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Reflective Essay: A Work In Progress

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A Work in Progress Entering into a Composition class has proven that I know a lot less about writing than I had originally been aware of. With being four weeks into the class, I now realize I have already learned a lot of information about grammar, sentence structuring and transitions. When my first paper came back graded and did not meet my expectations, that was when I knew I had much more effort and research to put into my writing abilities. From there, I spent a lot of time researching; revising and building paper number two. When paper number one was graded, I still found myself feeling exceptionally disappointed. I still have quite a few weaknesses when putting a paper together. I am feeling the most disappointment due to the points I missed for my use of contractions, commas and simple errors in my titling capitalization. Those are simple corrections and upon reading that paper as many times as I did, I am unsure how I missed the opportunity to correct them. I have learned how the use of contractions is …show more content…

The website www.paperrater.com was an excellent resource to use. Along with using that website, I intend to continue to go back through the pages in various chapters of our Faigley book since it has plenty of stories that are excellent examples of each type of writing. I am finding that many of the resources posted weekly on Moodle are a great help to understanding the topic of each paper and what it entails to write each paper. The presentations on transitions and commas (“Conquering the Comma”) specifically helped guide me into better format. I also really benefited from watching the video called “ Understanding Plagiarism”. I plan to be proactive in retaining what I read from those resources. The sense of accomplishment I will get once I am successfully able to construct a paper correctly will be well worth the journey of

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