Dear First Year Composition Assessment Committee,
At the beginning of English 1010, I thought my writing skills were not up to par with the other students and that this would be a hard class. As the semester progressed I noticed that I improved on both my writing and grammatical skills. This was my first college writing course that gave me more freedom with writing than I had in high school. I have learned a great deal this semester and plan on using what I learned to help me get through my next intensive writing course.
The chapters we read in our book The Call to Write has helped me understand the do’s and don’ts of writing particular essays. The book contained example articles and essays of the topics the class were to write on and they helped me understand how the essay was to be written. The readings were a great source of information for me to refer back to when writing the final drafts of my essays.
Being able to read my classmates papers was very helpful for me and my classmates too. I was intrigued by the different topics my classmates were writing about and what their opinions were. I have always been a great peer reviewer of other peoples work unlike my own. The advices I was giving my classmates would have also benefited me when writing my own paper. The peer reviews I got for my paper were very helpful and I tried my best to take all of their advice and apply it to my paper. Any information that I got from my classmates and instructor were very helpful in understanding my paper or correcting them.
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Writing The writing process can be viewed in a variety of different ways, depending upon what angle each and every reader chooses to take. Writing can be one of the most beautiful things that one has ever seen, or writing can hurt to look at. Some everyday things that can be used to describe writing are washing clothes, playing cards, and playing hide and seek. Writing is a lot like washing ...
The essay that was the easiest to write to me was the review. This essay was the easiest because I got to compare and contrast two websites that pertained to my major from two different universities. I enjoyed writing about the positive and negative aspects of the websites and how they could make their website better. This paper allowed my audience to understand which website would be the best to learn about the biology major and what it the university website. The most difficult essay I had to write was the rhetorical analysis paper. I had to actually interrupt the author’s purpose for writing his document. This essay was a really frustrating one to write but when I finished I was a much better writer. This essay helped me see another view at writing for a professional author’s way of writing and eventually use it in my own paper.
The main goal of the semester to me was how to learn how to cite your work. This was very difficult for me because I have never cited my papers in high school like I had to do this semester. I think I have really learned how to do this very well, especially citing the works I put into the paper.
During the semester I noticed that I still have areas to improve in. Some of these areas would be being to repetitive, using correct punctuation, and transitions between my paragraphs. This class has really helped me to stop being so repetitive but I still could use some improvement. My punctuation has improved greatly over the semester. I am able to put the correct colons and commas in the right place now. I was also able to improve on transitioning
After taking this course, I feel that I have improved the quality of my writing. I have never enjoyed writing an essay as much as I have in this course. I now understand how important it is to put effort into my writing and not put anything together. Even though I still have areas to improve in, my writing has become much stronger and I look forward to using my new skills in later writing courses and future projects.
