During my time in English 1A I was able to see some of my strength and weaknesses in my writing and reading as well; I also learned how to use them to make me a stronger reader and writer. I learned new things that will help me in my English classes and also some of my other future classes. During our English 125 class we sped through the class since it was compacted into six weeks so this class went over lots of those things I was not able to understand before. With explanations, assignments, and some of the handouts we received throughout the semester helped me grow as a writer, reader and even as a thinker.
During one of our class were asked to read an article which was an example of an argumentative essay discussing the different reasons …show more content…
I found doing this was very helpful. I was able to look up articles and describe how I can use them to make my argument stronger. It was something so simple but just by having all the articles with a description on one paper made it so much easier to reference them and look at why I should use that article in my essay. This, along with completing a prospectus was very helpful to me while completing my essay. The prospectus talked about what the purpose of our paper was going to be and why it was an issue in the first place. These definitely helped me in the process of writing my essays and will help me in future essays. I also came to the conclusion that I enjoyed writing argumentative essays. I found that when I was working on this essay, it was fun. I scored the highest in this essay with a 44/50. I am hoping after this portfolio it can go up a point or two for an A. I did some minor corrections throughout my essay along with the MLA corrections before turning it in for the final time. Another thing I enjoyed was the topic and tentative thesis worksheet for our third essay. We wrote down the quotes that we were going to use in our essay and why we were going to use it. These little assignments will help me in future classes as
During one of our class were asked to read an article which was an example of an argumentative essay discussing the different reasons …show more content…
I found doing this was very helpful. I was able to look up articles and describe how I can use them to make my argument stronger. It was something so simple but just by having all the articles with a description on one paper made it so much easier to reference them and look at why I should use that article in my essay. This, along with completing a prospectus was very helpful to me while completing my essay. The prospectus talked about what the purpose of our paper was going to be and why it was an issue in the first place. These definitely helped me in the process of writing my essays and will help me in future essays. I also came to the conclusion that I enjoyed writing argumentative essays. I found that when I was working on this essay, it was fun. I scored the highest in this essay with a 44/50. I am hoping after this portfolio it can go up a point or two for an A. I did some minor corrections throughout my essay along with the MLA corrections before turning it in for the final time. Another thing I enjoyed was the topic and tentative thesis worksheet for our third essay. We wrote down the quotes that we were going to use in our essay and why we were going to use it. These little assignments will help me in future classes as