Class Reflection

Entering this class on the first day my mentality was forcing the thought upon me that it would be hell throughout this fall semester. I was pleasantly surprised as to how well the class went for me, because previous years of English I had never really grasped as many things as I did throughout this one semester. Even with our short amount of time together and the hardships of a once a week course professor Miller has truly been impacted my writing in a major way! She introduced me to the helpful tools of SmartThinking and PaperRater which have also improved my writing greatly by helping to point out the simple errors I may have missed. I have learned a lot about the different forms of papers such as compare and contrast papers are not persuasive

For example, within my first essay for the class I said “I prefer Herson’s “No Knock” deeply expresses the fact that the racism happening is a very scary thing to those being affected by it, and that it is not okay because we are all American and should not be defined and discriminated because of color.” In which was clearly poor usage of my vocabulary while sounding very blotchy. While within my third writing of this course I stated “For example, our presentation is about bringing awareness to racism in hopes of enlightening others and motivating them to make a stand against racism, yet when we tried to find a short clip showing the harsh reality of what can happen half of our group spent the whole class watching people be abused and attacked as if it were a movie.” The difference between these two sentences are tremendous in terms of vocabulary usage and the tone of my writing. The first example is very bland and does not show just how severely I thought of the issue while in the second example you clearly see that I am baffled by the cruel reality I was facing at the time. Just based off these two examples alone you can see so much growth within my writing, and I still give all the thanks to professor Miller for helping me see to true beauty behind