Final Reflective Essay: Advanced Reading And Writing Class

Final Reflective Essay Three months ago, I came to Advanced Reading and Writing Class already realizing that I wanted to improve the ability to express my ideas. As this semester is nearing completion, personally I have grown and learned more than that I thought possible, as both a reader and a writer. With respect to Advanced Reading and Writing, taking this course, as far as I am concerned, is the most challenging task during this semester since it lasts for three hours, and to be honest, it is difficult to pay a hundred-percent attention all the time. Therefore, our professor tried different ways to arouse students’ enthusiasm. To be more specific, we usually played vocabulary games in class, tried to learn new words entirely by sentence-making exercise in groups, as well as took vocabulary quizzes, which I used to feel lack the confidence to perform …show more content…
Without reading deeply and carefully, one cannot give a conceivable reflective work. The process of finding peer-reviewed journals significantly opened my mind as well as enriches my research topic, even though some of obscure jargons sometimes drove me impatient. Therefore, my reading skills are expected to improve in the course of writing since I have to challenge myself to constantly read those collected articles, digging into them as deeply as possible. By the combination of packing related details and formulating my own opinions I could give birth to my final essay, a more tenable one than it was before, and the comments given by professor also inspired me.
However, there are still a couple of things that I need to improve, such as writing more efficiently and academically, and that is what I do hope to learn in coming days. The end of this course doesn’t mean putting aside the reading and writing. Two weeks ago, I borrowed The Scarlet Letter from the Snell Library, and I believe reading famous classics will unintentionally take my writing to a new