I truly enjoyed taking the English 1302 class with you, thanks for making this class easy and not stressful. During my High School year, I hated to take English because my grammar is bad, however, this class has allowed me to stress less over my grammar and focus more on my arguments. In addition, every discussion and journal have helped me learned how to think critically when analyzing poems and stories. Thanks for being an attentive professor. Which essay was your strongest? Why? Which was your
Reflection In this semester, I succeeded in finishing several assignments and some in-class writing. During the writing process, I learned a lot about these different kinds of writing formats and realized my own weakness. As for the four essays that I wrote: summary and response paper, rhetorical analysis, argumentative essay and reflection essay, I’d like to introduce my past English learning experience first, then discuss each assignment individually and express my feelings and reflection. When
When I registered for English 111, I held the personal belief that the whole process of proper writing restrained and suppressed the cleverness and inventiveness of story-telling. I pondered the question, “Is it possible for me to write a proper essay that can satisfy my inner story-teller and fulfill all the requirements of a college level paper. Immediately, my unease was addressed with our class’s opening assignment a reflection essay that requested me to write about what I thought were the weaknesses
The Use of Computer in English Language Learning It was Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 12.30 PM, we gave the questionnaires about the use of computer in English language learning to five women and five men whose ages between 18 to 21 years old. The questionnaires were given to the respondents while they were in the student hall, Sanata Dharma University. It took a short time about 5 minutes for them to answer all the questions. They didn’t ask anything regarding to the questionnaires distribution
tongue teaching has the benefits to enhance effectiveness of acquisition of knowledge and create positive effects on student’s leaning, others are less optimistic and are concerned about the worsening of English proficiency and possible obstacle of post-secondary studies and employment. This essay examines some of the advantages and disadvantages of the mother tongue teaching. One argument in favour of mother tongue education is that teaching and learning could be more effective. In general, most
citing facts, and brainstorming ideas was very intense in this class. Reading various arguments debating the topic I want to write on, was very challenging and time consuming. In this reflection essay I want to show how researching process was vital on changing my writing style. Also, what I’ve learned in English 105 class after a great summer semester with lots of material to learn from. Researching was drastically important, making every paper I made heavily based on research. Research is in fact
REFLECTION ON TEAM WORK I am grateful that Ms. Anderton arranged us to create a team in Academic Writing class to work together and fill each other strengths and weaknesses. Referring to my personal SWOT analysis in writing skills, I realized that I had a lot of areas to be improved. My team consists of Alvin, Michelle, and me. On September 22nd, 2016, we gathered together at Alvin’s place, Echtenstein 138 to make a team plan for term 1. Seeing each other’s SWOT analysis, we decided to focus more
Awaking the English tyranny Imagine living in eighteenth century England. Imagine the English-Irish division. Imagine being an English citizen living in that era, all rich and bombastic. Life couldn’t be better for you; almost everything was glorious and you were leading a wealthy life. Then rip that image out of your mind! You are now a poor dehumanized undermined Irish. Life couldn’t be tougher, your country is being imprisoned by inferior forces.You can’t provide for yourself or your
they do want to fit in a new environment. This essay will examine in particular some difficulties which international people usually have to deal with when they start a new life in Britain and possible solutions for these problems supported by
Meta-Cognition Journal: English Reflection This journal demonstrates five topics through five paragraphs that reflect on my literary experience throughout my study of literature in ENG 3U. The five topics that I am going to talk about are my English study’s, how I approach work that I get back, how I should improve my routine style, things I have to work on and the next step I am going to take to improve in English. Firstly, throughout my studies of English, I truly feel that I have improved on