Reflection

English 102 has been a fun class to participate in and has giving me many useful things that will surly help in my future courses. Some of the skills learned will most defiantly come up again in essay writing in the suture such as knowing what the MLA format looks like. How to tell summary from analysis, creating a thesis and knowing how to make a literary analysis paper. These where skills that I had not fully developed before or had none at all. I am happy that I learned them in this class.

Some of the readings where different as well which gave me some things to consider when it comes to writing. The book Winter's Bone made me think about how writers incorporate life experiences into their own books and poetry for descriptive writing. I find that after reading good examples of these qualities I have found it useful to my own writing. Up in the Air was a more challenging book to concentrate on than I had anticipated. However the challenge was accepted and many more things came from it. This book taught me more about behavioral patterns between people, and how a writer was able to take the indescribably and describe it well into writing. This is something I admired, and I might even consider reading into his other books once the semester is over.

The majority of my challenges in this class were defiantly the papers. Considering I do not have much experience in writing them and my past experiences, they were not my strong suit. Keeping myself from distraction was another issue. I believe I was able to overcome these problems. After reviewing on how I wrote and improving it and limiting my free time I was able to start and get my worked turned in on time and to the best quality that I could muster. Because of that I believe my writing process has changed for the better. After looking at my old work to newer work I had noticed that at some steps in my writing I had taken more time to refine details that I would have normally ignored. In summary, I would elaborate where I needed too even if I felt it to be unnecessary. I had also began to gather information while I was reading the material or watching it. Which saved me time as I developed my thesis. I think that will be a handy skill.

I believe I have met most of the Learning Outcomes. Some of them I know I am not good at such as voice. Which is something that doesn't come to me considering I have little opinion on anything and thus give it little personality. But one day I will overcome this, and I hope that day will be within the last few weeks of out semester. If not then I promise to continue my studies in english and refine my ridged skill in paper writing.

Thank you for the semester.