Class Reflection

The course overall to was stressful to me. I did not have a lot of writing skills when I first came into the class. Everything I was taught in high school was completely different than what I had to do in this class. Since I did not have lots of skills for writing, I had to learn a significant amount to make my writing more successful.

          What I have learned from this class was how to make a thesis statement the best it can be. It was more than just stating the points that were going to be throughout the paper. Also I learned different ways to reword essays so I am not repeating the same thing over and over again. What I have learned the most in the class was how to research scholarly sources. I never knew what they were until this class. I always thought scholarly sources were just any source that was online that could back a paper up. In school I never had to use anything like that. Whatever I needed to write in school I was able to just use internet sources. Doing this research really helped me a lot.

          What I learned about myself was that I had lots to learn about writing. I knew coming into the class I was not a good writer and that it was going to be difficult. In matter of fact, the class was very difficult for me because some things we needed to use in the essays just were not clicking in my head. I would always get stressed out about having to write these papers. What I learned about myself while doing this is that I need to focus at one thing at a time. I needed to take a deep breath and conquer the essay. I knew that if I needed help that the writing center was there to help me in any way. I knew if I focused on what needed to be done and do it the right way I would be a better writer. So what I learned is that I need to slow it down, take more time and get help when needed to become the writer I want to be.

          Nothing in the class made me surprised. I somewhat knew that the class was just going to be on writing papers. Everything that we did in class actually did not relate to me. The Glass Castle I had a family that cared and provided things for me unlike the Walls. The movie was not related to me either. The only thing I did not really like in the class was the first paper we had to write on whether class and education were related to one another. I really thought that was a hard paper to write.

          What I will probably do to keep practicing with writing is each time go to the writing center for help. Whether it is just to read over or to get ideas. I could see a big improvement since I started going there this semester. Otherwise, I really do not know how I would practice. Basically just when I have a writing assignment will be to go to the writing center and to learn different material to make it the best it can be.