Personal Narrative: My First College Composition Course

Come a little closer, I want to let you in on a couple of secrets: my first thoughts and final thoughts of my first College Composition course. My first thought midway through the first quarter was all I need is to get an A, but how on Earth am I going to accomplish that if this crazy grading scale was in my way. Little did I know that it actually takes a good team to receive the grade that each of us want. My role as a student of College English 110 was attend class, participate in class discussions, help stimulate ideas for other classmates, complete all assignments, and much more. During certain occasions, I contribute to the class by stating my opinions, assist other students in his/her work, and revise peers’ drafts. I facilitate the development of my classmates’ writing by reading the essays that were written during this course. While reading one of my classmates work, I can see the improvements in his/her writing development by when I read the paper and briefly recalling his/her previous essays. I was a critical member of the writing community by adding ideas, reviewing peers papers and contributing my written work for others to analyze. Adding an essay to the web seemed like a duty as a writer. My first task as a writer is to develop the process of my essay. We were introduced to a six …show more content…
That is probably why I received a similar grade to my first essay. By the third assignment, I considered changing my writing process. The one thing that I did differently was that I made a list of the requirements of the paper. The information would go under that line. For example, I needed to have judgment, criteria, and evidence in my consumer review. I made those my headlines. I added the details under it. By using this format to begin my paper was helpful because I knew I had the necessary information. Altering this part of my process played an important part in my final grade of consumer review