Reflective essay
Writers Composition One has been a great experience for me. In High School I have been never the best at writing, therefore I wrote poor essays, but being in this writing class with Mrs. Martin has helped me greatly improve my writing. I have learned that writing a perfect essay requires three major things to be well written. These three major keys are personal responsibility, communication skills and critical thinking skills. If these are executed perfectly or with little error, then a person will write a great essay.
I encountered several problems with the personal responsibility aspect of writing. the central reason was because I barely wrote essays in high school so coming to college I was very unfamiliar with MLA format. I never learned about …show more content…
As a result, Mrs. Martin never went over it, so I had to learn off the internet and I had a few MLA mistakes in my first essay. In my second essay I experienced major MLA format problems, such as: my name was not in times new roman, I did not correctly type my page numbers in the right upper corner, and I ran into many spacing issues in my paper. In this reflective essay I will correct all the MLA format mistakes I encountered in the past. Furthermore, under Personal responsibility I faced a significant problem with proof reading. I would have a lot of grammatical errors that could have easily been corrected if I had learned how to proofread correctly and effectively. Granted In my last essay, “The Power of Advertisements” I permitted a fellow student proofread that essay and make corrections or comments, but I failed to go back and delete or correct those comments. Thus here are some of my mistakes, “If an Alcohol Company uses the right appeals in an advertisement for
Writers Composition One has been a great experience for me. In High School I have been never the best at writing, therefore I wrote poor essays, but being in this writing class with Mrs. Martin has helped me greatly improve my writing. I have learned that writing a perfect essay requires three major things to be well written. These three major keys are personal responsibility, communication skills and critical thinking skills. If these are executed perfectly or with little error, then a person will write a great essay.
I encountered several problems with the personal responsibility aspect of writing. the central reason was because I barely wrote essays in high school so coming to college I was very unfamiliar with MLA format. I never learned about …show more content…
As a result, Mrs. Martin never went over it, so I had to learn off the internet and I had a few MLA mistakes in my first essay. In my second essay I experienced major MLA format problems, such as: my name was not in times new roman, I did not correctly type my page numbers in the right upper corner, and I ran into many spacing issues in my paper. In this reflective essay I will correct all the MLA format mistakes I encountered in the past. Furthermore, under Personal responsibility I faced a significant problem with proof reading. I would have a lot of grammatical errors that could have easily been corrected if I had learned how to proofread correctly and effectively. Granted In my last essay, “The Power of Advertisements” I permitted a fellow student proofread that essay and make corrections or comments, but I failed to go back and delete or correct those comments. Thus here are some of my mistakes, “If an Alcohol Company uses the right appeals in an advertisement for