English 111 Student Analysis

My Improvement as a Student

My biggest improvement in this English 111 class was my writing. Writing tasks that were assigned greatly strengthened my overall performance throughout the course, preparing me for the future classes. The environment made me feel at ease, helping me evolve as a student, and as a person. The environment made me feel at ease, preparing me for future classes. Another large achievement of mine that I displayed in the class, was my ability to talk comfortably with the other students. The variety of group activities we did allowed me to openly speak my opinion, leading to a better overall performance with my work and papers. The English 111 class enabled me to have better participation in and out of class and allowed

me to obtain new resources on learning new processes to use for future assignments.
Class participation is one of the finest ways for student improvement.

I am determined to have a perfect attendance when it comes to my college classes. Keeping a balanced attendance allows me to be up to date with assignments and set an excellent example of myself. Participating in class activities like writing on the board or reading aloud examples, was not my one of my biggest strong suits. Although I spoke out in my assigned groups, which brought a lot more attention to myself, I did not openly speak out in front of the whole class and volunteer myself. This is a certain area that I need to improve on. Although I did not speak out as openly as I should, I always came fully prepared. Being prepared and organized helped keep everything I needed together so I could perform at my fullest potential. In addition, I made sure to create reminders on my phone notifying what I would need, when to work on a certain assignment for the class, and especially for my conferences with Dr. Kennedy (refer to page 3). For my future classes, I will continue to have perfect attendance, be organized, and practice my writing. In time, I will become better at speaking out in

class.
During this English 111 class, I learned new processes and resources to use when preparing to write an essay.

When I was assigned the Pre-Test essay, I created my own version of an outline. The outline consisted of the following: bullet points for the introduction paragraph, three paragraph sections, and a conclusion paragraph (refer to page 4). This outline presented itself to be poor, useless, and non efficient; however, Dr. Kennedy provided me with outlines that were far more applicable. The process I used for the Revised Pre-Test Essay was a lot neater and sought out more properly. The outline consisted of my thesis statement, followed by topic sentences, and then examples that went with the thesis statement (refer to page 5). Although I changed my prompt for the Revised Pre-Test Essay, it proved to be much more superior and clearly written. Dr. Kennedy also provided online resources to check for any grammatical errors throughout my essays. Without Dr. Kennedy’s knowledge of Paperrater, I would not have known what to improve grammatically. Using these several processes encouraged me to become a more improved, and higher organized

student.
The English 111 class has allowed me to become a better student who participates and is able to accept, and use, new processes and resources for all of my future writing assignments. This class has better prepared me for my next English class, English 112. Being able to take a college writing class while still being in high school has granted me a taste as of what college professors look for in their students’ writing. Being able to write a quality essay will help me in every aspect in the future such as when applying for colleges or a job. Dr. Kennedy’s English 111 class proved to be very difficult and challenging, however, it has made me feel stronger and more confident in my writing.