AP English Course Analysis

A few months ago, when I was still in high school as a Senior I was placed in an AP English course because of the program I was in. The program placed all the students in the course regardless of if they were considered AP English ready. During the course, there were over several writing assignments, each on novels or quotes. However, my teacher kept informing me that my writing needs to improve to reach the college level. Yet I continued to complete assignments without understanding the mistakes, simply to earn the grade for because I turned an essay in. When I arrived at college, then enrolled in my UNIV150 course I was already advised that it was a bridge course to prepare me. Throughout the course, it has shown me where and what my mistakes are when I write. If I was directly placed in an ENGL110C course it would have meant I know how to write without making little to no mistakes. I am more prepared for an ENGL110C course because once I consider submitting an essay …show more content…
In any sentence where there was an error, he was a line and a comment with a code telling me the screw-up. Yet, as soon as I read all the comments I never knew why I did not catch them. Then I look at the bottom of the paper and it reads “Proofread!” Now that I have learned to proofread to actually understand the error instead of changing it because I was told it was wrong. In order to understand where I go wrong during the writing process, the grammar codes help me identify the sentence as grammatically correct or incorrect. Due to the idea that I tend to repeat the same mistakes in each of the assignments I consider to be “ready for submission.” Since I have compared each essay I know which codes to look for such as P1b, S4a, S5a, G6a, W4c, and S3e. Now, I can point out my errors with the codes to help improve my own writing without having a peer