English 101 Class Experience Report

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ENGL 101, FALL 2015

DR. ANASTASIA

Essay 3: class Experience

My first semester of college in my English 101 class was certainly an experience. And I use the word "experience” because I have learned a lot about myself, my writing, and the language. Due to the fact that i just came from high school, my expectations from this class were very high. I was expecting my professor to be arch on correcting papers and giving feedbacks. I was expecting my class to have a lot of native speakers. however, it wasn’t the case, my was very nice, and gave us good feedbacks in other to improve our writing style and patterns. I was put in a class with students that had problems with the language. So it was very easy to help each other out with problems that we were facing.

At the beginning of this course ,my writing skills weren’t good at all . I didn’t good grades on assignments. i definitely needed help with organizing my thoughts and putting them down on the paper in order, i used of run-on sentences, didn’t know how to
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Essay 2 consisted of writing a critical interpretive essay with a strong thesis statement about conversations between "A Students ' Right to Their Own Language," "What Should Colleges Teach," and "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Unlike the first essay, i have planned out what i was going to write. Before I began to write, i emptied my head. which means, I wrote down all my thoughts that I had on the topic I was writing about. I thought it will be cool trying something different for this essay. I wasn’t about this exercise would help me out in my writing so much. i now see why it is better that way. it’s because it helps saving time. you write everything down. you analyze, organize and then fix it later on.This method has helped me with my second. i felt like the essay was easy due to the fact that i’ve used that

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