During my semester in English 1302 with Ms. Williams, I had the hope of finishing this course successfully with an “A” based on how well I did in English 1301. I found myself frustrated and confused most of the time. With this class, came my biggest fear. Fear of not being able to pass the course. Ms. Williams’ class has been one of the most challenging courses I have been. It helped me grow as a writer, reader and built my vocabulary. There have been numerous times that I struggled to understand how the questions or instructions came across to me. I had challenges and progress with first, writing the research paper, second, the reader-response essay and third I gained a better understanding of being a writer. Henceforth, I have made it a point
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I was tired when searching through databases to find information for my writing not because I was lazy but because I worked overnight and by the time I got to my work, I was already tired. Also, most of the articles I found were of single pages and all I could think of at that time was not enough information to work with, which was hard for me to handle. I did not grasp the understanding at the time that, I could source other outside data to support that of the article. An example is when I wrote my first partial draft. I found myself using only the information from the half-page report that I was using as my source, and by the time I finished writing, most of the vital information I should have used for my body of my introduction. It was when Ms. Williams brought this to my attention that I knew I had to seek help on campus although I was taking this course …show more content…
Even though I am not able to pinpoint exactly where I fell short, one thing I do know is that I did struggle a lot taking this course online. Besides the fact that I was struggling, I did not give up on myself. I regularly read the material that was given to the class and source help from the writing center routinely. An example will be the unfortunate result I got from the Reader-responds essay I wrote. I did struggle with most of the coursework, which left me wondering whether it had to do with the fact that I had to combine a full-time job with my already packed writing
I was tired when searching through databases to find information for my writing not because I was lazy but because I worked overnight and by the time I got to my work, I was already tired. Also, most of the articles I found were of single pages and all I could think of at that time was not enough information to work with, which was hard for me to handle. I did not grasp the understanding at the time that, I could source other outside data to support that of the article. An example is when I wrote my first partial draft. I found myself using only the information from the half-page report that I was using as my source, and by the time I finished writing, most of the vital information I should have used for my body of my introduction. It was when Ms. Williams brought this to my attention that I knew I had to seek help on campus although I was taking this course …show more content…
Even though I am not able to pinpoint exactly where I fell short, one thing I do know is that I did struggle a lot taking this course online. Besides the fact that I was struggling, I did not give up on myself. I regularly read the material that was given to the class and source help from the writing center routinely. An example will be the unfortunate result I got from the Reader-responds essay I wrote. I did struggle with most of the coursework, which left me wondering whether it had to do with the fact that I had to combine a full-time job with my already packed writing