What I Learned In My Writing Class

I have been a student at San Jose States University for second years, English 1A was my first regular English class, and over the course of my stay I have grown and learned a lot. As Hospitality major, I do not know whether need my writing skills for future job, but I know the great experience in English 1A class would help me to improve all my writing weakness.

I hate reading and writing I never show interesting and I thought it was boring and just slept the whole period. But taking English 096 in my first semester at Harold Washington has impacted my writing skills in a positive way. This class helped me to learn more the skills I needed to become a better writer I college and for my future. Professor Thomas helped me with my writing and showed me that I do not have to be a perfect writer to get my point across. Like every writer we have are weaknesses and are strongest strategies. One of my weak is brainstorming ideas for my topic or how to compare two stories. But the class thought me how to comprehend the stories and try to make things they have in common. English 096 have also helped me to communicate more with my peers. My peers will help me revise my writing and make common so I can fix them and just make my final draft. I changed how I write because when the semester I was as good as a writer because I thought it was boring. But time passed I started to feel interesting and with the help of the professor I started to write better. The professor was determined to make us better writer. He would do every morning warm up and it seems small but it had an impact of how I write. Because I learned little things I never heard about.

In Freshman Composition I learned what metacognition means, and how it applies to academic writing. Next I learned about textual evidence and backing up your opinions with research. *I expect this class to help develop my writing skills, as well as find my voice in writing, all together I expect this class to be challenging but rewarding. Therefore I have set a few goals for myself, my first goal is to step out of my comfort zone and research topics I have never heard of before. My second goal is to not second-guess myself on my writing topics and/or choices. Furthermore I expect great things to come from this

I was able to achieve this success with the help of a friend, who majored in English. I was inspired by her teaching and guidance in sentence structure. In fact, she is the secret behind my success in terms of revising my English assignment as at the time I took a course in ENG 101. With her help I learnt how to revise and modify sentence structure in writing.

Before coming to this class, I already felt prepared to write academic assignments. I took higher level english classes in highschool and I think that the class structure combined with the excellent teachers helped me prepare for college english classes.

I am thinking that I can be an effective active reader in a slight, because I am stilling learn and annotate during the reading time. Nonetheless, I had forgotten how to annotate with the article and essay since the high school. Then I had been good annotating with students’ essay and gave them feedback. Although, I felt this annotate is a good for allow myself to know what is the students’ story that can be apply my interpersonal with others. Thus, the annotation is always good start with the practice as a circle words, confusing or unknown of that phrases, underline the major points in a text, example of the evidence and the questions that I had during the reading and writing in the margin. Until now, I understood why do the annotate is an important to use for the discussion and

Reading Publication Manual, I learned to be a good writer; it requires different elements. These elements are learned as the writer writing becomes stronger and learns what to do and not to do. A writer should see writing as a form of thinking, building, explore, and express their knowledge. "Authors use various strategies in putting their thoughts on paper. The fit between author and strategy is more important than the particular strategy used. These approaches for achieving professional and effective communication are (a) writing from an outline; (b) putting aside the first draft, then rereading it later; and (c) asking a colleague to review and critique the draft for you"(pg. 70). A good writing should make use of a good vocabulary. The type of vocabulary used should be appropriate and related to the writing. Another element a writer should keep in mind, paragraphs should not be long and complicated. Paragraph should transition smoothly with minor confusion. “Although writing only in

In the workshop, the professor talked about how to annotate. In the past, when I read, I seldom took notes; therefore, I easily forgot what I read. Also, I did not pay much attention to vocabularies. I did read a lot of books and articles, but my writing skills did not improve. Annotation is a more effective way of reading. By annotating while reading, I am able to learn new vocabularies, sentence constructions and writing strategies. It is also easier to understand the argument of the writers, because the thesis, topic sentences, and evidence are all included in my notes.

To improve something, usually takes time and since the first day of class on August 19th my sentence writing has became exceptionally better. In my argumentative essay I used limited sentences structures and had multiple fragments. In the essay I used two types of sentences I knew about, the others came by a way of accident. I only knew how to write simple sentences and compound sentence. I could have made more complex sentences if didn’t cut of sentences with a period. I later improved this in a later assignment of proposing a solution, where we I knew how to write all four sentence types and this

This college course proved to be one of the most challenging classes I have taken in high school. In addition to learning how to improve my writing and reading skills, I had to be responsible with my time. This can lead to difficulties because I learned that I am a slow reader. Fortunately, my understanding of the text is not compromised as I just simply tend to take my time when it comes to reading the assigned novels for this semester. For the most part, I think that my ability to analyze any type of reading has improved. One aspect that I think has improved dramatically is my ability to critically analyze a novel through different schools of criticism. Learning about different criticisms has vastly increased the number of perspectives I can use in order to effectively analyze a novel. This is especially helpful as I discover more genres to read. I can attempt

accepted author’s arguments and didn’t put my thoughts on them. Thus, I always had a struggle to write down my opinions about reading in persuasive and logical ways. I never went through several processes to annotate before learning these chapters. However, after learning the skills to read and annotate, I could annotate and understand articles more easily. By annotating with several steps and putting reactions to the ideas in the text, I could analyze articles more thoroughly and also have critical thinkings (also put my ideas into reading paragraphs). In this way, I could have clear thinkings and feelings about the text. As a result, I had more materials

I took this class knowing it would challenge me and more than likely get on my nerves--which it did--but I do not regret taking the course. I have learned writing skills beyond the write, revise, and finalize that comes with every paper written. This class taught me how to write with purpose and revise to make the purpose clear.

Entering the semester reading has been one of my many struggles throughout the english classes I have taken. I don’t really like reading, but it’s probably because I have a hard time understanding at times. Also it seems it goes in one ear and then goes out the other which makes it harder to remember what happened. However reading the books we did in class changed my perspective on reading just a bit. Before reading we were shown how to properly annotate, and talk to the text to dig deeper. Our first

Throughout my life, adults have encouraged me to do well in school. However, on the first day of EN 100 it terrified me, as I did not know if I was going to be able handle a college class. I have heard of horrific tails about this class. Long papers and low grades seemed to be the stigma. Writing is not one of my strong suits, and to enroll into a college writing class was a death sentence for my GPA. I was beyond nervous, when I first started this semester. Large amounts of pressure to succeed in this class rested on my shoulders. However, I did not know if I was able to handle the hard work I have been previously informed about. Within the first few days, I slowly realized what this class was all about and prior worries had begun to melt away. I learned that I can control when to work on an assignment, throughout the week. This was beneficial, because it showed me time management skills. Furthermore, this class also has given me a sense of preparedness for college.

Writing 122 is my first writing class I have taken in college. Coming in to this class I had no idea on what to expect, especially when it came to producing an essay. During the last few years of high school the focus in my English classes was on how fast you can write an essay. This was good in getting me prepared for standardized testing, but not good at preparing me for college. That being said getting back into the swing of outlining, drafting, and revising was difficult for me. After writing draft A, I felt like I had a solid paper because if I was back in high school that would have been my only shot. Through lecture I was able to learn some key skills I could use in revising. One of these being making an outline of all the main points in each paragraph. Once summarized, I realized that my paragraphs were not in an ideal order and that if I moved them around my piece of writing would make more sense. This has affected my understanding of the word revision, because I have gained knowledge that revision is not just changing words to make your writing seem clearer. Instead, it is taking sentences out, adding new ones in, all while rearranging the order of your sentences. With this in mind, transforming your paper from one draft to another should create a whole new paper. This can be seen through my differential drafts, especially the changes between draft A and B. Almost, if not every, sentence had some sort of revision to it. Some of this revision came from reading and