LIBA Reflective Essay

Reflective Essay The class LIBA 102 taught me essential components of becoming a strong writer. This class helped me realize my strengths and weaknesses when writing essays, research papers, and other pieces. We had several different assignments that helped me figure out the areas that I thought I succeed in and the areas that I believed I needed to work on. I believe that I have work to do before I will be completely satisfied with my writing skills, but with time and practice I am fairly confident in my abilities to become an even stronger writer. This class helped me grow as a writer, but there were certain things that I did struggle with. At the beginning of this course our class was informed that we were going to watch a television …show more content…
I never have a problem finding articles, since there is a vast amount of articles on pretty much every topic. Summarizing them has never been my strength, but it has gotten easier to do with time. I usually read through every article twice and highlight things that I know I understand. Once I do this, it helps me get a better understanding of the article that I am about to summarize. The research paper was probably the most challenging thing for me throughout this whole class. The paper itself and the rules were not hard. The rules were straight forward and we had plenty of time to get it done. It was the annotated bibliography that I struggled with. In high school we used a website to cite everything for us. Since we used this website during high school, the way we did an annotated bibliography this year was new to me. It is how a normal annotated bibliography is done, but because we used the website in the past I was a little thrown off. I wish that in high school we had to do it the normal way and not used the website to do it for us. This was a major thing that I learned and I think that learning how to do an annotated bibliography properly will definitely help me become a more successful writer in the