Reflective Reflection In English

Throughout this semester of English I have learned and expanded my knowledge in every aspect of writing.Among the various areas that this course has influenced, the skills that I had the most understanding over and will probably use most in my future are: the writing process; the ability to manipulate the format and design of my works to fit the genre and audience; and the ability to integrate verbal an visual media in my essays. Two areas that I have struggled with are the rhetorical situation and my grammar & usage; I hope to improve in these areas in my future projects outside of English. During this course I also learned how to apply biblical principles to my writing and I am surprised to learn that these principles are applicable in everything we do. Although I have many errors still in my writing I have come a long way from where I

There is always room for improvement. The most important process to a successful essay is the writing process. In these past four months I have learned about each of the five steps, (Prewriting, drafting, peer-reviews, revising, and editing) why they are important, and how to fulfill them to there fullest. I still do not have complete understanding over these steps, but compared to last year when I had no knowledge of the writing process I have improved a great deal. My improvement can best be seen when looking at my summary and response essay’s process writing (How My Illiterate Grandmother Raised an Educated Black Man) next to my comparison & contrast’s (Windows vs. Ubuntu). My summary and response was my first essay in this class and it shows how I doing my process writing after I had just learned about it, whereas my comparison and contrast is my most recent text essay. Just by glancing through these essays I can see how I now