English Course Analysis

Good afternoon, I am an alumna of the high school you are currently working in. The reason I am contacting you today is for the reason that, as an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis, I wanted to provide you with some feedback on how I believe the direction English courses should go. I am interested in helping you and other high school teachers identify new strategies in teaching to help out high school students benefit from a high school English course and be able to apply their knowledge into a college level English course.

My experience in English, constructed my view on the overall subject. I used to believe that English was a fairly simple subject. Throughout the four years of high school, I was taught to follow rules, which would tell me what to do and what not to. I may say, this was what made writing simple. However, after years of the influence of rules when approaching writing made it difficult to approach writing in the manner that college professors expect a person to write.

Editing and revising are important steps to take in consideration for all written papers. However, in high school it seemed to be something I came to misunderstand. After writing or typing up an assignment, I would usually edit my work by repairing misspelled words, sentences and …show more content…
Editing and revising usually consisted of letting a peer look over the paper. As someone looked over the paper, they would have to look for grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation errors. As a matter of fact, I came to confuse editing with revision because I used to believe that editing was revising the paper. I also believed that it was the portion which mattered. However, I came to realize that editing is the first stage in making the writing look perfect and revising was the stage that affected the way the audience understood the