agency’s newest program. This program is a gang prevention and intervention program and was created for the local at-risk youth in an effort to prevent gang related crimes and help youth “change their life around”, as Emily mentioned. This program was created in collaboration with the local Police Department and the Mount Diablo Unified School District and in

This essay will be about my reflection on this years English 4 class. This class has been helpful and has helped me improve on a bunch of stuff. Also I got to enjoy taking it with my friends and that made this year go by a lot faster.

Before, I begin my story, here are a couple of the theories I have incorporated about my college experience. The first is Schlossberg 's Transition Theory. As a Transfer Student, this model has helped me understand my transition process through her model. Her theory is grounded in adult development literature. A transition as she defines is “ any event, or nonevent”[ which] results in changed relationships, routines, assumptions, and roles.” ( p 37) In her model, she talks about the meaning of the transition for the individual based on three topics: type, context, and impact.Then, she moved into the transition process which is described as reactions over time and as three different phases; moving in, moving through,

I have learned many things throughout the course of the term, including such things as: how to write an essay and how to improve on essays that I have already written, how to locate and composite better research through the use of numerous resources found at the campus library, the internet, and the “Common Sense” textbook, how to cite research, examples, and quotations properly within the contents of my research paper as well as document it accurately according to MLA standards. Through the exploration of the “Subjects and Strategies” textbook, I have learned nine different methods used when writing an effective essay and how the different writing styles affect the overall theme and tone of the essay when used properly. This past

I believe I can have a lot of respect for the players, the server, and its reputation. I try my best to be as respectful to others because I want to be treated with respect. I've always treated people with respect (except for minor toxicity in the past), especially on this server. I've loved this server since the day I joined back in 2014, I don't know what it is but I always wanted to apply for staff, and I think I'm old enough and mature enough to help the server now. When I first joined Arkham I was playing in other communities as well (soup pvp, potpvp, etc.) and I couldn't not only dedicate time to the server, but I was quite toxic then. I've gotten better over time and have learned to control my "toxicity" so that I could be a nice to new players as possible.

Recollection of past experiences has proven to be one of the best teaching tools in existence. It is not just the reminiscing of the past that benefits us; it is the critical thinking that follows said reminiscing that is the most fruitful. Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and much can be learned when reflecting on past situations. These observations, in turn, have the potential to guide our future decision making as well as our future actions. As I ponder the events and actions that have lead me up to this point, I have found that I have done much better at handling my workload and personal life simultaneously than I previously assumed I would. If all goes marvelous and I continue forward through this semester while maintaining my current work ethic, I postulate that I will finish this semester strong and continue to not only learn, but to fully integrate all of this fresh knowledge into my mind to be readily available for years to come.

This course enhances my understanding about bereavement’s theory and counselling skills working with bereaved people. Before I took this course, I thought bereavement only about death of a person. In fact, bereavement can also imply losses such as employment losses and leaving home. Also, changes can be a bereavement too as it is always come with gain and loss. Since one of the course aim is develop skills in counselling with bereaved people, I was nervous before attending to class because I don’t have anyone close to me is deceased. I was afraid that I am not able to work with bereaved people if I don’t have this experience. Now I know that bereavement is a type of loss and I have experience of loss. It facilitates the learning process because I can apply theory to myself and the cases we work on class. This course draws on theories from multiple aspect to discuss about bereavement, grief and mourning. Culture differences surely play a big role in those. As we learned about death in different culture, it is important to learn and respect all culture differences and understand and meet their needs. The film bereavement from a Muslim perspective, Muslim believe that the soul of a decreased person is still present around the person. Therefore, Muslim wants to stay with the decreased person so he/she doesn’t feel lonely. This behavior may not seem normal in other culture. Learning and listening to different culture differences such as emotion, role of mourners and belief system can avoid making assumption of our own culture to the bereaved people, otherwise misunderstandings can create a gap between the counsellor and the bereaved people and possibly lead to conflict too. Also, individual often carry different religion and spirituality. At first, I failed to see the significant of religion in counselling with bereaved people. As I am an atheist myself, learning other religions make me empathize other’s feeling. In class, we worked on a case about a grandmother believe her grandson is in hell. Some religions believe there is a heaven as well as a hell in afterlife. It was my first time to think about someone is in hell as I heard people talk about heaven for the most time. It was a very

The writing I did this semester for Engl 110c has meant alot to me because I was able to pick a topic that has such a huge impact in my life. I was able to do the topic about Navy Wives, which has a huge impact on me. I recently became a navy wife a year ago and my life has changed drastically. I was able to share everything I wanted to about the life of a military wife through my writings, as well as share to my classmates about my topic. I really enjoyed creating my ePortfolio because I could come out of my shell and be me. I made a ePortfolio website that would be for military wives to read. I believe this website would be perfect for any military wife reading it. I was able to give tips and information on what it’s like to be a military wife, how to prepare for deployments and how to stay strong being a military wife.

Throughout the course of this past semester I have been able to learn many valuable things about myself, such as my work ethic, my time management skills, and my need to leave an impact upon the populations I surround myself with. In regards to my work ethic, I have realized that I will stop at nothing to make sure I achieve my goals, so to do this I complete all assignments and attempt extra credit in all areas where it is allowed, further I reach out to students and professors to ensure I understand the material in class. Further, my time management skills have improved drastically throughout this past semester, as I have been able to manage my class work and assignments while maintaining high performance in conjunction to balancing extracurricular and a job. In order to delve into impacting those around me, which I have realized is my ultimate goal, I have joined many student organizations that seek to improve student life on campus and to impact those who do not have the same advantages as I do—this is why I have joined clubs such as Undergraduate Student Government and Us United.

When thinking of being an effective teacher who understands his or her students, it is very important for the teachers to understand themselves first. It is important for a teacher to understand the way that he or she learns because it gives them more knowledge and understanding of given situations. If a teacher wants the entire classroom to do well, it is important to remember what Kubiszyn & Borich (2016) state, “In other words, just as there is no one size fits all tool, no single test is appropriate for all purposes and all persons (p. 2). This quote helps readers understand that there are many factors that should be accounted for when assessing students.