English Reflective Essay

This semester in English 1100, College Composition 1, I have learned a lot. At the beginning of this semester, I had set my mind that I was certainly going to achieve and learn a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing the English essay assignments especially in terms of expanding, grammar, and picking good enough topics. I have not had an English class since junior year of high school and that was about 3 and a half years ago. During the first week of the semester I sat down, prepared my thoughts and understood that throughout the semester I had to achieve all that I had planned for this semester. I had to improve my skills as a writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all of this semester’s work we have done to portray how my

The narrative was kind of an hard assignment for me. In all my past experience with writing, I have never really been good at writing narrative essays. This assignment was difficult at first mainly because I was not really sure what to write or even how to begin writing a narrative. What made it easier for me to write the narrative was going through the writing process step by step. I sat down for a bit and just stared at the wall and then eventually came up with an idea focusing on a specific purpose and a specific group of people to write to. Once I determined what I would write about, I began the brainstorming process, followed by a rough draft, and then a solid final draft. At the beginning of my paper it was not too bad. My real issue started when I began trying to turn the short letter I wrote to my younger brother into a full essay. It was very difficult for me to elaborate without adding to much unnecessary things to the essay. After a considerable amount of time attempting to tweak and expand on that first essay, I finally understood and began to add more description and details, which helped me complete the