English Reflective Essay

This semester entering English 102 I thought of myself as a bad writer with a lot to say and no idea how to coordinate it or express it. A big reason why I took English stretch composition was to strengthen my writing skills. I feel like I have a better idea of where to put my ideas but I really need help with the technical writing and how to do research papers correctly. My concerns over the semester are not the same as they were at the beginning, they have changed. One of my concerns was that I wouldn’t know how to organize a college essay, but that concern is gone now. A new concern I have this semester is my run on sentences and the punctuation and the lack thereof.

The writing view for me has changed this semester in the sense of the multiple drafts and doing it in bits and pieces and making it

In Bob Mayberry’s article “Why Doesn’t This Look Like High School English?” He hits the topic that having your teacher correct and mark up your paper isn’t as beneficial as we thought. “ From the markings your teacher leaves scrawled across your paper, you will figure out how to rewrite it. Right? And from this habit of making the improvements teachers suggest to you year after year, you will learn to be a better writer. Wrong.”(2) This really was a shocker to me but made sense in the sense of they just tell you exactly what they want you to fix and you fix it and get a better grade but that in itself isn’t learning. You are just doing what's on that paper instead of thinking about what needs to be fixed to make the paper better not just for the teacher but better as a whole. By having a classmate or someone else give me advice it can help me learn where I need to grow and improve as well as teach me to learn how to ask for help in the areas I believe need improvement. And that's a skill I learned in college this