Enhancing Skills through EH 101: My Journey

My Progression Through EH 101 Throughout the first year of college the majority of students must start their core curriculum out by taking basic classes that they are required by students of all majors. EH 101 is one of these classes that I have now partaken in. During the semester in which I have taken this class the class has assisted me in enhancing my abilities in both social and formal settings by expanding my knowledge on different types of language and literary works. Ultimately, this has lead to an informative and thought provoking class that has broadened my abilities as both a writer and a professional person. The most beneficial skill that EH 101 has elaborated on over the course of the class is the importance of addressing professors

Some of these less than satisfactory sentences came in my visual analysis paper. For example the sentence “These colors help to reinforce the feelings of freedom that the street art style gives off.” was well worded, but did not give the reader a clear enough information to truly grasp the idea that I was trying to introduce to them. Another example of a sentence being unable to fully explain the point I was attempting to address occurred in the rhetorical analysis in which I stated “ “This could be para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise” reinforces the optimistic tone of the end of the song and allows the listener to not only feel happy, but also feel relaxed, as if someone had taken an enormous burden off of the listener’s shoulders.” While, again, this sentence is structured well, the sentence does not effectively explain why the feeling of freedom has an emotional connection to readers. These instances of mishandling sentence are now very abrupt and obvious and were incredibly easy to correct in my revision papers, because of the knowledge that I have been able to gain in the past semester in my EH 101

Throughout my high school career, I structured introductory paragraphs flimsily and barely put any thought behind the content of the words being used. This was due to the lack of emphasis my teachers had me put into the introductory paragraph; and this lack of emphasis resulted in a reduction in the clarity and absence of consistency throughout the entirety of my papers. One such example of this was my overlooking of placing one of the subjects of my body paragraph in my thesis statement. This mixup occurred in my visual analysis paper and was eyebrow raising to say the least. The paragraph in question was the paragraph on the point of “The artist’s choice to have the street art represent a nazi style war on creativity also helps to reinforce the severity of the issue that the band is addressing.” This point resulted in a fairly strong body paragraph that was a large piece of the explanation to my main point and would have benefited the introduction immensely had it been mentioned. Overall, the knowledge that I have gained in this EH 101 class has definitely allowed myself to grow as an author and the experiences in it have allowed me to write much clearer and more concise essay