Reflective Essay: My First College English Class

While attending my first college English class we focused on four main strategies when developing essays throughout the semester. These four strategies or processes where among the most common when developing and creating an essay which are journaling and in class free writing, peer-review sessions, group work, and multi-drafting or revising. I had learned most of these previously in high school so I had no problem with them and if I did the learning curve was almost nonexistent.
The first one being journaling and in-class free writing I felt was the second most helpful. The reason that this was such a help to me was because for me one of the hardest parts of developing and creating an essay is the beginning. Through mainly the in-class free writing I could put everything out there on a piece of paper with no …show more content…
One of the most important lessons that I learned was that it is very wise to make an appointment if you are going to need to talk or interview a professional or someone you need to get information from. Because from personal experience implications can come up as I was going to walk in and talk to my interviewee as I knew him personally and is schedule I though. So, when I went in to talk to him it turns out he was at a wedding across the country.
The strengths and weaknesses of my research paper. Starting out I think the weaknesses of my research paper would have to start with the revisions and fixing the technical issues I did not give my best effort into my research paper and most the time period of which we were given to work of the paper I did not, procrastinating. Thought my procrastination I did not have the best writing resulting in a shorter and overall less quality