Trying something new makes you learn a lot about yourself because it is a chance for you to take a risk on a task you do not know. Most are afraid of failure, not being good enough, yet there are some people who like the challenge, people like me. I have an attachment to learning ideas that I do not already know, I admire the concept of being smarter than I was yesterday. With this English college class, I challenged myself because I did not if I was prepared for this type of work or not. I grew from the first day to the last because I allowed myself the chance to make mistakes and the steps to try to improve. Overall, I learned how to become a better writer and how to get a point across in a respectful, educated matter with little to no errors.
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I would also run it in websites like grammarly.com and paperrater.com so I could get their suggestions as well because sometimes I skim past some simple grammar errors like misspelling a word or forgetting to put a comma after a transition word. I did this every time I finished an essay to make sure that I got the best grade I possibly could. This was very effective because it made me get a glance at things that I did not catch and to see my essay from another point of view with the English …show more content…
We never used outside sources, so this was the first exposure that I ever had so it was challenging at first trying to understand what those were. Those are a big part of writing because as a writer you want to be taken seriously, one can’t do that if they use sources like Wikipedia and The Huffington Post. I really came to terms with those on the research paper because that was the biggest grade and I wanted to make sure that everything was correct. I used the APA format on every paper that we had to write because I was not thinking of becoming an English major. At first, it was confusing because I had never done that format before but now I actually prefer it. When I wrote my romance essay, that was the first official time I was using it and my abstract was too long and my sources were incorrect, but after you gave me those comments I made sure to correct them the next time we had an essay
I would also run it in websites like grammarly.com and paperrater.com so I could get their suggestions as well because sometimes I skim past some simple grammar errors like misspelling a word or forgetting to put a comma after a transition word. I did this every time I finished an essay to make sure that I got the best grade I possibly could. This was very effective because it made me get a glance at things that I did not catch and to see my essay from another point of view with the English …show more content…
We never used outside sources, so this was the first exposure that I ever had so it was challenging at first trying to understand what those were. Those are a big part of writing because as a writer you want to be taken seriously, one can’t do that if they use sources like Wikipedia and The Huffington Post. I really came to terms with those on the research paper because that was the biggest grade and I wanted to make sure that everything was correct. I used the APA format on every paper that we had to write because I was not thinking of becoming an English major. At first, it was confusing because I had never done that format before but now I actually prefer it. When I wrote my romance essay, that was the first official time I was using it and my abstract was too long and my sources were incorrect, but after you gave me those comments I made sure to correct them the next time we had an essay