When I started English Composition 1 class, I felt that I needed to improve my writing skills. Most of what I had learned in high school was different than that of my college English course. During this semester, our class worked on several different types of essays which included basic argument essay, rhetorical analysis, synthesis essay, and finally a reflective essay. After almost completing the course, I feel like I have grown to become a more prepared writer because of all the useful information that I have learned. I know that everything that I have learned in this semester will be useful for my future classes and work, where I will be most likely writing scholarly essays, lab reports, and so on. Through this class, I have learned that
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The rhetorical analysis was the paper that I wrote on which I did well. When I started doing this paper, the first step for me was a little rough because I was not sure how I was going to start the paper and there are some parts in the reading that were hard for me to understand. However, I tried to figure it out using a dictionary to give me more of an understanding about the reading. From there, I started researching and finding quotes to use in my paper so that I could begin writing my outline. So, when I began the first draft process it became a lot easier because of my detailed outline structure. Upon completion of the paper and before turning it in to my instructor, I emailed my rough draft to some of my classmates for peer review to provide me feedback about my paper. Some gave minimal feedbacks and some gave dozens of comments which is good because it helped me to make my paper better. Just like Kyle Landis, one of my classmate who checked my paper and commented saying, “Rework for conciseness and clarity” (Landis), also he caught a few typos and format errors in my paper which really helped me to revise my paper before turning it into our instructor. I constantly took all the comments that I received from my classmates, as well as the advice from my English instructor and will apply these things to the other papers that I will
The rhetorical analysis was the paper that I wrote on which I did well. When I started doing this paper, the first step for me was a little rough because I was not sure how I was going to start the paper and there are some parts in the reading that were hard for me to understand. However, I tried to figure it out using a dictionary to give me more of an understanding about the reading. From there, I started researching and finding quotes to use in my paper so that I could begin writing my outline. So, when I began the first draft process it became a lot easier because of my detailed outline structure. Upon completion of the paper and before turning it in to my instructor, I emailed my rough draft to some of my classmates for peer review to provide me feedback about my paper. Some gave minimal feedbacks and some gave dozens of comments which is good because it helped me to make my paper better. Just like Kyle Landis, one of my classmate who checked my paper and commented saying, “Rework for conciseness and clarity” (Landis), also he caught a few typos and format errors in my paper which really helped me to revise my paper before turning it into our instructor. I constantly took all the comments that I received from my classmates, as well as the advice from my English instructor and will apply these things to the other papers that I will