Reflection Paper
At first, the thought of being in a college level english class made me extremely nervous. Although I really enjoy writing and being creative, I have never felt like I was a good writer. I definitely had room for improvement. Before taking this class, I have never had a teacher tell me how to properly write an essay. I felt like they expected us to know how to write an A+ paper straight out of the womb. From freshman to junior year in english class, I was thrown into writing. I remember writing an introduction, a body paragraph, and a conclusion with rarely any details and nothing else. Now I know that doing this is referred to as the ‘bare minimum’. To me, writing a paper that was 3 pages long was absolutely absurd. After …show more content…
For example: “Being Brians”, “On Dumpster Diving”, and “Us and Them”. They really Inspired me because I realised that a topic like searching through the trash, as told in my favorite one that we read, “On Dumpster Diving”, would usually cause me to fall asleep. Because honestly, who is interested in reading narratives about garbage? To my surprise, “On Dumpster Diving” was extremely interesting to me, I practically had to peel myself from the papers. I figured if that author could make a typically boring topic turn amazing, then so could I. When we were assigned mini paper 2/formal essay 2, I used this same strategy about making a boring task turn interesting in my Formal Essay 2. This essay was definitely harder than the previous essays because it is very difficult to convince people that taking care of a cat is fun. Finding facts and details to put in my essay was not easy at all, and It ended up looking like a research paper. My essay was too short and too boring to even keep my own attention- even though I enjoy taking care of my cats. This is why I decided to revise essay, because I knew that I could do better. Even to me, my essay seemed too short and boring, much like the 3 paragraph essays that I used to write. This is why I have chosen to revise that essay. With more time to spare, and more experience to use, I am confident that I can greatly improve Formal Essay
At first, the thought of being in a college level english class made me extremely nervous. Although I really enjoy writing and being creative, I have never felt like I was a good writer. I definitely had room for improvement. Before taking this class, I have never had a teacher tell me how to properly write an essay. I felt like they expected us to know how to write an A+ paper straight out of the womb. From freshman to junior year in english class, I was thrown into writing. I remember writing an introduction, a body paragraph, and a conclusion with rarely any details and nothing else. Now I know that doing this is referred to as the ‘bare minimum’. To me, writing a paper that was 3 pages long was absolutely absurd. After …show more content…
For example: “Being Brians”, “On Dumpster Diving”, and “Us and Them”. They really Inspired me because I realised that a topic like searching through the trash, as told in my favorite one that we read, “On Dumpster Diving”, would usually cause me to fall asleep. Because honestly, who is interested in reading narratives about garbage? To my surprise, “On Dumpster Diving” was extremely interesting to me, I practically had to peel myself from the papers. I figured if that author could make a typically boring topic turn amazing, then so could I. When we were assigned mini paper 2/formal essay 2, I used this same strategy about making a boring task turn interesting in my Formal Essay 2. This essay was definitely harder than the previous essays because it is very difficult to convince people that taking care of a cat is fun. Finding facts and details to put in my essay was not easy at all, and It ended up looking like a research paper. My essay was too short and too boring to even keep my own attention- even though I enjoy taking care of my cats. This is why I decided to revise essay, because I knew that I could do better. Even to me, my essay seemed too short and boring, much like the 3 paragraph essays that I used to write. This is why I have chosen to revise that essay. With more time to spare, and more experience to use, I am confident that I can greatly improve Formal Essay