My English Course Analysis

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This English course has turned out quite better than what I would expect it to be for an online student. There was few difficult times for me in this course; however, it was not because of the assignments themselves. It was because of me having to have surgery the last week of this class. Which resulted in having to turn in my assignments earlier than my peers. There were many things that I did learn about the course as well as my thoughts on how a course may be different than what you would expect for a student.
In this course, I was expecting a large focus on the writing process as well as doing reading activities on finding a purpose of a paper or article. This class did reach my expectations regarding to improving on my skills in the writing process. However, I was surprised to see very little reading activities; when I went to my old college and took their English course, we had several reading exercises to assist us to understand the point of a writer’s paper. At the time of starting this course, I was naive on just how important the editing and revision portions were to writing an essay.

Before taking this course, I was overly confident in my writing; except, when it comes to writing a proper conclusion. I felt that my introduction and body paragraphs would flow evenly and when with conclusions, I tended to be too wordy in
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I have read all my reading material, including the learning computer system, before the time of their due dates. As well as turning in every assignment early in the week to get a head start on the following week’s assignments. However, I do understand that I got an early start on my assignments due to my surgery that I am having the last week of the course. In results, I was more motivated to turn all my tasks in early in order to spend the following days after my operation relaxing. Which made it more of a must to do my studies in a fast and detailed

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