Reflecting on English Class 111 Essay

English 111 introduces students to critical thinking and the fundamentals of academic writing. This is a prerequisite English class for higher-level English education. By the end of this course a student will have gained a great deal of practice in the craft of writing. This essay will evaluate the English 111 textbooks, essays, self-reflections, the instructor, and what I personally learned. The English 111 textbook had effective sample essays and diagrams of outlines. The Successful College…

Susie Vickery English 104 Reflection Paper It’s hard to believe that my amazing journey in English 104 is coming to an end. The journey has been so much more enjoyable than I initially expected. I have tried to avoid taking English 104 numerous times because reading and writing have not been my strong points. Each time I attempted to take this course, I dropped it due to a particular instructor style, or a boring set of literary materials. This time around was different, as I set my goal to…

Michael Statchen English 110 5/3/2010 Professor Finegan Capstone Project My Journey as an English Student When I signed up for this Introduction to Literature course I was not expecting it to be one of the most insightful and interesting classes that I have ever taken. Nevertheless, over the years I have learned to expect the unexpected and that truth held to it’s own with this course. After five years of avoiding any type of English Literature course I knew it was time to finally take one, as…

Taking an English class during college is important for a fundamental education, because regardless of the major I chose, I must able to communicate well in written and spoken words. After all, in the future, when I try to obtain a job, the corporations will most likely base their decision on my ability to express ideas and opinions in a sophisticated and correct manner. Therefore, increasing my knowledge and skills in English will increase my opportunities to success. Yet, currently, many students…

1.0 Introduction According to the ministry of education in Kuwait it has always been a ‘sin’ when teach-ers use Arabic in an English class, even if it is to clarify a certain aspect that students could not grasp. Well, whether we like it or not, Learners of L2 tend to use L1 when learning the target language, this argument has been proven by a number of re-searchers (Atkinson, 1987; Auerbach, 1993; Cook, 2001; Nation, 2003), and ignoring it or pretending that it is not happening might lead to pedagogical…

Kaleigh Loehmer English 111 January 26, 2012 Un Nuevo Mundo As I placed the car into park, turned the key off and stepped into the crisp cold winter air, I begin to feel my pulse raise. With each step we took drawing us closer to the door, I felt my heart beating faster. With a quick turn of the ice cold door knob, I found myself standing in a whole new world. The food, the music, the faces, the language, everything was different than what I knew. For the first time in my life I was the…

Social class is a hierarchal structure, whereby people within society are grouped and then classified, depending on their economic, social or educational status. British English is a type of English language, which is used in Great Britain. Within modern contemporary British English, it could be argued that social class plays a major part with how the language is today. Firstly, within Britain, there is a variety of different accents that differ from each other, whereby words are pronounced in a…

English courses are never easy. They are challenging and intimidating. When students think about having to take an English course, they dread it. They think of all the long essays that will come, and the precise grading of grammar and paragraph form. It’s a familiar feeling for all students, yet this class somehow proved me wrong. This class has taught me so much about English and has made me enjoy writing. Who would have thought? In the first module of this course, we learned about the rhetoric…

Before my first semester of college began, I thought that if possible failure should be avoided. I believed that failure was not good for me because it would only show my weaknesses. The first day of English class, we learned that we would be talking about our failures throughout this semester and that we would be able to work with our failure and learn about the quality of it. At first that was a little scary to me because for the past few years I ignored my failures and only focused on my triumphs…

Reflecting on English 111 My experience into English 111 not only left me anxious, it became a self-revelation. My learning capabilities were challenged because writing did not come natural and the possibility of becoming a prominent writer were going to take a lot of time, effort and hard work. In spite of not knowing what to expect, I entered into this new semester pumped up carrying an “I can do this” attitude and feeling confident. Oh boy was I scared into complete and utter silence on…