Reflective Essay: What I Learned In A Summer Class

I have taken a few classes in the past years but I had never taken a summer class. In elementary school, middle, and high school I didn't have summer school either. This semester in college I decided it was necessary for me to catch up on my studies, so I decided to enroll in to a summer class. I have been lucky to have chosen a great class with a very helpful teacher who has taught me so much. In this course we wrote four major essays, a narrative, an argumentative, a report essay and an analysis. I learned many things from the essays as well the class in general, although, there are a few things that I would like to improve for future classes. The first essay that we wrote was a narrative. For this specific essay, I wrote an autobiography because I felt that the essay would have more meaning if it was something personal. In this essay we had to focus on writing a story about anything as long as it would be interesting for us and the reader, and also had a point. Our other essay was an argumentative essay, in which we had to argue our stand on a certain issue. the topic that i chose for this essay is very personal for me, therefor i decided to stick to it no matter how hard it would be. in this essay our purpose was to try to convince the reader of our stand on a certain topic with …show more content…
i learned how to write multiple essay, and along with those essays I learned how to look for reliable information and how to cite it within the essay as well as writing a works cited page. for me it is important to be able to improve my writing techniques in order to be able to do better in the career i chose. i do however believe that what i learned this class i would not have learned anywhere else. Continuing to write essays and how to write them has always been something that I aspire to do. The things that I learned in this class are things that I hope to continue to develop and improve in future writing