What I Learned in English Class: a Reflection

What i learned in english class? I’ve learned many things through the course of this class: how to write a good essay, how to get batter at some essays I’ve already written in the past. I’ve learned how to locate my resources to find each mistake in my writing. I use the library more and of course the most obvious is the textbook. I mainly use the book to learn how to cite research and any other errors I’ve done. On reflection I can say this class has been fun and I would recommend this for anybody.

What I Have Obtained

Usefullness

With all I have gained from my English classes I’ve took, will be useful to me in the years to come. Most schools around are requiring you to take an English course because it’s useful and something you’d need to overcome in school with higher elevation. This English class has really prepared me for future tasks, because as an athlete we have to read through documents that are written by others. This means I will have to write letters of recommendation if I wanted to get a job and you’d want that to be as perfect as it can get. It’s is necessary to be able to write reports for my future profession of job I chose to go into. The writing skills I’ve learned my two years here at the University of Alabama will be with throughout my college years and my workforce. Many say you will not even use what you’ve learn after college but in some cases you will need your educational mind for a task you have to complete. My teacher taught me things I’ve never learned before. Well really I have but he taught them better for me to understand English writing more. Broken everything down for the class and I caught on fast and that was surprising to me. He was dedicated to actually teach us the formula of writing. Lots of Hands was raised for questions and that’s shows a good sign that we are learning something new. I would like to read some of his work if it’s available to see how great he is. Another reason he made writing fun is the pass papers that was terrible and he made us read them. We’ve all came along way from terrible to great. I want to be well educated and smart in all my courses from this English class.

Writing a Research Paper

From every one of the things that I have learned up until this point, none of them were harder than attempting to do a research paper. I hated doing them in in high school. That’s one of my weaknesses. You have to gather so much information about a topic given to you, which makes it challenging. I and my classmates would link up at the library to work together on the paper. They were very helpful on every part I needed. We were actually getting a lot done and for the first time I saw how to write and set up a research paper. All of my previous papers was not good at all I fact, I would even recommend having someone read over it because it would be a waste of time. Knowing what I know now about research papers; I could’ve been so excellent from the start and been finished the course a long time ago. I look back on it and be like wow, all it took was dedication and a few students that could help me out a bit. That jumpstart was all I needed so I took it and ran with it. I learned how to cite in MLA and APA format. It took a little time understanding the difference from them but I managed to get it.

Writing a Profile Paper

The last paper of the course was a profile paper. We couldn’t use no real big famous person which would’ve been way easier. So he wanted us to pick a famous person that not in the spotlight like all the others. We all have our strengths and weaknesses but my weaknesses always outweigh my strength. I wanted to pick Kobe Bryant but that was to known so I just found and unknown person. You have to look up the background of that person at all so that’s what I did. Everybody in the class was confused but we said let’s take on the challenge. We all created a group message so we’ll stay in contact and update each other on some were having trouble with. The hardest part about writing a paper is when I’m given a topic I have no idea about and I’d have to do some research on it which I don’t like doing. I think I could write the best papers if it was something I could chose to write about all the time. I could write a ten page paper if I wanted too. But teachers like to lick and challenge our brains which I understand and give them credit for that. We just have to be prepared for it all whenever that Time comes. The class big with a small room for all of us, I kind of thought we was thrown in a storage. He kept it so cold in there and my crazy self-stay coming in with short sleeves shirt and shorts. I just be shaking cold the whole time and it’s kind of hard learning some in a cold room. Least we were only in there for an hour though. It’s been my best class so far. I sat in the front of class every day because I felt I had to set an example since I was an athlete to show them that we work too.

Conclusion

To conclude this reflective essay, due to this class I, as a writer, have definitely developed. Throughout this summer class, I have felt myself feeling more confident and comfortable and much better at seeing and picking up errors. When doing the revisions on the papers Mr. Wheathersby corrections really help me see what I did wrong, and keep me from making the error frequently. Which I feel is a big issue with me, I make about five or ten of the same grammatical errors regularly because I’m not sure what the correct way is. I think after this semester when I take my next English class I will be getting to a good writer.

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