My English is so poor; I want to improve my English. First time, I avoided classes that involved a lot of writing, as I was still intimidated by past failures. But when poor writing began to affect my grades in other courses, I decided to take a composition class. Now, I use my On Course textbook in my English class, this journal will help me about self-awareness. I began to see how negative scripts could cause problems.
The feeling that I have when writing is a very joyous one because it is my nonverbal communication to express my emotions and thoughts without the critism of the outside world. Writing is truly an art that takes practice and concentration, and once you have accomplished this skill, you will succeed in the process of writing. To begin with, the experience that I have had as a writer were both good and bad. They were good because I was able to earn good grades on my essays in school, I made excellent pen pal friends because of my ability to write and I was able to survive my teenage years with the writings that took place in my diary. Writing was my safe haven and it always cheered me up because of the fact that I could transfer my thoughts from my mind and unto a sheet of paper that would hold memories of a lifetime!
While still doing this, she persuades her readers to look at the feminine side while still considering the male perspective as well. Lastly, Sady Doyle takes all of her elements she uses throughout her article to tie all her ideas into one clear thought. As a teacher though, one has to consider if those elements make an article worth reading in their English class. Comparing Sady Doyle’s article to an article written by Alexandra Owens shows teachers that even though Sady has a well thought out article with structure and evidence, it will not be an effective article to show in an English classroom. Alexandra Owens is a female writer who has a career in the English Department and has written an article on Twilight stereotypes that is very similar to Sady Doyle’s.
Second, I think she really cared about her students’ reason being she took time to make sure they could spot the wrong grammar. She also asks them questions about the paragraphs. She then asks them to continue from where they left off and she graded as they moved forward with their writings. She also did not give them much wait time. Then by Friday the students were to write an additional paragraph but in a quiz manner and then she had another student read the essay out loud checking for the proper content from what they had just studied.</P> | * | * | * 11.
Therefore my first goal for this class is to refresh my memory on writing a good paper. I want to learn to be a better and more effective writer. Then I want to be able to take what I have learned from this class and put it to use in the future classes. It has been 26 years since I have taken an English class. I am having a hard time remembering what strategies I have used in the past to become a better writer.
Anthony Suryajaya English 101 December 8, 2013 Reflective Commentary Some people take classes just to make sure that they get good grades in every single subject they take and just to fulfill the requirement of the associate degrees they might choose at North Seattle Community College. Well, I do have the same goal as them, yet I feel that I need to learn a lot of things from each subject that I take and I feel that experiences are the most important thing that needs to be considered. In this quarter, I take English 101 as one of my subjects this quarter. I think that I was a bad writer before I take this English 101 class because I really feel that I do not know how to write correctly. I do not know how to write a good introduction and conclusion, and I have a bad grammar structure.
I am a very detail-oriented individual who prefers to have a rock solid foundation built before I proceed to new challenges. I want to learn the basics before seeing the big picture. For example, I have learned to use a thing called 5 steps annotation. This is something that my English teacher have showed me it is a better way to understand what you are reading and she always said “keep a highlighter, pen or pencil in your hand”. She always mentioned this because some people would just read a whole entire story and forget what they have read.
Reading more will help improve students’ basic writing mechanics. Now writing is accessible for everyone and the more exposure and more writing people do the better they will get at it. Not only has the quantity of writing increased but also the quality of the writing is improving. Not only does digital technology improve the quantity of students’ writing but also it pushes students to constantly learn and improve their writing skills. The more students write the more they learn.
Most ones I would have liked were too advanced for me, so I wouldn’t have been able to read them. Throughout my childhood reading was not my strong point in school, but I learned to be a much better reader. I have become a better reader now with lots of hard work and reading still affects my everyday life. Now a days I will sometimes read for fun and books for school too. During school when I read I sometimes struggle on larger words or ones I don’t know, but I work very hard and it pays off.
But, she wanted to prove herself and others wrong and majored in English her first year in college. She liked English much better too. Even now Asians still feel like that or get asked dumb questions as to if their better in math than in anything. And I know this because I do have Asian friends. And this isn’t true because I know some that are horrible in the area of mathematics.