Becoming A Better English Class Analysis

How to become a better English Student

Have you ever wondered how you’re going to do in a class and the result you end up with? Well that’s my exact thought when signing up for English 111. I had already taken this course once and things didn’t go as well as I thought they would. I started off pretty good and knew I was going to pass, but at the end of the semester I guess me and the teacher had a different outlook on how well I did. Let’s just say English is not my favorite subject and has never been. I knew the second time taken it, I had to do better and that was my ultimate goal for English 111 this semester. This semester has shown me that I need to stay more focused, come to class and not procrastinate. Those are the three …show more content…
I personally think I have progressed in writing conventions. Such as my spelling, grammar and punctuation. Those are the most important things when writing. Not only writing conventions but writing research as well. For example, we had to include our research in the argumentative essay. Some people think that writing research only plays a part with research papers, but if you look at it every paper other than a reflection essay has some type of research you’ve included. One area that I we always used and I hated to include in essay was the meal plan. That’s all we heard this semester was use the meal plan. I have a good understanding of it just hate to try to include it in a paper or structure the paper in the meal plans order. I never could use the meal plan exactly the way some professor taught it. I honestly have my own style of how I write papers and essays and the meal plan always confuses me when trying to include it. There are always processes many use to progress in certain assignments that need to be done. For example when we wrote our first pre-test essay, it wasn’t much to it but just writing off the top of your head. Which is easy because you’re just able to write without a specific structure you’re asked to use. Then there’s the papers that need more of a structure process. For example we worked on many rhetorical analysis but I personally think that the argumentative essay use a better process. As far starting with an outline and conducting research. For my argumentative essay I first completed my outline. The outline really helped because it helps you get an idea of the paper will be structured. After finishing the outline you’re ready to put your paper together. You basically have each part of your paper you just have to put it together and figure of where each paragraph should be placed. Of course after completing the paper then