Reflection Essay

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I’m currently a sophomore at Sacramento State University. I’m majoring in Nursing. English 20M is one of the required classes for graduation. In English 20M, I did many writing and reading assignments. For informal assignments, there were summary & response papers, the midterm exam, writer’s workshop, worksheets, pop quizzes and conferences with the instructor. With the formal assignments, there were formal assignment 1(FA1), poster presentation, formal assignment 2 (FA2) and group presentation. The purpose to do these assignments was to meet the four learning outcomes of English 20M. Speaking about the four learning outcomes, there are “reading texts from a variety genres, identifying appropriate context based writing conventions, developing …show more content…

Moreover, I need to include two or more different types of my work done in class to prove that I have met four course outcomes. For the portfolio, I decide to choose a summary & response paper and FA1 to show that I have met the course’s objective.
The process to compose a summary & response paper was quite frustrating. First, I had to read the guidebook. This process met outcome one, which was reading texts from a variety genres. I have met this outcome because in English 20M, I read many different texts like articles, textbooks or guidebooks. Guidebook was one of the focused text genres to compose the summary & response papers. To write each paper, I had to read different guidebooks that were about the different types of writings from the different majors. Learning how to read the guidebooks helped me to write my summary & response papers. After reading the guidebook, I would start to identify the writing requirements of my paper. There were several writing rules that I needed to apply on. The summary & response paper was a single-spaced paper; it could be a one-two page. The requirements were half of the paper should be a summary about the guidebook and the other part should be my response to the information. Identifying the writing rules for a summary & response paper met outcome

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English 111 Unit 1 Assignment

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