M.Course+Reflection

Raven Watkins Reflection Essay

This year I started writing my papers below average. There is no excuse for that. I had weak papers and just getting the grades. I feel like I have changed as a writer and become more skillful. My weakness in writing is my grammar and I make so many fragments. In a lot of my comments from my teacher she would write “you" are starting out with a fragment”, it is a simple mistake and I have gotten better. Another weakness is using so many contractions. I would always use “couldn’t” and the most common “don’t” but I revise my papers so I do not have that mistake. In the beginning I would put the word “you” in a lot of my papers. My teachers have taught me that it is unprofessional and does not look serious enough. I tried really hard this year to have better A papers. I know that they have improved so much in eight months. In the past years, I would write the number the numerical way but now I spell the word out. My class was taught the run-on problems but I did not have many problems with that.  My favorite paper that I wrote this year would have to be the __Theme for English 11.__ It was fun writing about me and being personal. I usually do not like writing for myself. I get insecure and do not like opening up to people. But this was a great way to express myself. I felt confident in myself and as a writer. If I can tell my story, then anyone who feels the same way as me can open up too. It felt like journal writing but it was not. I enjoyed doing this because I have an interest in the Harlem Renaissance. I find that stuff to be really creative and it expresses people individuality. My least and worst writing assignment would have to be the self-reliance project. I could not find a way to make it work for me. Maybe I just did not understand what I was supposed to do but I know for a fact it was hard. I am usually good at doing creative things but I was so off topic. I was really disappointed in myself so bad. But thank god that was over with and I have moved on as a writer. This year I got to work on a new way to do my portfolio, the wiki way. I prefer to do the wiki spaces because it keeps your more organized and it’s easy. The paper way would be so messy and could lose work easily. One year my teacher actually lost my paper and I was so furious. The wiki keeps it all in order the way you want it, has the exact time and date you put it up so it is no time, and it is another way of expressing yourself. I would prefer if every teacher did the wiki space way.