Throughout the English 191 course, my writing technique has slightly improved. The essay responses created each week, made me think critically about the writing in Back To The Lake. The book gave me good examples of different situations, aims, and purposes in writing. The textbook helped show what could go into my essays and how to use them. I also liked how the book set up sentences for specific subjects. One of the most memorable essays was “Dog” by Richard Russo. It seemed to be a happy story about how a boy really wants a dog but it then it turned grim and the dog died. The personal essay made me recall memories that I had forgotten. It was the most easiest essay because I could talk about something I love to do. Also, since I knew about everything that happened, I …show more content…
I wanted to sound more professional, yet understandable. I learned valuable information from this assignment for my future career in nursing. The most beneficial writing piece in this course was the persuasive argument essay. I learned how to link my opinions with the facts and statistics I researched. Although I had most of the background information from the previous essay, I still had to interpret my findings. With several supportive facts and statistics, I gradually developed my main points and a critical perspective. I have also improved on evaluation and revision of my work along with other’s work. I enjoyed reading other people’s essays because it gave me incite to what I was missing in my paper. I also liked to evaluate their essays, so that I could see what was grammatically correct in different ways. In the rhetorical analysis essay, it was nice to see how other people interpreted the same thing, in different ways. The different types of writing in this course made me focus on the details. As time progressed I could see that the more time I took to edit my work, the more they turned out
Another thing that I learned from taking this course is how to build a better writing and reading skills. Acknowledging reading and writing skills will help me to succeed in my other university courses.
The course pushed me to find my inner creativity and express myself in my writings. Each day I was assigned a journal topic that I had the
Entering this course I was worried because I have struggled with writing in the past, and writing has never been my strongest area. I feared writing classes in middle and high school, and had the same expectations for this course. I had wondered if I was ready for college English, and was worried that my skills and abilities would not be one the level they needed to be for college courses. My attitude and understanding of my writing process have both changed since the beginning of this semester. One thing that really helped my attitude and confidence was the fact that I was able to complete the assignments and get a decent grade. I was worried that I might not be able to do college level writing, and when I started completing the assignments and learning new ways to write my confidence and attitude changed. Another thing that really helped me throughout this course was that there was plenty of reading and information available to guide me through my assignments. I realized that there was more freedom when it comes to writing than I had experienced in high school. Being able to write more freely, and the freedom to choose what subjects I would write over made the assignments more enjoyable and easier to
Without doubt besides to know how to write a sentence, it is vital to know the parts of an essay. In this course I had the opportunity to go through different types of essays that helped me to understand how an introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion work. Also, how these parts are connected together and make a different function depending of what type of essay I am writing for example, argumentation, narration, process, or any other. Although, I cannot say I became a professional writer after have learned this points, I can say, I became a better one.
Throughout this course, we had multiple assignments that were aimed at improving us as writers. I am sure that everyone took something different from this course, and I am sure that each student took more from some areas than others; however for me there were three major things that I saw that I benefited from most. Our weekly craft lessons, grammar plan, but most of all, observational learning. Our weekly craft lessons have introduced us to multiple writing strategies. These strategies have helped turn my papers from elementary papers that were written below my expected grade level to papers more on par with my peers.
In this class, I learned how to use the MLA format correctly in my essays, and how to use tone in my essays to persuade my audience. This class taught me how to comprehend speeches by politicians and to know what they are talking about when they say certain things. I got to read persuasive essays to learn the different ways they can persuade me and what approaches the author took by nothing that. Another thing I learned in this class was how to identify and use logos, pathos, and ethos in essays.
As a first year college student this course has taught me many core aspects to writing and critical thinking. Writing has not been one my strongest points in education, but I feel this course has helped me make strides in writing in many ways. This course has enlightened me on various aspects of writing and has taught me many different ways of writing quality essays. A few things that this course has taught me is how construct an acceptable thesis statement, how to prove my points in body paragraphs, and how to properly cite sources. Although I have learned an immense deal of writing skills within this course there some things I feel I can improve upon, such as, introductions and properly heading papers.
The course has shown vividly that the acquisition of writing styles and transfer of skills
As the year progressed, it only became more difficult to keep up with the assignments coming in, due to the fact that there were so many things to do. During my free time, I would attempt to work ahead in this course, but I realized that there is no rush when it comes to writing if you want your stories to be good and easily comprehendible to the reader. One assignment that came to mind that helped me with the writer's perspective on things was the process analysis essay. This assignment made me grow not just as a writer, but as a devoted person to find key information about the topic at hand. Secondly, this course helped me understand the value of revising your work, when it comes to grammar, punctuation, and word clarity.
...larify the structure and destination in which I was headed. By revising my essays I was able to make the content and message seem more important and made the final drafts seem a slight degree better than the originals, but the finals were better nonetheless. The instructor did a very good job in guiding me and helping find my way into writing by focusing on some of the problems I was facing and clarified them so that I would better understand them. The instructor helped me expand on my grammatical by helping me discover what it was that I lacked while constructing basic sentence structure; the usage of commas and semi-colons, quotations, and how to sight titles of books and articles within an essay. This English 101 course I have attended has helped me develop better writing skills as well as helped me create more profound essays and a very satisfying research paper.
Having someone from the outside perspective, rather than my own, has been extremely helpful. Both collaboration from my peers and instructor benefited me a lot throughout this course and using this skill in my future classes and career will help me be more successful. This skill will continue to be vital in everyday life. Knowledge of Conventions At the beginning of this course, I had little to no knowledge of conventions in terms of writing essays. Then, I was provided with one skill that came from my knowledge of conventions, which was learning how to incorporate the I.C.C.C.E structure into my writing.
A persuasive essay takes a position on a topic and attempts to prove that position.
It was a task that took a significant amount of time and effort, but was truly an excellent learning experience. I found it intriguing how much the original essay can improve or modify over time; moreover, how different ideas flow through your brain each second. The revision of my essays taught me an enormous deal about writing and was genuinely pleasurable to do.
At the start of this class, I made a goal to develop my writing skills to better prepare me for other courses for my degree. I knew English 106 would be different compared to any other English or college courses that I have taken. I knew English 106 environment will let me grow in diverse writing dimensions. My long serving years of experience in the military has exposed me to many cultures around the globe. In just seven weeks of the course, I have seen some improvement in my writing. This course has afforded me with several techniques that have made writing not only a little bit easier but also more in-depth resulting in a higher level of academic writing versus my normal military style writing. Now I understand the writing process and
Over the period of time that I was in this course, I thought it would be a very simple and easy to finish class. But as time went on, I found myself to be demanded more of what I think, what I feel, what must be relied on my ability to understand the concepts and conventions of not only the essays, but of what goes on in the writers mind when writing.