Reflection

Taking this class has been a struggle and a mountain to overcome. I’ve always had troubles in English classes due to procrastination and to being not motivated. The skills that I have learned in this class has been my writing process, I’ve added extra reviews into what I typically do. I notice that the more people who review it for me the better the writing in the end. I plan to apply that to my future college courses when essays come along. Hopefully that will better my grades. The readings in the class haven’t affected me much, one thing that it has done is opened my eyes to what other kinds of things there are to read, I learned that the readings in the class are the kind I would like to avoid in the future. I’ve never liked reading but having to read Frankenstein really pushed me to my limits and made me have to step outside the box to fully understand the book. I think I have met the learning outcomes for the class, the one that I think I still have problems with is to interpret and analyze texts, I understand it but I seem to struggle in that the most than anything. With the essay we did for Frankenstein I found that the most troubling essay, especially sense the book wasn’t of my interest. The process to getting the essay finished was hard, the book never really stuck in my head, which made it a struggle, once I got it finished my grade was not what I’d like but it just made me more determined to succeed in my next essays. The one outcome I feel that I succeeded in most is the organizational strategies, taking this class took me to a new level of organization. In both life and in my essays, it wasn’t easy but I feel that I have brought my organization up in this class. My writing process has changed in a few little ways, the main thing is that I review it more than I used to. I have more people review it and mush all of their opinions into my paper and I think it has really helped my finals seem more finalized. The biggest challenges were in writing. The analysis writing is the hardest I’ve ever had to deal with, when it comes to essays. I’m not a deep reader; I don’t typically read between the lines and analyze what it could mean. So I found it the hardest thing to over come, I still don’t feel extremely confident in it but I definitely feel better now than I did at the beginning of the class. Overall I have gained a lot from this class. I hope to use what I have learned in my future classes and in life.