Reflective Essay: Dual Credit English Middle Class

Over the course of this year, dual credit english has been a fun and working class. Starting from correct grammar, to writing essays, then to writing well-developed essays. The topics were great to work with and creating ideas and typing the one-thousand plus words were the easy part to finish. In this high school English class, It started off boring the first two weeks of the semester where a lot of grammar based worksheets came to play so we could type a-near-perfect essay. Commas, uppercases, and lowercases to be exact were the main points of our essays for improvement. Through this course, I could write about anything my mind desired, particularly sports related, and at first I was not bothered by the format, classical sentence structure. …show more content…
In the past, I would have turned in my paper attempting my best work, hoping I accomplished what the prompt asked for. This year however, our class requires students to turn in several drafts of our essay as practice to our final draft. For the first time in a long time, I had not only one pair of eyes looking over my paper, but some of my classmates as well, from examining, and checking over it. This brought little grammar issues in my writing that I had apparently skipped over the first time. No matter if you are an author or not, it always requires more than a single pair of eyes to check over writing to make sure it is correct. The writing process for this paper allowed me to come closer to my full potential, but also, the topic was perfect. The students around me liked this process as well, becoming more intelligent each day fulfilling the requirements for the …show more content…
That is what I hoped to gain from participating in class each day, and classmates around me sharing the knowledge sure helped me grow as a student. I hope to learn more from encouragement and intelligence from my family and friends. I thought I could only write about the sports subject, but with Pierce in class we learned many different political and societal views. I may still commit the occasional misspelling or grammatical errors, but I am a lot more confident as an all-around writer. The standard grew and grew out of control, but I was ready to face the challenge. Each topic became more advanced throughout the year to adapt us to the college level. So as a student I was ready to outburst my fullest potential on each sentence of every paragraph. Now, without expectation, I favorably fast forward ahead, so that I may apply whatever else writing has in store for