Upon starting my online ENGL 1301 class for the spring 2017 semester, I set a certain amount of goals that I had planned to carry out. Although this was a repeat class for me, not due to lack of applying myself but for personal reasons. I planned to strive in every way possible not just to complete the course, but to learn how to write effectively. To write at a college level was my primary focus. With a fear of writing college essays, my first agenda was to overcome my fear. What seem complicated at first and with the help of my peers and the staff at the Tarrant County College writing lab, it became easier with time. So the one thing that I feared the most is now a learning lesson and a motivation thrive. On my first day of class, my first
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I knew that my writing skills needed much improvement because I was told by many professors and my peers that I write like I talk. Hearing those very truthful words was discouraging because that was an area identified in my life where improvement was needed. Bringing the fear of writing to life the moment I had to write my first essay in Professor Matthew online class. My first writing assignment was to analyze a song lyric or a commercial, which I picked the song because I love all things’ music. Hoping that the assignment would have been easy because of the song I choose. It was more to just picking a song to analyze, but it was about formatting my work and to focus on a specific audience. Writing my essay one paper, I was able to “write in a style appropriate to an audience and purpose” (Matthews 1) as quoted in the syllabus. I learned how to connect to a certain audience in my writing and stay on topic by writing with knowledge of my research and selling what I …show more content…
The fear of writing was no longer an object in my life, but yet a growing process. What was shocking to me was the grade I received on my essay two paper, where I did not receive any help on but was confident enough about my writing. In that essay I had to evaluate a film of my choice and quote a review from another website. Essay two was challenging because I had to learn how to properly cite and disagree with another person’s opinion. What helped me to cite my work with writing an essay was a sentence I read out the textbook saying “works can be cited in more than one way depending on your research purposes or the traits of the source” (Bullock, Goggin, Weinberg, TCCD-5). I learned how to argue my point in my cited work, Guitroz (2017) quoted “as one critic mentions that this movie is “A powerful, deeply moving film that drives an arrow straight through your heart”. Assuming that it was heartbreaking toward the end results of the movie. I disagree with that opinion because I didn’t find it to be an arrow straight through my heart”. Along with research, citing was something I learned how to do in EGNL 1301. Composition 1 had its ups and downs as an enrolled online student, but I was focused, sought plenty of help, and conquered at the
I knew that my writing skills needed much improvement because I was told by many professors and my peers that I write like I talk. Hearing those very truthful words was discouraging because that was an area identified in my life where improvement was needed. Bringing the fear of writing to life the moment I had to write my first essay in Professor Matthew online class. My first writing assignment was to analyze a song lyric or a commercial, which I picked the song because I love all things’ music. Hoping that the assignment would have been easy because of the song I choose. It was more to just picking a song to analyze, but it was about formatting my work and to focus on a specific audience. Writing my essay one paper, I was able to “write in a style appropriate to an audience and purpose” (Matthews 1) as quoted in the syllabus. I learned how to connect to a certain audience in my writing and stay on topic by writing with knowledge of my research and selling what I …show more content…
The fear of writing was no longer an object in my life, but yet a growing process. What was shocking to me was the grade I received on my essay two paper, where I did not receive any help on but was confident enough about my writing. In that essay I had to evaluate a film of my choice and quote a review from another website. Essay two was challenging because I had to learn how to properly cite and disagree with another person’s opinion. What helped me to cite my work with writing an essay was a sentence I read out the textbook saying “works can be cited in more than one way depending on your research purposes or the traits of the source” (Bullock, Goggin, Weinberg, TCCD-5). I learned how to argue my point in my cited work, Guitroz (2017) quoted “as one critic mentions that this movie is “A powerful, deeply moving film that drives an arrow straight through your heart”. Assuming that it was heartbreaking toward the end results of the movie. I disagree with that opinion because I didn’t find it to be an arrow straight through my heart”. Along with research, citing was something I learned how to do in EGNL 1301. Composition 1 had its ups and downs as an enrolled online student, but I was focused, sought plenty of help, and conquered at the