Reflective Response Essay

When I started this class I thought I was somewhat alright writer. I understood the basics of writing and believed I knew how to write an entertaining piece. All of the papers we wrote showed me one of my weaknesses as a writer. The first paper we wrote about ourselves helped me to understand that I wasn’t as good a writer as I thought. Any paper, had it been the first, would have showed me this. When I sent my paper I thought it was the best thing I had ever written, however when I got my grade back and it was a b I realised my best wasn’t good enough and I needed to step it up if I wanted to really be proud of my papers. The summary response essay wasn’t anything too special. All of the information for that paper was already in the

I, like so many other college students, am infected with the procrastination virus. I get a great sense of fufillment when I complete a paper and I would love to take my time and perfect ever paper, however with the option to either start writing my paper or looking at twitter to see what Trump tweeted, I’ll regrettably choose the latter. During midterms I only had a set amount of time to work on a paper and I had no distractions to follow. I realised how much work I could get done if I would just set aside my phone for a while. It is funny how once you learn a word you start to hear it everywhere you go, it seems like everyone has learned the word at the same time as you, but you know that isn’t true. It was that way for Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. They were never terms I was equated with and I found it very interesting to learn about them and try to put ethics, emotion, and logic into my papers. I would try and point the three of these out when reading an argument for the exploratory research paper to try and see if they relied too much on the emotional aspects to see if I wanted to put them in my

I’ll admit that I may not have written a weekly journal every week and I may or may not have waited till the day before they were due to finish any of them. I like to pour over my papers and make them a work of art, but I have to remember that some papers are like doodles on napkins and in most cases they are drawn just to be thrown away.
Being my first semester in college, I was unaware of what this class or any other class would hold. My goals were simple; get good grades at Delta to get good grades at another school to get a good job. I believe that the majority of students share my goals. For the forty odd pages we wrote for this class, I feel that the overall achievement was getting practice. I wasn’t required to write many papers in high school so for me the constant writing was helpful for me. I can really tell a difference in the way that I write now from the way that I wrote at the start of this year. I’m really looking forward to next year, because seeing yourself improve over a short amount of time really is