What can I say? It just passed so quickly, but let me take some time to write out my reflection. I felt that my writing did change in some ways, as I felt like I was writing way better than my past self. It almost developed as I was writing to tell a story in every essay I was writing. My goals for my writing were to be able to define my reasons and clearly explain what I wanted to say in a simpler but clearer manner. I think they were met, as I felt that sitting down to write a whole essay became easier, as I can now develop ideas and use them while I write about something. I felt much easier to piece together and type out the reasons and explain the questions to which my essay answered them. I also had goals to improve my grammar problems, as I still feel the same, but I did learn what I was doing wrong in order to not make my sentence way too wordy and learned to cut some out to induce some simpler words.

I can’t say about any one piece of writing that I was particularly proud of because the real sense was that I was proud of every single one of my writing this semester, as I feel like I was improving after one and another being able to craft together my thoughts much easier than the last one. I am simply proud of it because every piece of writing was a step forward in improving the way I was writing, and the results of the failures I had in those pieces of writing reflect back. My insights were that when you are writing the piece of writing, it almost feels like you are telling the story, giving you this free idea of how you want to write out what you want to say, as it gives you this free will to express yourself, similar to real life, where it is better to understand a person and let them explain themselves rather than you reading off them and deciding. I think the experience of reading and reflecting on it may leave some clouds in your mind as it is simply unclear. For example, reading a poem might give you a meaning of it, but it is different from what the person who wrote it wanted it to be, and the person who may also read it may have a different meaning from you.

I think that one piece of writing that was definitely particularly challenging for me was the rhetorical analysis essay, as trying to write about Dracula and Marxist criticism was difficult because you had to understand both concepts well enough to write about them and then relate them both together to be able to compare them. I meet those challenges by being confused at first about the relationship between these two ideas and trying to piece together a rhetorical analysis essay for it. It really did strike me when I started writing that all my ideas just started to flood into my mind, allowing me to write out easier than sitting there worrying about what to include next. I dealt with the difficulty of the process by researching the topic beforehand and understanding the concepts first before writing my rhetorical analysis essay on it.

Well, I felt that I really did learn a lot and definitely recommend taking this course, as I rate it out a full star for the different essays I had to write, but it really did help me experience all the different essays I could write and how to improve on them. THANK YOU Professor Perry, you shall be remember as long I live when I put up my pencil to write another essay. I will keep in mind the skills that you taught us.