My Writing Class Reflection

This course was comprised of many learning activities; each was designed to help me achieve the course learning outcomes. I have taken two college English classes in the past; however, it has been several years since my last college class. I have some experience in writing and this class definitely helped me get back into writing. I often have trouble brainstorming and capturing the subject I need to write about. This class definitely helped me overcome the challenges I faced in writing and being able to effectively express my ideas in a clear and concise manner. Not to mention, it definitely helped build my writing foundation through a step by step approach to each assignment. Therefore, this class bolstered my writing and communication skills.

Writing 39C has been one of the most profound writing classes I have taken so far. In the past ten weeks, I have learned a lot from my peers and professor. Writing has always been a challenge course for me. Comparing to my previous writing courses, this class requires me to do a large amount of research.

Throughout the course of this semester, I have learned so much about writing. I used to think writing was my best skill in terms of school, but after taking this course, I realized I have a lot to learn still. In high school English was always my highest grade because of my writing, my writing in my SAT scores was always the highest, and last semester in ENGL 1301, I got a high A in the course. But this course has challenged me as a writer to think outside of the box and be more academically smarter in terms of writing. The journals have helped me write about things that we like more than the other assignments because it gives us more freedom and flexibility about what we can write about. These journals are being used as a tool as practice

Before taking this class I never liked my English classes more specifically writing essays for them. I didn’t understand much of how to use strategies while writing essays and focuses little on learning it. By taking this class and using the strategies that I was provided with it made taking this class easy and enjoyable while writing analytical essays. I was willing to put in the effort and do my part in order to get a good grade in this English class and it worked. I feel that my performance in an English class has improved significantly.

No one said college was going to be easy. Over this past semester I have gained some support with creating better essays, but also lost some as well. Essays can be difficult if you do not know what you are doing, in some parts of this semester that’s how I felt. Being able to change from high school papers to college paper is different. Over the past semester I have learned to write about many different things that I have not done before, from different audiences to different types of essays, also learning to have to take other people’s thought and put that into my essay to help me improve. In this essay, there will be many things happening, like my effects of each different essay, reflect on the relationship between writing and critical thinking, how rough drafts help improve, and also the purpose goals of my writing.

Before taking this class, my writing was clumsy and short – I couldn’t melt down my ideas properly. They were everywhere. I didn’t have one concept I was focusing so it was confusing for the reader to find the concept, the core of my writing while reading it. I do think that my writing had changed over the semester. It became more honest as the perspective I perceived the world has changed. Even few months ago, I only concentrated only in bringing the moments in words, so the memory was distorted and the frankness of the writing was lost. Furthermore, I realized that writing should be rough, messy, but meticulously edited. Clumsy writing is different from messy. Messy writings are more honest and nail the point the writer wants to say. My classmates

Throughout this course, I have learned necessary skills used to analyze and respond to an argument, as well as how to develop my own. When I first started this class, I had a broad understanding of how to analyze a work and why that would be useful for my writing. Now, I know the proper steps behind analyzing a work and then synthesizing the information into my own essay. Looking back at the first three major papers in this course, I have been able to identify some of the strengths as well as some of the weaknesses within my writing, in order to create a plan of action for the last paper of the term.

Throughout this course we have done three sets of revision with our essays and learned a lot of skill to make our writing better and more professional. In general, I do not think I am a bad writer, but this class has taught me techniques that I can take with me as I advance into my college career.

The Writing II course has been my most interesting and rewarding class. Even though I could not complete the class, the course is not over for me. Before taking the class, I acknowledge I have much room to grow in writing, but I did not know where to start. Writing has always been unclear to me in many areas, and this class helped me to unblemished my understanding. In this class, I have acknowledged my weakest areas in writing, but my most astonished ambiguity was determiner noun and vocabulary. I did not know I was using determiner incorrectly and vocabulary span is so important in academic writing. The English Simplied book is an easy and an excellent learning tool that was used in this course. It covers all areas in determiners.

In English class this year, I have experienced new, interesting and useful skills and numerous other things. English 101 was a good class to take first quarter of this year because I gained more skills in writing for other classes that I will be taking. I improved my writing skills as well as my ability to annotate lengthy and challenging pieces of text. This English class helped me gained a better understanding of how I was able to improve skills on citing sources. During this class I got to learn about the types of writing, the writing process, the structures of an argument, audience, Literacy Narratives, Memoirs, and rhetorical situation. I truly appreciate the growth that I have gone through in this class.

Unquestionably, it is crazy to see my journey end with an overview of all the new strategies I learned about. This mini course has truly changed my perspective on how writing should be viewed at instead of just writing paragraphs upon paragraphs. Starting this course, I didn’t expect to learn so much about how to write, what to look for, and also the different strategies for reading and writing that could help benefit me in college. I thought this course was going to be the hardest online course, but I soon found out that it’s just preparing me for college and recreating ways for me to understand what college has in stored for me.

This semester I have been introduced to new concepts that, paper after paper, have helped me succeed in my classes. Professor Ulrich has done an adequate job of instructing me in this semester’s composition one class. Each one of my papers provides proof of my academic development as I acquired and applied new concepts. Additionally, across the span of my first daily writing to the last, although I admit to having ups and downs, there is evidence that I have retained what I have learned. Now, I have rhetorical knowledge, critical reading writing & thinking knowledge, a composing process, knowledge of conventions, and proper use of writing technologies; furthermore, each has cultivated me into a better student this fall semester.

Throughout my time enrolled in my English 121 class here at Pueblo Community College, I have been able to evaluate myself as a writer. I have seen more of my struggles and I have found some of my strengths. This class has been eye-opening to who I am as a writer and what I could able to accomplish in the future. I am not the perfect writer and I do have my faults, however, I know that this class have benefited my writing immensely and bettered my understanding of essay composition. Due to the mistakes I have made in my writing, I would classify myself as an average writer, based on the points of coherence, vocabulary, and editing and revision.

I can say with a high degree of confidence that AP Upper-Mid English has been unlike any other English course that I have taken during my academic career. Put plainly, the material and in-class instruction of the class is revelatory in every sense of the term, and, overall, the organization and matter of the course was exceptional. In terms of the organization of the course as a whole, I believe that the English Department was able to successfully distill all of the dominant aspects of learning that an English class epitomizes into the relatively short period of time that school is in session. In my experience, I have found the class to be organized and structured competently. The schedule, curriculum, and writing assignments were easy to understand and I felt as though I exited the classroom every class feeling as if I accomplished what I had to for that day and I had a definite grip on what to expect for the next class. That being said, I think it is also imperative for me to mention that the course was not overly constricting or overly-structured either -- the schedule had enough malleability to accommodate for impromptu activities. For instance, when Bob Levy, an acclaimed journalist for the Washington Post, visited Taft, our class used our period to have a invigorating conversation with him about the future of Internet Privacy, a conversation that I think was instructive and, in all likelihood, prepared me for the AP Exam just as much as the traditional class that we

I have benefited from English class activities this semester in a plethora of ways. I feel that all the activities in class are valuable. First, I feel that writing essays, assists students to ameliorate their writing skills. After my first essay draft, I noticed my writing skills meliorated, and my second draft grade postulated that. Second, I feel professor comments are helpful since I get additional accurate feedback, although student feedback is decent. Third and last, I am benefited by just attending Professor McQuaid’s class since I acquired new learning experiences in writing, and new friendships.