I am writing about my writing experience in my Writing 101 class. I am recently taking writing one on one class at University of Maryland University College. This is my evaluation of my Writing 101 class here at the University of Maryland University College. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on my first to last writing assignment by reflecting on my writing skills at the beginning of this course to now by looking at the quizzes, discussions, and papers written for the course Writing 101. Writing 101 here at University of Maryland University College was a very challenging course for me. When I first started taking the quizzes I was like how am going to pass this class. Three quizzes where very hard for me. I was like how am I going to
“Everything you sent me to school for, you 're stopping me of it,’I told my aunt…” The humiliation I had to go trough, going into that man’s kitchen… Now going up to that jail… Anything to humiliate me. All the things you wanted me to escape by going to school. Years ago, Professor Antoine told me that if I stayed here, they were going to break me down to the nigger I was born to be.
Writing About Writing, A College Reader. Ed. Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. 481-495.
Throughout the term there has been many writing assignments —big or small— that helped reflect my writing process or the process itself. In the beginning of the course I felt like I was an “ok” writer, but lacked some skills such as: organization, sentence variety, and vocabulary. Also, I did not like to write and had a feeling of dislike when forced to write. I felt like I improved on everything I wanted and was seen throughout the semester. I know how to organize my ideas, the worksheets given in class to work on sentence variety really helped, and vocabulary was built on some level.
Writing has always been an issue but yet interesting subject of mine. As hard as I try and write essays, and papers I just can’t get the hang of writing. But after taking this class, I did learn different writing technique and improved my writing proficiency, material body of formatting, and how to uncovering and properly use sources. Through class exams, essays, and a research paper, I was able to learn new writing skills. Although I have learned a variety of things, my writing still needs improvement.
So, to make a difference this time I wanted to expand from what I learned from last class. I do feel like I did better but there is still much for me to learn. Even though this is my second time taking this course I still do not believe I am comfortable with my writing skills. This reflects in my post as well because most are just simple and get rid down to the details instead of elaborating. However, compared to my last semester my writing has improve significantly and has shown in my reflection posts.
Looking back at the writing I have produced throughout this course, I am able to see the areas where I continue to grow and the places that have yet to reach its full potential. By analyzing my writing, this has helped me become aware of my strengths, but also notify me of my weaknesses that need improvement. I have come along way as a writer since enrolling in this course, but there still is room for plenty of improvement. Over this past course, I have found the correct things that have worked for me and the wrong ones that do not.
ENG-122 Reflective Essay My writing process has changed tremendously over the course of this class. I feel more accomplished, confident and I feel sometimes that my ideas and thoughts just come in to my mind out of nowhere and I start writing about anything now. I pay attention to my punctuation and grammar more as I have polished them more now, not only when I write but then others write as well. I am constantly looking for errors and I highly think this is helping me a lot in my career.
When we started this course I was intimidated that I would not be able to grasp all the topics and that I would not be able to get a good grade in this class. This did not affect me though as I gave my all in this class, I submitted all the assignments and made sure I understood the concepts learned in each assignment. This course required a lot of time and effort as it was a session B course and was completed over a period of 8 weeks. I also developed skills of persistence, flexibility and responsibility by completing my assignments on time each week. The objective of this course was to grow as a writer and through each assignment I feel like I have learned something new and grown as a writer.
Prior to the course, I often found myself writing just to complete assignments. I was not considering my audience, or writing in an enjoyable manner. However, this course has made my writing more reflective and meaningful. While the professor may be the only person who read my essay, I understand that I don’t just have to use my professor as an audience, I can use an audience that interests me. Through writing my argument essay on a subject I am passionate about, I was able to write a more reflective piece.
Writing a paper has been always a difficult thing for me to do so. I never interest to writing because I find that a lot requirement to fulfill as a well writing paper. They are choice make up idea of topic, and set up a theme. When actually on writing it, I need use correct words choice, and write a sudden type of paper. Also, writing an English paper, there have different tense, such as past tense, present tense and future tense, which are verbs to state when the actions or events.
Students were given a prompt, writing process, and three to four writing block sessions to complete their narrative. These narratives were then graded using a rubric which scores on ideas, content, organization, style, and language skills. This data was then synthesized and used to identify student’s writing strengths and areas students could work on for improvement. Based on the analysis of the narratives, students showed strengths in staying on topic, vocabulary, capitalization, and in subject and verb agreement. The data also showed students could benefit from instruction in paragraph formatting, using transitions, spelling, and writing
In the past, many problems prevented me from writing excellent papers. Throughout my years of writing in school, the papers I have written for this class have challenged me the most. In the beginning of the semester, I did not fully understand how much time and effort I needed to put forth to write a college essay. My past English classes did not prepare me for writing college-level essays, nor teach me the proper way in which to write the papers. The essays I have written this semester have improved immensely thanks to the feedback from both Mrs. Menetre and Mrs. Fleming.
Each essay I wrote took me several time to write, several drafts which show that I have improve every time I do the drafts to write a perfect masterpiece. I learned a lot of skills and techniques this quarter, which has helped me to improve and progress my writing skills for the future. I will remember the skills, techniques, and tips that professor gave us in this English class for my higher education. For example, all the time that I went to visit professor Sapozhnikov office hours to receive help on my out-of -class essays has helped me to improve, grow, and progress in my writing skills as a writer. Some of the significant changes I have made as I was progressing and growing were to develop a strong thesis to help support my claims as I write my essays, such as facts, observations, illustration, and examples.
In my four years of high school I have taken advanced, honors, and two years of advanced placement English courses. High school has so far prepared me to write fluently and effectively, it has also primarily prepared me for the kind of writing that was required of me in this course. College-level writing is important to me because it has allowed me the chance to further my writing skills and knowledge of different genres of essays. Just this course alone has already taken my writing ability way beyond what I have accomplished at a high school level. College-level writing courses are important because they will teach me how to better convey thoughts, ideas, and facts in simple and clear language.
The method of research, 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.