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English 1302 Reflective Overview

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Throughout this semester, I have grown tremendously in English. In this reflective overview I will be providing information on what has become the outcome of this semester. The work in English 1302 challenged me the most by getting them in on a timely manner. For me, the most meaningful learning process was the literature review. The research portion of this paper changed the way I feel about English. At the time, I did not realize how difficult it was to find different articles, let alone them be scholarly articles and then must make sure they all correlate. Initially, I knew that finding articles and making sense of them would be challenging but I soon fell to realize that it took a lot more work than I was ready to give. Unlike any of

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