Reflection Paper

College level writing, is the first thing taught when starting a college-level class. meaning the dynamic of how a student was taught to write has been changed and it’s now held to much higher standers. When beginning college, the student is taught the writing process, the writing process is prewriting, outlining ideas, writing a rough draft, revising, and editing. The writing process is what helps the student start the essay, and get to the finishing product. When using the writing process, it also teaches the students good time management skills. Because with each step-in the writing process, a student must make take time for each task. A student to take time to come up with ideas, start prewriting, make an outline, make time to draft, revise, and then edit the essay. Therefor, not only does the writing process teach students how to write in a professional manner, but

As a student, one will always want to make their due assignments top quality. Of course, we are taught by different teachers and mentors what quality a certain assignment should have, a college writing course is no different. Entering as the new class of college freshman, we discover that there is indeed a fresh or different perspective and expectation in our writing. As a result, new challenges will rise. After carefully reading and analyzing I Stand Here Writing and Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers, both written by Nancy Sommers, it has introduced a understanding of what college writing ought to exemplify. Students should be able to achieve many objectives in an essay with a different perception on

As a writer in college, students will be challenged. Unlike high school writing classes, college writing will be more sophisticated and intimate. In high school, most English classes require students to follow the pace of the teacher, however, college writing requires students to work at their own pace. After reading these two articles by Sommers, my thoughts on academic writing has changed. One of Sommers’s students, David, best exemplifies my expectations of a college writer because his attitude towards the class demonstrates how I believe academic writing is challenging. As a student, David went against the grain of the class and “went beyond the texts [Sommers] offered and chose his own.” I believe that college students like David struggle to find or understand information in the given text.

During my first semester attending Auburn University, I took an English Composition class. This course taught me many things not only about necessary writing skills, but also many things about myself. The class also showed me how important it is to research and embrace unfamiliar subcultures and communities. English Composition required me to produce three papers –two of them I am very proud of. Throughout the course of writing each assignment, I developed a connection with the subject matter of each piece. I believe I have learned what is expected of a college level writer. All of the skills I have acquired from this course have molded me into an adequate writer and a well-rounded student.

Some of the essays I have written are theme essays, compare and contrast essays, narratives, argumentative essays, research essays, and symbolism essays. The first essay I can remember writing was in seventh grade; I had to summarize a Christmas movie while incorporating ten different sentence structures. I learned the most about writing last year in my English class when I was a sophomore. I learned about logos, ethos, and pathos which I used to write an argumentative essay on the speeches of Marc Antony and Brutus in Julius Caesar. I also wrote a theme essay about the themes in the book The Lord of the Flies. Lastly, learned the writing style of “claim, evidence, warrant” while writing a symbolism essay on the book Dante’s Inferno. I have never taken any type of college English class so I am looking forward to discover how writing in college differs from writing in high school and to continue to develop as a

Life is an open book, which everyone motivates to read to the end with an expectation of positive outcome. However, life is also full of challenges for everyone. One has to overcome one’s own obstacles, so he/she could reach to successful. As a student in college, writing skills are really important; it helps to provide a solid foundation for one before climbing up to higher level. During the first year of college, I begin to see the importance of writing skills, I try to improve my writing skills through practice drafting, revising, and editing.

Entering a new and unfamiliar place, a burst of cold air hit my skin like a gust of wind on a stormy night. Awaking my nerves, the wind reminded me of where I was. Within my sight, there were roughly twenty other people anxiously walking down the hallway. Feeling relieved, I noticed many of the other students were walking to their first day of college classes as well. At the time of entering my first college class, College Writing One, I did not think there would be anything special about it. This thought, as I found out, would be entirely wrong. Pushing my ideas and knowledge to the edge, I soon found out that College Writing One would be a special class. Obtaining countless knowledge through the reading of essays, class discussions, and even

I feel that the College Writing course benefited my ability as a writer. It increased my confidence about college-level academic writing. I now feel I have broadened my range of different issues and I am much more comfortable discussing and writing about them. Moreover, After writing down two assignments, summary, and an analysis, using different writing concepts from "Reading 3" I have enhanced my style of writing that it had introduced to me. The two assignments that I worked on for this Directed Self-Placement test really challenged me to revise my writing. My first assignment served as a preface to the new style of academic writing. My focus in this assignment was not on strictly enforcing the writing concepts taught to me, rather learning

I started the semester not knowing how I would adjust going from a high school writing class to a college level writing class. I felt my writing was above average, but writing was never one of my strong suits. (but was not one of my strong suits.) I had no way of knowing if my writing competency could hold up to college academic standards. I took Expository Writing with Professor James Brady. Over the semester, multiple learning objectives were learned through my essays. These learning objectives were subject matter knowledge, writing process knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, genre knowledge, and meta-cognition.

For my service learning project I worked in Mrs. Evelyn Costa's first grade class at Meadowlane Elementary. Meadowlane is located at 4280 W 8th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida and was constructed in 1957. There are one thousand one hundred and seventy seven students enrolled at Meadowlane Elementary school. Meadowlane has fifty three classrooms and fourteen portables and there are one hundred and seventy nine students per grade level. The school was built on nine acres of land. The student population of meadowlane Elementary is comprised of 97% Hispanic, 2% White, and 1% Asian.

We have been told by many of our High School English teachers that being able to formulate the perfect essay will make transitioning into the college academic conversation much less challenging. But did they ever teach us how to write such a paper? Well, there was the five-paragraph essay only rule among all of your teachers, and if it did not contain facts or opinions it was unacceptable. That is where one of the many differences between high school English and college English lies. Within college academic writing students will have to know how to incorporate certified outside sources into their papers, be able to keep the reader interested on the topic, and have the ability to read academically.

I had many questions about the city when I first came to Pittsburgh. I grew up in a small town, so my view of the city was based off television shows and music. This gave me a skewed perception of the city. I have found that one of the most challenging parts of moving to Pittsburgh is figuring out what role I will play. Fortunately, I have some time when it comes to figure this, and other complex aspects of city life, out. Since I have began this course not only have some of my questions been answered, but I have explored more important questions that I had not previously been asking myself. Questions like “How will I play apart in the evolution of Pittsburgh” and “What gives me a sense of belonging to Pittsburgh”. I still have much to learn about Pittsburgh, but what I have certainly learned so far is that it easy to watch the city move past you, but it takes much more to become a part of the city.

From birth I have lived in the same little community, a quiet place where literally everybody knows everybody. Come hunting season or Sunday morning the quiet dead little community all of a sudden looks like a metroplex. Everyone shares a common love for God, family, and the great outdoors; these core values have directly shaped me into the person I am today. I have been raised up in a very close knit family, and being that we all live on the same county road, every Sunday evening without exception my whole family gathers together to enjoy a good home cooked meal, and the time spent with each other.

Growing up in America, we are exposed to the aspects of life and the standards that seem like overwhelming issues for us to solve ourselves, but we get consumed about our own problems that we neglect the standards of the LGBTQ+ community outside of the states. We usually stand our grounds and fight the battles at home with a movement that has been more evolved and transformed rapidly over the years. We have our feet rooted into the ground, but the LGBTQ+ movements overseas in more politically detested places are not visible. They are not grounded or rooted like the LGBTQ+ movement is in the United States and for the most part in the “western” realm. While I still believe that the problems we are fighting for at home are valid and need the strength of the community to continue to push for change, I also believe that we should focus some effort to help others in places that are not as accepting. We are fighting for our happiness and they are as well, but their happiness is having another day to survive and blend in.

When I first started college I did not know what to expect with an English class. I liked writing about topics that interested me, but high school did not allow me to do that. I took American History and we would have to write