This semester I’ve added on to my communicating skills, with my peers, such as working more group oriented. I’m used to working alone and depending on myself, but luckily I have great classmates that are easy to work with and fun. In our class we try to find the deeper meaning behind certain things and with so many different perspectives it really opens my eyes to things I normally wouldn’t have considered. I’m trying to grow more by taking a thought another step further like how we discuss things in class. My writing can always get better whether its free writing or on an assignment. Even though I’ve made some improvements, reading new literature and seeing the style that it’s written in, is always inspiring to read and find my own way to reiterate it. Overall, it’s been a great semester so far that I’d like to add on to.
-Onu Mezbah
At the beginning of the semester I felt lost in some of the lectures. It’s my second english literature class and the first in which I read texts of this type so naturally I struggled a little bit with some texts. The word usage is not the most common which made it tricky for me and the readings used to take me a long time because I had to translate some of the words to really understand the meaning. As the semester advanced and I got more readings under my belt I started to feel more and more comfortable, class lectures were super useful, hearing my classmates give their opinions and being able to see their analysis made me understand different perspectives which at the end I think gave me more tools for me to analyze the readings by myself. I still struggle with grammar and word usage, because this readings are very deep I sometimes try to use words I don’t usually do and use them in an incorrect way. I want to keep improving my writing skills, I want to learn how to be more concise, precise and much more clear.
Joaquin Azcue
One of the reasons I choose to take this class was is because I love to write, I believe my writing skills are average and I hope at the end of the semester they will improve and be better then average. Being analytical is very important in this class. I like analyzing the works we read because it allows us to discuss different meanings and views of a specific story, sentencing or wording. I participate in every class because I enjoy contributing to the discussion I’ve done okay on the quizzes, however I would like to start doing better. Time management is something I’ve always struggled with and still struggle with. This classes forces me to work on this because we have a specific deadline each week. To conclude by the end of this class I hope to have better writing skills and be able to manage my time efficiently.
Katarina Stojanovic
Throughout my academic career, most of my English courses have required me to read books no matter how long they were. But in fact I’ve never really finished these books. Reason being is because they were primarily too time consuming for me. I’ve always been able to avoid this and still be able to ace the class. But this course turned out to be different. From the start of the semester up until now I found myself finding the time and giving in the effort to not only read the texts, but read it until I received a grasp understanding. I think the major reason for this transition has to do with whether or not the the certain texts are appealing to me. And they indeed were. But aside from the improvements in my reading habits, I’ve come to realize my writing needs to be further developed as well. Specifically having a narrow focus on my essays. This is something I am currently working on in order to be constantly improving.
Farhan Zaman
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j.azcue // Mar 24th 2017 at 10:22 am
I completely understand the time management issue Kat deals with. Having a lot of classes, assignments, work, etc can be overwhelming. What I do is keep a Trello calendar where I have my “To do list” and helps me keep all my things organized in one place and as a result I stopped procrastinating.
Farhan, I do struggle a lot in keeping a narrow focus on my essays, specially the critical essays. What I did was read all the posts in every assignment and learnt from our classmates. We all have different writing styles and varied points of view but it was very useful to see their technique. Hope this help you guys!!
f.zaman1 // Mar 24th 2017 at 10:27 am
I used to have the same issue as Joaquin mentioned. Being able to read and understand sophisticated vocabulary can be very tedious. But the only way to improve is to constantly be reading books preferably one reading level higher than you normally would. Not only would this give you a more in depth understand of the texts, but it would give you the ability to put those certain vocabulary words into context which is critical for your writing skills as well.
j.guzman3 // Mar 24th 2017 at 11:31 am
Jorge G. Response (2/2)- Onu Mezbah
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You are right, these are a fun and easy going lot of classmates and because of that it makes group work go more fluently-Which is my biggest worry when asked to work in groups. Due to the level of comprehension in which our classmates spoke of the stories, I too began to find it important to further analyze the stories instead of just summarizing it. Lastly, writing can be a bit problematic but consequently, it goes hand in hand with reading (at least 75% of the class). Through reading, you can get accustomed to different ways of writing and reiterating ideas.
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