English101 Reflection

Throughout the course of this class, there has been a considerable difference in my writing. Since starting English101, I have tried to make changes in my pieces to better fir the leaning goals of the class. I think that the first learning goal is relevant in the first paper I wrote oddly enough. I really wanted to do well on the paper so I spent more time analyzing the details of it. I knew that I did not know a lot about patriotism besides how thankful I feel to have been born in the United States. That is why I decided do some research based on studies and how patriotism can help to better a country. For example, RHEG, a website that carefully studies patriotisms effect on nations, says, “Patriotism helps to stabilize the country because it …show more content…
The forth learning goal is something that I believe can always be improved on, but I think I did the best on this in my research paper. I think that the language I used in my final paper is much more mature and academic in comparison to my first paper. As I was revising my first two papers I noticed that I did not use the same language or phases in my last two papers. I think that my research paper is proof that I am now able to produce more mature content then I was able to make at the beginning of the class. Finally, the fifth learning goal also ties in with my research paper because I feel like I was working with so many outside sources I had to make sure that I was using accurate information. I also tried to find examples that are really recent and not from ten years ago. I think that this is really obvious towards the end of the seventh page when I decided to use the death of Harambe to defend the distance between the animals and visitors that come about in sanctuaries. Overall, I can see how the learning goasl apply to my papers, even if I need to work on them a little