Reflective Essay On Intensive College Composition

Looking and down and seeing that College Composition was a mandatory a little part of my brain shuts down. Writing has always been my worst subject, always a struggle. No matter how much I try each essay will either be really bad or sub par. After a semester of Intensive College Composition, I realized that I needed to have more confidence in my work. Also realizing that waiting to the last minute was not going to work, taking it step-by-step days before will have a better outcome. After my first couple of assignments I was scared to see how I was going to do in this class, but then I got my first essay back. Shocked by the grade even though it wasn’t that good, but it was the first time I got positive feedback from an essay. My professor and I sat down and discussed the things that I could fix, but again something good about it! Then the next day in class we were assigned to discuss “Core Values” but I had never heard of this in writing before. Learning five total values each one was demonstrated in class in relation to my writing process. Introducing the first core value, …show more content…
After being given a topic you write about what relates most to you, you have taken responsibility to complete an essay like this. Creating a thesis and all the points to justify the thesis. Everyone is offered to their opinion, but with that comes respect. During our superhero essay, I decided to write about the victims of sexual assault, a very sore subject for some people. This subject has to be taken and used carefully in the essay. But be careful not to plagiarize anything, properly formatting. Throughout this class when summarizing I tended to steal exact quotes not truly paraphrasing what the original text said. After learning my grades finally increased because I actually knew how to summarize rather than just copying the text. Format is important so that in the end you are not stealing other writer’s