Reflection On English 101 At Capital Community College

This year in our English 1010 class, we covered many different genres and types of writing. We covered how to write personal narratives, how to respond to other students and other forms of writing, and how to professionally write essays. Briefly, we touched down on how to write argumentatively and were also required to create an infographic, wish was probably my favorite assignment. Although I never thought of myself as a strong writer, I believe that this class has greatly improved not only my writing skills, but my thinking skills as well. This was my first English class to be taken through dual enrollment and I believe that it went quite successfully while challenging me as a writer.

riting 101 was the second college course I have taken. Before I started taking college classes, I had not attended any type of academic classes sine I graduated high school in 2012. Going into this course, I thought I was not going to benefit very much from it but I was wrong. I had forgotten the majority of what I learned in high school. This writing course not only helped me to refresh my writing skills, but also taught me new things that I know will be helpful as I continue my education. When I realized I had to take this class I thought it would be easy for me. I soon realized that even though I had taken advanced classes in high school, in many ways I was not prepared for college level writing.

I feel that by taking this class it will help to not only get ready for the college that I plan to have in my future, but also my skills, no matter what, that will stay with me for the rest of my life. The effects will be not only short-term as I go through the rest of high school and eventually college, but will also follow me out for the rest of my life. Everyday we are using writing in one way or another, and the differences between good and bad writing skills are huge! This class is to prepare us for the writing portions of college and that is exactly what I am planning to take advantage of it for.

When I first decided to take the class I didn't expect much from it, except for writing tons of essays each week. My expectations were not high because I knew it was another core class I had to get through. However, my expectations were completely overturned after taking this class for a semester. Instead of writing essays each week we had free writing, a walking journal, interesting articles to read, and most importantly lots of interaction with our peers. This class was nothing what I expected and I was really surprised how it turned out to be one of my favorite classes I have taken so far. I have learned so much about improving my writing and grammar, authors, techniques in writing, and even how to cope with stress and organize my thoughts back in order. I learned all about polemic and dialectic writing as

In English 102 I would consider it to be the best education academic writing experience of my education. There would be times where I could say I struggled the most in class was with my grammar and word choices. Throughout my attendance, I intended to prove myself to Professor Hohmann, who is an English professor at CAC (Central Arizona College) that I can write professionally as a student. I created six assignments in the English course to prove myself that I can compose assignments and research as well as my peer college classmates. The tasks that were given to me for grades were beneficial for other classes, career and in life. One of the assignments was a research paper on a specific topic that I desired, which needed to be a debatable discussion. An additional task that helped me out with my writing was the

As my freshman year of college comes to a close, I reflect on my two English courses this year. I have learned a lot these last two semester in my english 101 and 102 classes. English 101 focused a lot on different types of papers, while English 102 focused mainly on taking what we learned from a reading and analysing and interpreting of stories and poems we read. Looking back at my high school English days, I believe I had made major improvements in my writing abilities between these two semesters.

I learned how to write essays in eighth grade, three years before I entered Writing 101. However, this class made me realize that I was not strong in many areas of writing and it has helped me strengthen those areas. I had weak vocabulary; simple sentences, that had no variety; It never took me long to write an essay, only about thirty minutes; and my punctuation only consisted of periods and commas. Looking back at previous essays, I can see how this course has affected my growth as a writer; and I can really have an appreciation for my choice of enrolling in it.

To begin with, English 1101 has been a very trying but beneficial course in regards to my writing development. Throughout the course, I struggled with keeping my personal feelings and opinions out of my work. Although, my idea development and competitive nature to have the best paper in the class proved to be my strengths, writing was a lot harder than anticipated. From Essay One to Essay Three, the quality and execution of my writings have tremendously improved. Along with writing workshops and journal entries every class, I can honestly say I have become a very strong writer compared to day one of classes.

Throughout the semester in english 101 I have gained and developed valuable skills in which have improved my overall writing. From the survey in which I find out my strengths and weaknesses to the the final response essay, I believe I have refined my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses. Also not only have I polished my knowledge on concepts I already covered in high school, but I have learned many new concepts of writing as well. All of these learning aspects of this course are credited to making me an improved writer.

I’m taking English 101 not simply because it’s required, but because I truly do need it. I need to strengthening my skills in reading and writing. My goals for this course are to work on strengthening my fluency, structure, grammar, and mechanics in writing. And Also, work on strengthening my reading comprehension.

When I first signed up for the class last year, I was expecting an extremely hard class dedicated to solely writing essays. In a sense, I was not wrong in that it was hard class and most of the assignments included writing. At that time, I had little confidence in my writing abilities. I dreaded every moment I had to spend on writing assignments. Even though I hated writing, I decided to challenge myself to take the class to improve my writing capabilities. At the

I have learned so much in this class. When we started with English in Unit one and going over misspelled and misused words I felt like I was in school all over again but it was an eye opener. It was very helpful that I got the chance to refresh on Capitalization, verbs, nouns and how to write a proper essay. Reviewing APA writing and in text citations and the proper way to use them in an essay was helpful to me. Sometimes I was a little nervous reading the feedback but it was for my good. I appreciate all the resources and assignments given in this class so that I can learn and be a better writer.

This class was very interesting seeing how it was only eight weeks of the semester. It was a little difficult for me to get started with the essays seeing how there was an essay due every other week. Coming to class every day made it very easy for me to learn the skills to main and keep the tasks in line to make sure I get everything done well and on time. The conversations in class on different ways we can express ideas helped even more in other class for me creating a clear thesis statement. Once the thesis statement, the paper would be able to write itself out with just me having to cite information.

In addition to all of the helpful links, video and exercises, the class discussions and essays have helped me apply all of the new things I have learned throughout the eight weeks of this course. It is easier for me to find a beginning and I don't struggle as much with finding or wording my thesis statement. After the four essays that had to be completed for this course, it is less of a challenge for me to reach a certain word limit, whereas prior to taking this course, I struggled writing more than 700 words for an essay. Although there is still room for improvement, writing college essays, or essays in general, in English as opposed to German, is now far easier than before taking the Writing 101 class. My writing has become substantially better than it was before I took my first class at

When I signed up for the Writing 101 course, I did not have many expectations. I knew that I would learn the proper way to format sentences, use punctuation, and write/revise essays. I have always had a hard time finding the grammar and proper word usage mistakes in my own essays and I would like to think that this class has helped me to refine my writing skills. Moreover, this class has also helped me to delve deeper into my interests and further examine my family life.