Writ 101 First Quarter Reflection

In this quarter of Writ 101 I have learned a lot.  We have completed four essays; our memoir, our mascots, our political cartoon, and our research paper. Each one is different from the next. I have found that because of the different expectations in each essay I have had to learn how to be more conforming as the author of the essay.  We spent a week on citations which really helped me in my research paper.  I hadn’t known all that much about citations and to have all of it clarified helped me. I have learned that the most important part of writing a paper is discussion.  When we peer edit I get so much feedback that I can immediately apply to my paper and help improve it all together. I hope to become and learn so much more about myself as a writer throughout the rest of this class.

Out of all of the essays that we have completed I have found that the mascots essay was the hardest for me to figure out what was expected of me. I found that it was difficult to establish an opinion and write in length about it but when we were in class and had discussions about mascots it helped. 

I have enjoyed being in a college class with my high school classmates.  I love seeing how each person writes and how different all of our thought processes are.  I like getting feedback on my work and how we all help each other get better in our peer editing sessions.

I was surprised about how easy I took to citations! It shocked me that it wasn’t quite as complicated as I thought it would be.  I was also surprised by all of the actual comma rules.  There are so many to actually remember, however, I caught on.

I hope to learn so much more about myself as writer as we continue on in this semester. I am really grateful that I got the opportunity to take this class!