Personal Narrative: The Place In The Hearts Lessons Learned

“It always seems impossible until it's done.” (Done Quotes). To start with a quote from Nelson Mandela about the impossible is how I began this class, I thought it to be impossible and how I would never reach the end of this class. As I joined in this class I figured my only goals were to finish with a passing grade and hopefully skim through the class enough to complete the course. I had heard stories from older students of the horrors this class brought through long essays and a tremendous amount of class work; nonetheless, I journeyed into the class and was quite astonished to find that the work was not difficult but inspiring and helpful. The essays, although hard, were not over topics that were not to unbearable to where it was almost …show more content…
Through all the things I have learned from the life lessons in the Place In The Hearts lessons, the way of metacognition or to think before you write in order to gather your thoughts for the betterment of your paper, to the way on how to properly cite your sources and edit an academic paper, the one that is most important to me is how to correctly cite our sources in an academic essay. This is for the single fact that you, the instructor, told us that in college this is what they will look at for a majority of the time. When first starting this class I had an idea of how to create a works cited as well as how to insert a website into a citation machine; however, my knowledge lacked on if it was being done properly. Throughout the semester it was clear I was far off from creating any citation that was par with MLA’s format. Now at the conclusion of this class I have not mastered, but honed my skills and am now able to cite a website, author, or graph properly and be at par with an MLA formatted works cited. Although with my luck still to learn, I have gathered much knowledge and am confident with my advancement into the full college experience in