Personal Writing Statement: A Great Learning Experience In English 102

Personal writing Statement

This semester in English 102 has been a great learning experience for me as a student. With each writing project I have grown as a writer learning new was of conducting and structuring an essay with MLA, or APA. Also this class has taught me how to create new works research writing from one original writing assignment, which I thought to be very helpful and interesting to learn rather than writing a whole new paper. English 102 was also a great experience with sentence structure and grammar which was another area of writing that I believe I have excelled in. The four writing projects that was completed throughout the semester consisted of a summary and response assignment, synthesized research, argumentative research and an informative paper.

While writing the Summary and response paper the most challenging thing for me to get through was the topic. I felt as though it is an important subject that needs to dealt with by our government but it is extremely overdone and talked about. While the simplest thing for this paper was all of the information was already at my disposal I didn’t need to go searching for the information. While writing this paper I learned how to properly construct and execute a works cited page. Also, knowing how to properly site books, articles, and personal interviews. It was extremely helpful and for me

What I found challenging was learning how to write in APA format. I have only used it maybe two times before this assignment so I had to learn how to construct APA properly. My MLA is defiantly my stronger writing format but learning how to do APA is going to help me when I move forward into my education and even my career. Turning the Synthesis paper into an argumentative without writing a whole new paper was very interesting for me. It showed me how exactly the formats of the paper changed and how one can create a new paper out of an old