English Composition Class Analysis

Being a student at Gateway you can learn more things that you ever thought imaginable. Though I have only been at this college for less than a year I have gained a vast amount of knowledge. Both in education and real life lessons that I will carry with me for eternity. In particular my English Composition class as well as my Intro to College Writing I learned an abounding amount of things that have shaped how I write and shaped the way I think about things. In my English classes I grew as a student and writer through the three units we did, music, movies and games. In the music unit I learned an abundance of things. One thing in particular that was a big milestone for me was taking something small and pulling the meaning out of it. It was hard for me at first to write an entire essay on a single song. If in class we didn't do little …show more content…
They have evolved incredibly over the years. Going from no sound or color to insane graphics, sound and color. The one thing that has seemed to stay the same is the love that people have for movies including myself. What I didn't really think about too intensely was the meaning behind the movie and what the producer wanted the viewer to take out of it. In English Composition as well as Intro to College Writing we were really asked to dig deep and think about that. Having to watch Ted talks and having to do activities really helped when it came to writing the essay. The whole time when I was prepping and working on my rough draft I was thinking about what the producer was trying to get across as well as the significance of movies in society. Again like in the music unit we took a day to work of the APA format for referencing as well as making sure our in text citations were right. I feel especially lucky for the conferences we had to do in Intro to College Writing class because I was a partly confused on the in text citations and I was able to get the help I so tremendously