When I started this semester and got into this class for the first time, I was scared that I wouldn’t get a decent grade because my writing skills were not where they should have been at the time. Although my struggles with learning English, my professor took a different approach that no other English teacher/professor has done before and it worked. She explained things in ways I understood as my knowledge started to grow. I have taken a lot of time to get to the point I am at now, but one things for certain I am ready to move to English 1105 and face the challenges that await. The first assignment made me realize and understand what I needed to personally work on. Talking about my own struggles in English and how it was holding me back.
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I can now site anything from a website to a magazine without a computer. I can detect parts of a sentence and add or remove commas. I know how to properly quote in an essay, how to format the two different kinds of quotations inside the essay, and many more. My skills have increased, the papers I write not only for this course, but for others I take as well. I do believe I am ready to move onto English 1105 to increase my understand of the foundation I have firmly …show more content…
She just taught in a way that I understood. She would give us a practice worksheet and groups, then we would each go to the board and write it when we sat down we talked about what the answer was and why. Also, as we would write essays there would be 3 or 4 times we revised our essays to insure good quality papers. Peer review really helped me understand what teachers might look for in the essay and it’s a chance to revise more essays than just my own to improve the skills. Another major skill I noticed, is to use the library’s website to find scholarly journals which had better and more accurate information and was very trust-worthy for college essays. This skill was important and made a huge impact in my papers, throughout the semester. My first essay was a great example of my old writing and how much it has improved over the course of the semester. The word choice was poor, the grammar wasn’t edited, the paragraphs were in the wrong order. I was truly confused on the requirements that English 1101 brought to the table. Although it did teach me how to create my own interview questions and how to conduct a proper interview, it was a requirement for the paper. Which is what kick started the train to success in writing
I can now site anything from a website to a magazine without a computer. I can detect parts of a sentence and add or remove commas. I know how to properly quote in an essay, how to format the two different kinds of quotations inside the essay, and many more. My skills have increased, the papers I write not only for this course, but for others I take as well. I do believe I am ready to move onto English 1105 to increase my understand of the foundation I have firmly …show more content…
She just taught in a way that I understood. She would give us a practice worksheet and groups, then we would each go to the board and write it when we sat down we talked about what the answer was and why. Also, as we would write essays there would be 3 or 4 times we revised our essays to insure good quality papers. Peer review really helped me understand what teachers might look for in the essay and it’s a chance to revise more essays than just my own to improve the skills. Another major skill I noticed, is to use the library’s website to find scholarly journals which had better and more accurate information and was very trust-worthy for college essays. This skill was important and made a huge impact in my papers, throughout the semester. My first essay was a great example of my old writing and how much it has improved over the course of the semester. The word choice was poor, the grammar wasn’t edited, the paragraphs were in the wrong order. I was truly confused on the requirements that English 1101 brought to the table. Although it did teach me how to create my own interview questions and how to conduct a proper interview, it was a requirement for the paper. Which is what kick started the train to success in writing