This semester has had a lot of work especially in English II‚ but I’m glad it was like that because I have learned a lot in my English class. I’ll be talking about a few things that I learned this semester. Like discrimination‚ debating‚ and how to convince people to change their mind about something. In the beginning of this class I learned about discrimination‚ which is when people treat others different because of their skin color. In the book “The Secret Life of Bees‚” the main character‚ who
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Reflective Essay It is amazing that my journey as an English: Literature major has almost come to a close so quickly. My path has been a smooth and enjoyable one‚ and it is with great sadness that I begin to gather up the ends of my literary education. I know that I will continue to grow and develop as a critical reader/thinker throughout my lifetime‚ but I will sorrowfully miss the educational structure that has shaped my literary understanding for the last three years. I consider my greatest
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Completing English 102 Before entering an english class‚ such as one taught by Professor Hunter‚ students must come into the class prepared to learn‚ and be willing to learn new things. When coming into Professor Hunter’s class‚ I knew I had to have some prior knowledge of writing papers‚ how to make a works cited page‚ know how to do an annotated bibliography‚ and most importantly know how to revise my papers so I could turn in all papers confent that I would not have many grammatical and punctuation
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The skills I had developed up until this point further evolved in the AP (Advanced Placement) English class I attended during my senior year. AP English was the most challenging literature class I took during my time in high school; it was also the most enjoyable and rewarding. We read literary works such as “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver; “The Invisible Man” by Ralph Waldo Emerson; “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley; “The Things They Carried” by ???; and “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen
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After enrolling in the Dual Credit English Composition 1 class‚ I was afraid of many aspects of the course. I was petrified of meaningless things: deadlines‚ word counts‚ and plagiarism. Although each of those aspects are important to consider and be mindful of‚ they are‚ in no way‚ anything to worry over. I lost confidence in myself and my writing‚ through my own frightening thoughts. Almost a full semester into the class‚ I know now that through hard work and careful‚ in depth writing that I can
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organizing‚ and revising an essay is not a one-time job‚ but rather it is a process. Within the past months of English 102‚ I have learned many strategies and concepts not only about writing‚ but also analyzing other people’s works rhetorically. In order to further develop my skill in writing and evaluating‚ I will reflect upon the advertisement rhetorical analysis‚ the construction of arguments‚ and the development of structure and organization. To begin‚ the first major essay I completed was a rhetorical
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have went over a lot of material and in turn I have learned a lot. A major thing I have learned from this first chapter is rhetoric. Rhetoric is the fluency and ability to get to the point across in your writing while using all the “laws” of the English language correctly. Although hard to do‚ in order to have good rhetoric you must avoid Engfish‚ show don’t tell‚ and have good word choice. Engfish is writing how you think someone else would want you to write instead of how you would like. Nearly
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Reflective Writing on “How will my writing classes help me learn to write or compose?” I took English 110 last semester and this semester I am taking English 120. Now that the semester is about to end the time has come to write reflective letter discussing all the learning outcomes I gained from English 110 and English 120 especially English 120. English classes I took in high school were easy. The first ever challenging English class I took was English 110. It was a great class for me.
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I participated in an interactive oral discussion; about the novel by Nawal El Sadawi named ‘The Woman at Point Zero’. From the interactive oral‚ I was able develop a new idea which I had never thought of. The idea was that the characters in the novel were two dimensional‚ so that the main character Firdaus is able to change‚ which she is not. The idea stemmed from what Ashleigh said about how Firdaus has the power of rejection using her physical body. So I said that it was a delusion for women and
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Reflective Essay Jazmine Caballero Walden University Dr. Paul Trautman EDUC 6731: Assessment for Student Learning June 28‚ 2015 Reflective Essay I can give faith that my assumptions about assessment have been changed throughout this course. Dr. Davies stated‚ “When students are involved in the classroom assessment process‚ they are more engaged and motivated‚ and they learn more” (Reeves‚ 2007‚ p.31). Therefore‚ when creating are lesson plans we should establish appropriate learning goals
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