English 1320 Course Reflection

Over the course of this semester in my English 1320 class I have seen a drastic change throughout my writing style. Although I still have difficulties with a few writing tasks, I believe that I have improved significantly throughout this course. I have found that with my professor’s guidance along with my own personal editing that my grades have increased. Although it is difficult to not get caught up in simply striving for a letter grade or attaining a 4.0 grade point average, I would like to believe that my main goal was different. Of course I would love to achieve those goals as well, but overall my primary goal throughout this class was to become more relaxed and comfortable in my writings, to use new strategies and proper kinds of conventions, and to truly find a way to express my passion on these papers. These tasks are far from being completed but I can see improvement with every assignment and …show more content…
My conference paper is where I received the highest grade, while in my other essays I was always just a smidge shy of an A. personally I believe that the reason for this was because I lacked control, structure, and purpose in my papers. My professor would tell me that I was “missing something” which continued to aggravate me as well as motivate me to try harder. In the conference paper I attempted to push myself by using all of the techniques I had learned throughout the semester. The annotated bibliography taught me how to correctly summarize an excerpt with proper citations. The synthesis essay successfully enlightened me on the art of combination, which is also what the executive summary asks me to do. The genre essay allowed me to focus on a certain topic and expand on it with more detail. Which brings us back to the conference paper where I was able to tie all of it