My Weakness In English Class

Throughout the fall semester I have written over five papers for English 101. My weaknesses were shown in my writing, but you also taught me how I can better my work. The mass amount of comments that I received after each paper always frustrated me, it took a lot of swallowing both pride and fear to rewrite my papers. I felt that I was could come up with both good writing ideas and points, but one thing I struggled most with was my ability to analyze quotes. I struggled with all of our class’s learning goals at some point in the semester, and I feel that I have gotten better at all of them. I struggled to analyze, support my thesis well, organize my essay, produce a mature paper, and access sources. As the semester progressed I could really …show more content…
In my unit two essay, “Death by Trends,” I wrote about how trends are harmful to consumers because it deletes their individualities. The introduction of my paper was a little rough. It originally only had two sentence, usually paragraphs should be at least three sentence. I talked about the points I planned to touch base on, but there was no summary of the book. After reading a comment about needing a summary, I talked more about the kinds of trends that were in the novel. In my following paragraph, I included more about the lesions than my first ‘finished copy, “When the lesions,” that’s really all I had said. Instead I begin to talk about how celebrities have lesions and the toxic environment; the reason why lesions become popular and why people have them. In my third paragraph, I argued that if character’s in the novel did not have the best technology they were pushed down on the social ladder. In response to my six line quote there was a comment that said, “Remember, if you quote, you should take twice as long to unpack the quote,” (Polak). When I realized that I only had one line in response to the quote I revised. After the rewrite, I had about two full lines of a quote and two lines in response to that quote. Instead of having “Again, the trends of fashion get rid of individuality of yourself, everyone having the newest gear; as well as the newest, trendiest hairstyles and clothing,” …show more content…
There are tons of sources that should not be used because they do not have authentic material, you taught me that. My research paper was one of my most important and exciting works I have done this semester. It was a taxing paper, but it is a particularly important topic to me. The most challenging part of the writing process was figuring out how the paper needed to be laid out and how the sources fit into the paragraphs. While writing my research essay I knew that I needed to make sure all my quotes were analyzed well. Moreover, that it needed to be organized in a way that the reader could understand, because like you said they are not mind readers. While researching I often became frustrated when I could not find exactly what I wanted. However, I learned that sometimes I just needed to reword what I