Egl 202 Week 1 Reflection

ENGL 202 was a tremendous experience for my second quarter at Humphrey's University. I feel that I have benefited from the knowledge gained from the course and learned vastly to working and analyzing not only my own writings but also with other writings. In the beginning of this course, we have learned how to specifically understand how a well-versed paper can be defined and what it is not. The first essay that we analyzed was based off a concerned parent to beauty pageants for children under 10 years of age. We first analyzed her topic and learned that while it is a concerning issue, her essay was no more than a simple rant that lacks research and specific data that would be relevant to her essay. From there we analyzed other topics that, while they were well-researched topics, they had specific “holes” in them that affected their credibility, such as a lack of authority towards the author or missing valuable research. One in particular was to an author that relied on emotion for being against the death penalty. These helped us to analyze essays better and to learn what not to do in a research assignment. This next element of
The one attribute that I have had difficulty in the past for research assignments was proper citation. In other English classes that I have taken in the past, I was only given a website, OWL Purdue, to read, follow, and nothing else in the end. In this course, I was able to go in depth with learning proper citation for MLA and APA format. For one or two class session, I spent time how to properly cite my sources and build a strong reference page. Before this class, I would just simply use a website known as Knightcite that made the references for me and hoped that they were written correctly. In here, I was taught about putting the reference page in alphabetical order and even received practice so I can learn how to do the citation correctly on my