“Mistakes are always
forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
If you spend too much
time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
To hell with
circumstances; I create opportunities.”
-Bruce Lee
This quote is from one of the most influential people in my life. I believe this quote justifies many things I’ve learned in my English 101 class. The point of the quote would be to stop thinking too much and do what you set out to do. Get your point across. Through writing sketches I noticed that there is going to be grammar, organizational, and citation mistakes. The next point is to correct them and better your writing. It all begins with mistakes.
May 12, 2016
Dear Hollie Villanueva,
Thank you for the most influential English class I believe I have ever had. Not only that but it was actually enjoyable. I’m absolutely positive I have never said an English class was enjoyable. I must admit I’ve never believed in myself as a writer. Throughout my years of writing, all my professors and classes have been nothing but a bore. I’d also be terrified that other students would notice that I wasn't the best writer. However, at the beginning you mentioned that we weren't going to be graded on how good our papers are but if we did them correctly. At that point I felt greatly relieved. It takes so much stress off and actually made me focus on writing how I feel comfortable and not have to follow “the rules of writing”.
The personal essay turned out to quite successful for me. I remember the first day you told us about our first essay. I also remember my hands getting sweaty and my throat becoming dry as I dreaded having to come up with ideas on what to write about. Then you mentioned our prompt. At that point I started to love doing curiosity journals because they tie up and connect with our writing assignments. Not to mention it was fun going out and observing people and how they react with other individuals. I also found how people laugh to be very interesting. I had done most of the writing assignment through curiosity journals so it seemed quite relieving and I was glad to write it.
The profile essay was a bit more difficult but I had great determination to write a good paper because of who I wrote about. Robin Williams is very important to me and I had no problem researching and writing about his life. I actually enjoyed learning from this great idol. I believe this paper was my best from the assignments I did. I learned a great deal from this assignment. One thing I learned from the assignment I the importance of peer review. As I said before I hate being judged on how I write. When the day came to get in groups and peer review, I had to grow courage and let people read my work. Of course people wrote more educated with rich words but it encouraged me a bit more to write with rich vocabulary.
I found the argumentative essay to be really difficult. Argument essays are usually my strongest writings and I felt very amateur with what I was writing. Maybe I just had trouble with the prompt. At one point I had ideas but I was lost in how to organize my ideas on paper. After finishing my updraft I knew I needed help. Then a great opportunity came up and you said you were to review our updrafts. I took the opportunity to come to your office and get input. I must say I was a little bummed out by looking at how many errors I had on the paper but it led me in the right direction. Everything went uphill from there and I tried to make a better paper.
I feel like I have improved during this semester in your class. I now know how to correctly cite my sources. I also have developed a better way of preparing for a final paper. I understand the significance of other’s views and inputs in my work. I can research easily now. I have came a long way from the beginning of the semester and I see much improvement but I still have along way to go.
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