Reflective Essay For English Class

During this semester, I have attempted to adjust to the courses requirements, expectations, and goals. I am still apprehensive with my writing style and feel that at times I could be missing the entire goal of the topic and what is asked of me in an assignment. At times, I over think a certain assignment and underestimate my abilities. By reflecting on my four previous essay assignments for this class, I have improved over the course in certain areas with my free writing techniques. I would need to tackle major challenges, such as sentence structure and support a stronger thesis statement to guide my body of essays. In my first orientation essay I had stated, “I hope to gain a better understanding of how to revise my work, would be able to write freely and to succeed in becoming a more natural writer.” Freewriting has constructed my writing easier by pulling out all my ideas, thoughts and then I am able to go back to organize, revise and try to conform my essay. I have strengthened, improved my writing with new techniques, learning about purpose, and finding new ways of combating writers block with free writing. In the second assignment, defining the word maturity; argue an understanding of the word and offer evidence with examples. In this essay my topic was strong, but my content in

I was so confident that I did a really good job and applied myself because I was talking about something I loved, my major in the medical assisting program. I made the mistake of overlooking to meet the goals of the assignment, therefore failed to complete the assignment correctly. In this essay instead of presenting an argument, it was written with factual categories of differences in communication in the workplace of a medical assistant. Also in my essay I did not contain a thesis statement so there was no classification, a break down in the