Reflective Draft (Blog #5)

Mid-Semester Reflective Cover Letter

During the course of this semester so far we have discussed the basic learning process of writing a successful paper. We are six weeks into my first semester of college and I can say that my writing skill has improved very much. Even though they are not perfect and are full of areas of improvement, this has definitely been a huge stepping stone for me and my writing. I spent many days working on my papers from emailing them to my dad, revising them over with peers, and just simple revision over and over again. By the end of the end of the semester I hope to go into the next level of college English a good understanding of forming a precision paper. Throughout my reflection I’m going to discuss my strengths and weakness’.
I entered English 101 with no clue on how the class was going to be. I surely came in with the perspective of “I got this in the bag.” After leaving high school and a high school were teaching was an effort for our teachers. My teachers were very careless and my English skills were according to them, excellent. I believe that one of my strengths that I developed on my own was forming good points in each of my paragraphs. I was able to take a piece of work and read it, analyze it, and break it down. The lacking concept that I had was the ability to take my ideas and form it into a comprehendible paragraph. My sentence structure was weak. With run-on sentences and pathetic grammar, my paragraphs were hard to understand to my professor. But as I’m writing this reflective paper I am being very careful on structuring. In the two papers I wrote for Professor Fornes there were mistakes of clarity and punctuation on both papers. Fornes wrote notes and ideas for improvement such as “you have great ideas”, “hard to understand what is being said.”