How To Write A Reflective Essay About My First Day Of Class

Upon entering WRC the first day of classes, I had the utmost confidence. I believed my writing was near perfection, due to my pricy and challenging high school education. I still believe that I learned a lot from high school, but this class required a different type of writing that I had yet to experienced. WRC 1013 demanded academically researched papers, which I had done before, but in the past it had been strictly research. In these papers I had to convince my audience of something and why it is important which was incredibly frustrating and hard for me to do. I’ve not only learned how to write this type of paper, but I have also improved my research, outlining, drafting, and revising skills. Although I need some work in my critical thinking and some basic grammar issues when writing these papers, overall, I believe have improved as a writer. I believe I have improved in some parts of critical thinking more than others. I’ve gotten much better at selecting, analyzing, and synthesizing sources. I would not say that was a strength of mine before taking this class, but now I feel much more confident in my ability to find quality sources that are not only …show more content…
I have found that as I write I struggle to stay on topic, because I start thinking about the next think I’m going to write about even before I finish my current idea, which leads to undeveloped ideas. For example, in the language assignment, I begin talking about how “some bilingual students in a study reported that they felt isolated and discriminated against by fellow classmates who were perhaps native to the area they were in” (Acceptance is around the Corner 2). Following that sentence I skipped to another topic and did not fully explain why this was important. Since that first assignment, I believe I now am better at developing ideas and fully explaining the importance of what I’m saying and how it relates to my