Composition

that you ever thought imaginable. Though I have only been at this college for less than a year I have gained a vast amount of knowledge. Both in education and real life lessons that I will carry with me for eternity. In particular my English Composition class as well as my Intro to College Writing I learned an abounding amount of things that have shaped how I write and shaped the way I think about things. In my English classes I grew as a student and writer through the three units we did,…

When it comes to Composition 1, I learned a lot. In the beginning I wanted to learn how to become a better and creative writer. I also wanted to learn how to come up with topics and write about them easier. One last very important thing that I wanted to learn was how to prepare myself for college next year. After finishing Composition 1, I can say that I did accomplish all of those goals. I accomplished my goals because I worked really hard and focused on every single paper. In the beginning,…

When I started English Composition 1 class, I felt that I needed to improve my writing skills. Most of what I had learned in high school was different than that of my college English course. During this semester, our class worked on several different types of essays which included basic argument essay, rhetorical analysis, synthesis essay, and finally a reflective essay. After almost completing the course, I feel like I have grown to become a more prepared writer because of all the useful…

I grew greatly in my writing over the course of this year. Previously, I wrote based on instinct and in the style to which I adjusted; since starting AP Language & Composition, I’ve developed a certain writing foundation and learned to write with a much more defined purpose. Before this course, I often tried to cover given topics to the best of my ability, but I struggled as I lacked enough of a background in the technical skill necessary for writing to successfully cover all of the bases. I did…

If you were to ask me at the beginning of the semester what I expected from English Composition, I would not have answered with much. Previous English classes have all been repetitive, with the exception of what books are read each year. However, as the semester progressed, I began to realize how much this class had to offer. Throughout this semester, I learned many valuable skills such as drafting, crafting introductions, and critical analysis. What seemed to be a simple concept was never truly…

enormously hard to complete all my coursework and my other day-to-day responsibilities. Currently, I am only taking the English Composition course. I really appreciate English Composition because I can learn new techniques for writing. The mandatory readings for my English Composition course involves my full attention, I do find all the writing assignments for my English Composition course very exciting and I think that it would be relevant for my future career, but it’s very draining with the…

Before going into English composition class, I believed that writing an essay was stressful and difficult, but I realized that an essay is a process that is done by many steps. The first thing I learned throughout this course was that it 's always better to start developing your essay with enough time. With the more time on you hands, meaning you don 't have to write your essay all at once. Alongside to what Mrs. Hernandez has mentioned before that we can write our essay or start it off and…

Self Reflection Coming into college with no experience of any college classes, I was very clueless to how anything was going to work and what to expect. When I thought about taking composition one, all I thought was that it was going to be all writing papers. I was very wrong and this was far from true. Walking into this class for the first time, not one part of me expected to learn how to write papers through watching movies or through the in class activities we did. I expected to be given a…

I first discovered my vocation as a teacher by serving as a TA in the Christ College Freshman Program, where I developed valuable pedagogical skills I carry with me to this day. Although I was already considering a career in teaching, working with a cohort of likeminded instructors every Thursday night to prepare to share our knowledge with a small group of freshmen that Monday proved to me to be the ideal classroom scenario. After graduating from Christ College, my teaching career at the…

I want to use these skills to advance to the first Composition class, use what I learn for my major, and use what I learn for my future career. I feel like this class is preparing me very successfully for Composition one. When I was still in high-school, I used to think that English was one of my best subjects but there was many more things that I needed to learn. I enjoyed going to…