I appreciate this chance to share with you my academic journey in English 101 and also thank you for taking your time to read my letter. Although I am a freshman who just placed my very first step on college journey and also one of the few ESL students in the class, I did not take this as a discouragement to complete and pass this course with a good grade. Still, I have to admit that English 101 is challenging and difficulty at some level for me but it helps me to develop my skills in writing and critical thinking. During this course, I was having difficulty brainstorming the pieces in my mind into a complete and organized argumentative essay. It took me a lot of time choosing ideas and put everything on my mind constructively onto the paper.
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I have been stressing out for many hours brainstorming and outlining my paper. Indeed, conducting a good thesis that consider both arguments from the materials and supporting it with quality evidences and details are not as simple as I thought. My first assignment is a summary and response essay from the article “College Prepare People for Life” by Freeman Hrabowski. At the moment, I struggled addressing a good thesis taking the sided arguments but still aiming the purpose of informing the message of the article. For my thesis statement, I wrote “ Colleges are needed for students to achieve their goals, search for good jobs, and more importantly, prepare them for life; but without knowing basic but necessary information about it, you are somewhat wasting your time.” It was a long thesis but did not concisely point out the intention of the author since I falsely included my own opinion into it. After taking the suggestion from my professor and spending time rereading my work, I edited the thesis: “ Hence, students need to attend college for higher education in order to achieve their goals, search for good jobs, get ready for life, also knowing primary materials about the institutions will help them getting there.” This thesis is more accurate to the main point of the article stating the importance of higher education and the benefits of having basic knowledge about the considering institutions. Beside learning how to draft a strong thesis, I also learned how to use evidences and details from the sources to support my thesis throughout the essay with solid
I have been stressing out for many hours brainstorming and outlining my paper. Indeed, conducting a good thesis that consider both arguments from the materials and supporting it with quality evidences and details are not as simple as I thought. My first assignment is a summary and response essay from the article “College Prepare People for Life” by Freeman Hrabowski. At the moment, I struggled addressing a good thesis taking the sided arguments but still aiming the purpose of informing the message of the article. For my thesis statement, I wrote “ Colleges are needed for students to achieve their goals, search for good jobs, and more importantly, prepare them for life; but without knowing basic but necessary information about it, you are somewhat wasting your time.” It was a long thesis but did not concisely point out the intention of the author since I falsely included my own opinion into it. After taking the suggestion from my professor and spending time rereading my work, I edited the thesis: “ Hence, students need to attend college for higher education in order to achieve their goals, search for good jobs, get ready for life, also knowing primary materials about the institutions will help them getting there.” This thesis is more accurate to the main point of the article stating the importance of higher education and the benefits of having basic knowledge about the considering institutions. Beside learning how to draft a strong thesis, I also learned how to use evidences and details from the sources to support my thesis throughout the essay with solid