A Writers Reflection Essay My English 101 Experience Short Story

1. A Writer's Reflection Essay
English is a hard language to learn, for there are numerous elements of effective usage and writing.
Many people, including me, struggle in writing because of a lack of knowledge. Since middle
school, English was not a strong suit of mine. I struggled with the simplest of tasks often taking a
considerably longer time to complete a task than the other students. Unmotivated teachers and a lack
of interest resulted in remedial writing skills. To put it simply, I had little confidence in my writing
and I dreaded taking the class because of the writing involved. In spite of my fears, I took the course
and I was able to perfect and challenge my mediocre writing skills.
With the professors' assistance, I was able to identify the meager...show more content...
An aspect that I often struggle with is proper punctuation. Truthfully, I do not know how to correctly
use punctuation. When writing, I place punctuation by mimicking authors' formats or by placing
them where it feels right. This is present in all of my writing, but I am attempting to improve.
Punctuation also plays a part in another weakness of mine, one that is most likely present within this
essay. Since middle school, it was engrained in my mind that a good essay is a long essay, so I
have a tendency for wordiness. To elongate an essay, I tend to add needless words and sentences.
For example, in the rough draft of the Whole Process Essay, I added several unrelated occurrences
to elongate the paragraphs. Although my essays were long and wordy, the professor commented
on vagueness and unclearness within the whole process and practice essay. Sometimes, I disregard
the fact that the reader might not know what it is I am writing about or the sentence makes perfect
sense to me. The latter is the most common, I quickly read the sentence and it appears fine to me.
Within the Whole Process Essay, another weakness was brought to my attention. I lack structure, a
key element in effective writing. Within the same essay and a few others, I simply added what felt
right, sometimes the result would be acceptable but in other instances, it was a long, jumbled mess.
Once these weaknesses were revealed, I worked on improving my current works. There were several
elements I had
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2. My English 101 Experience
As I look back on my English 101 experience, I have come to the conclusion that I have learned
many new things that have improved my abilities as a writer. I have learned some new techniques
that have improved my ways of approaching an essay. I learned all about the rhetorical appeals and
how to apply them in my writing and how to look for them in a essay written by a author. I have also
learned how to argue both sides of a argument, and how to look for reliable sources and to properly
quote and site the author of the essay. I feel as if I have become a better writer and my improved
writing skills are shown within each essay. When I first signed up for English 101 at soar, I thought
it was more of a reading and comprehension class...show more content...
I now see myself as a writer who has learned new techniques to help improve my writing including
style, word choice and the revision process. Even though I see myself as a improved writer, I still
believe I have plenty of room for improvement. When I first started English 101, I saw myself as
having a few good strengths and a lot of weaknesses as a writer. Some of my strengths included
being able to write a good introduction minus the thesis part. I also saw myself as knowing how
to write a good conclusion that summarized what I talked about in my essay and being able to
understand a article or essay by knowing what the author was talking about. Some of the
improvements I saw in my writing thorough out the semester is learning how to write an essay
where I can communicate with the audience with my own personal voice. I also feel I improved
on knowing how to properly include quotes and how to find good creditable sources to include in
my essay and on how to include both sides of a argument in my paper. Another improvement I
found in my papers is learning how to revise them and approach each essay. However, there are
some items of writing that I believe I improved on but still needs some work. For example, even
though I have learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to determine them in a essay, I still
feel as if I do not know how to properly included them in my essay. I also see myself as improving
on knowing how to write a thesis but still need work on
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3. Short Story
English coursework
The End of the Road
It all started to go downhill when my boyfriend started speaking to another girl behind my back,
sending text messages and meeting up with her for a 'chat' as he used to say. I never believed
anything he said. Neither did my friends or family. Why should we have? Before we got together
he was known as a player and someone who continuously flirted with girls even if he had a
girlfriend, but after we got together he toned it down and I thought he had changed. I'm fed up with
the way he is treating me, I know I deserve better. How did I know that the day I decided to confront
him was the day I would never see him again?
I decided to go to Daniel's the morning after I had found out about the text...show more content...
And that's when she told me. ''It's Daniel'' she said. ''He's been in an accident'' I fell to the floor, I
hadn't spoken to him, I've been ignoring him, what have I done?!
''Is he hurt? What kind of accident?'' I asked her. She looked up at me through the tears in her eyes
and I knew just from the look she gave me that it was more than a broken bone.
He was dead.
After Daniel's death I didn't leave my room for about a week, I didn't want to face the world, I
didn't want to talk to anyone, I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts. But all I could think about
was 'what if?' What if I hadn't ignored him? What if we weren't arguing, would he have been at mine
that night?
I went on my laptop about a week after, I didn't look at my phone or my laptop because I didn't
want any sympathy comments as I knew it would only make me feel worse, but that night I just
wanted to see what people had put on his Facebook wall, the moment I logged onto my account, I
had thousands of notifications. I switched my laptop straight off; I knew I shouldn't have gone on in
the first place.
The next day was his funeral, I didn't think I would be able to cope, but I knew I would have lots of
people there to support me, but I knew it would be harder for his family than it would be for
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