Reflection Essay

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At the beginning of this course I set a goal. I have never been really good at English and I had not taken any English course in two years. I consider this facts set my goal to get a B in this course. It has been a semester already and this course is ends. Looking back at the entire semester, I realize I was too naïve. I failed to achieve the grade I wanted in this class.
I failed to achieve the grade I wanted for this class because MLA formatting was too complicated. On the very first day of this course was the first I ever heard of MLA formatting. I would later have to use MLA formatting to write every single essay, summary and draft. It was complicated because I had no previous knowledge of it from high school. In high school, no format was specified for writing an essay, all I had to do when given an essay question was write two or three pages to answer the question. I had to look through the MLA formatting requirements every time I started a new essay. I would have to adjust the line space, the font and add page numbers every time. The most difficult was the citation. I could not properly cite a source until …show more content…

Since English is my second language, I ended up making grammatical errors that counted off points from all my essays. Due to my limited vocabulary I could not effectively explain my points. I ended up writing vague thesis. And when the thesis is vague the trend of the entire essay becomes unclear. I used word incorrectly in my essays. I read a lot of novels and see different unfamiliar words in them, however, I do not check their meanings. While writing my essays, some of this words popped into my head and I use them without checking their meanings. I also rescind my essays to just three pages maximum because I could only write that much. I ended up producing essays that would meet college-level writing

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English Composition 1101 for Life!