Entering my first semester of college I did not believe I could produce university level writing straight from the beginning. It turned out that I was capable of writing at an undergraduate level and it took the tremendous writing professors at holy family to teach me that. After concluding my first writing class‚ also known as “Writing I”‚ I thought I was the best writing in my class. Mr. Litten and his writing class stripped me of that belief. I do not mean that in a harmful way. Writing II challenged
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I really enjoyed this assignment because it is a subject that really hits home for me. It was a reflection paper and that is only fitting because‚ believe me‚ I have done a lot of reflecting! My writing is getting better‚ and I hope I am starting to find my voice‚ but it is still takes me a lot of work and re-writes to get to the point of an acceptable polished draft. It is not that I mind the work. It is that I am sure that it should not be quite that much work. When I hear of how fast “real
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Reflective Journal As a reader‚ I have noticed that reading enhanced my analytical thinking and increased my vocabulary. About myself‚ I learned that I can value the purpose of a text and start thinking about further questions and imaginations. I’m good in fast reading and catching main ideas while scanning texts‚ and not bad at all in knowing the right phrases that could be quoted from the given author (which I thought could be difficult at that start of the course). Regarding the reading
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When one masters a certain practice‚ one becomes confident and nearly perfects the practice either because one had guidance or practiced continuously. I have not put myself in either one of those situations. To be honest‚ I write ‘put myself’ because I believe I had the choice of removing myself from classrooms to another better one; and the choice of being able to discipline myself to practice writing continuously. Although I must say‚ I have encountered exceptional teachers in which introduced
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I have learned much this semester‚ about writing in general‚ some things I have learned about are‚ the many different types of writing essay‚ there are such as‚ what a literacy narrative is‚ what academic writing is‚ how to write a definition essay‚ how to write a rhetorical analysis essay‚ as well as I have learned what‚ ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos are. In addition‚ I have learned what are the issues I have with writing‚ I’ve always known I had issues of writing but I didn’t learn until last semester
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Throughout this semester I have received a lot of input and criticism on my essays from my TA‚ my professor and fellow students. This semester I was fortunate to receive quick‚ fairly reliable‚ built in feedback. From the feedback that I have received by taking this class I believe that I have become a better writer as it was beneficial for the most part. Feedback that I received from my fellow students was occasionally helpful. It typically varied from week to week. One week I would write a paper
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approach to writing my letter was very different than my approach to a writing a typical research essay. Instead of appealing to a professor‚ I was appealing to someone on more of an emotional level instead of an intellectual level. Although I discussed some facts in my letter‚ I did not go into nearly as much depth as I would in an essay. I also was trying to ask for something in my letter‚ where in an essay‚ I am trying to give the reader information not gain information from the reader. I felt more
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Self- Reflective Essay For my self-reflective essay‚ I chose to cover and analyze three academic articles instead of a book. A lot of the concept and readings we discussed during this class have sparked an interest in me wanting to learn more about how certain aspects of the media effect certain groups of people. The first two articles‚ I will discuss are more specific and in depth studies dealing with the effects of the media on African American Women. The last article‚ is a study on the effects
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Reflective memo- I have decided to revise to of my earlier essays‚ my literary biography and essay one. I chose these two pieces because I thought that they needed more work to be done on them. When I put my essays in the peer revision discussions‚ I received suggestions on what I could fix. There were a couple of times where I didn’t change what was suggested and my essays turn out a little worse then I expected them to. Three of the questions that I looked to help me change what was wrong in them
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A difficulty I am currently going through is a struggle that I have had for several years. What my challenge was is that I struggle with school itself. More specifically‚ I struggle with just stop what I am doing and just write down the work. This problem is currently affecting my class strongly and keeping me from possibly graduating. As I am going through the last months of this year I am learning the severity of the problem and how I should deal with it in the future. Now I was not trying purposely
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