Bose-Final+Reflection

Final Reflection I have learned much from my first college english class ever through the likes of English 1010. This class has helped me grow as a student and a person and I am sure, will help me with my future education. It has helped me grow as a reader, a writer, and finally as a person. This class has helped me become much stronger as a reader. We read many selections in this class of many different genres. To list some examples we read research essays, comparitive essays, narrative essays, and descriptive essays. Reading all of these different types of essays have helped broadened my knowledge of different pieces and familiarized me with more literature. Also, with the many analysis’ we have done it has helped me to better be able to comprehend different pieces. With all of the class discussion and examination of pieces I learned to recognize tone, theme, thesis, and many others. I have learned to disect essays and pieces of writing and truly understand them. My reading comprehension was greatly benefitted by this class. Another aspect English 1010 has helped me with is my writing. I have never been super confident with my writing but this class has truly helped. As a class we wrote discriptive, research, classification and other formal essays. I received pretty good grades on these pieces and received great feedback on what I could improve. I learned how to write a true thesis statement and fix many grammatical errors such as comma splices and run-ons from this feedback and the many lessons we received. What I have learned from this class has put more writing tools under my belt and allowed me more confidence in my writing. The many lessons on writing that I have received in this class I’m sure will carry over into the rest of schooling career. Finally, English 1010 has not only helped me as a student, but has also helped me grow as a person. The fast pace of the class has caused me to have to prioritize and manage my time with the many writing assignments we were given. I had to many times turn off the television and force myself to get on the computer and write an essay. This class also taught me responsibility in how the class was much more free structured and things were not as forced upon you as in high school. Everything was really up to you and the only person you had to blame was yourself in this class. I have learned many lessons in this class which will help me in the long run.