Enn 101 Reflection

My first semester at Washburn has been better than I thought it would be. During this semester I have learned multiple things in your class EN 101. I have learned many different forms of citing, properly finding and using credible sources, different techniques of writing, proofreading your peer’s papers and many interesting things about pop culture. Through the class exercises that we did in class and writing these different papers over the semester I have been able to learn these skills. When writing a paper it is like a puzzle. You have many small pieces that you need to put together and make a big picture like your intended audience, purpose of the essay, organization, proper use of grammar, citing the sources and many other things. This class helped me put those pieces together to make a paper that would show my writing styles and my thoughts. Also it helped me grow as a writer and reader. Although I learned all this abilities to be a better writer but my writing still needs improvement in abilities like using proper grammar, coming up with a thesis and organizing my thoughts so the reader can follow through the paper easily. …show more content…
In high school we usually wrote compare and contrast or an essay with one of the books that we read during the class but we never tried different styles of writing. I was able to achieve that goal through this class because we learned many different types of writing styles like persuasive essay, research paper, vignettes, small responses towards an article, letter to the editor and reflection essay. All of this were very interesting styles of writing your thought and opinions towards something. Not only the writing styles, we also learned couple different styles for citing our sources. One of them was using MLA format and the other one was bibliography which we used while we were citing our sources for research paper over the