Looking Back Research Paper

Looking Back As I ponder on the assignments I have accomplished this semester and how far I have come simply amazes me. I was not prepared in the beginning for this course to be as difficult as it was. People often think going into a class that it should be easy since they did well in high school. That simply is not the case. No matter what class I apply for in the future I have learned to go in to it with a different attitude that I do not know everything because I have forgotten many things since high school. Looking back on this course in reflection I realize the difficulty I had with punctuation/grammar, organization skills, and procrastination in completing the assignments. From the beginning of the course until now my punctuation/grammar skills have improved a great deal. I still have a ways to go on improving and mastering that skill, but I have always had difficulty in that area. My first essay that I completed had a tremendous amount of punctuation errors, run on sentences, and word choice errors. This was not a very good thing considering my first essay was barely two pages. As the class went on and we completed more assignments, as well as quizzes I began to see improvements …show more content…
In fact that was what my first essay was about. I always see the deadline is a ways off so I continue putting it off because I have other things going on around me. Then before I know it my deadline is up and I am scrambling around frantically to complete everything that needs completed. This is never a good thing to do with any aspect in life. During this course I realized quickly I could not procrastinate all the time. I did some things, but some I did not. I never put off taking the quizzes because those were my strengths in this class. My attitude has evolved since this course that if I start early my mind is not so rushed and I can think more clearly, therefore, my essays are