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The Last Reflection: Never Stop Writing: Self-Assessment

The student reflects on their experience in their college English class, noting that while they initially had fears about the class, they found it to be a positive experience that helped improve their writing. The student discusses how tools like keeping a Day Book and participating in peer workshops helped develop their writing. While some assignments were challenging, the student feels they gained a better appreciation of academic texts and that their writing skills improved the most. In conclusion, the student expresses gratitude for the class and feels it has given them skills they will be able to use for the rest of their life.

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The Last Reflection: Never Stop Writing: Self-Assessment

The student reflects on their experience in their college English class, noting that while they initially had fears about the class, they found it to be a positive experience that helped improve their writing. The student discusses how tools like keeping a Day Book and participating in peer workshops helped develop their writing. While some assignments were challenging, the student feels they gained a better appreciation of academic texts and that their writing skills improved the most. In conclusion, the student expresses gratitude for the class and feels it has given them skills they will be able to use for the rest of their life.

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Dixie Smith Smith 1

Dr. Jan Rieman

English 1103

December 2, 2010
Self-Assessment: I feel like this paper really shares how I feel about this class. I also like that

it sounds like me. At one point I doubted myself about whether or not I such include more about

what we did in the class, but the I concluded that I shouldn’t, because the things I wrote about

were the features of the class that affected me the most. I still feel a little unsure about the way I

didn’t really introduce my paragraphs, but I kind of liked them that way. Lastly, I really liked the

conclusion I came to at the end of this paper.

The Last Reflection: Never Stop Writing

I’ve just about reached the end of my college English class, and I have to say it’s been an

excellence experience. Each of us, as individual students, came into this class with individual

expectations and fears. And while in this class I have confronted challenges and faced new ideas

that I have found difficult to comprehend, but learned to appreciate. However, I also was offered

better tools that we can utilize in the writings ahead of us in order to create better context. I feel I

speak for all of us as students when I state that this class has been freeing experience for our

writing concepts.

As I said before, each of us first walked into our first college English class with

expectation and fears. I know from conversing with my fellow classmates that each of us carried

this horrifying idea in our heads of billions of writing assignments, six-inch-thick books to read

from cover to cover in the span of a semester, and decrepit spinster English teachers. However,

on the first day of class I recall feeling relieved as Dr. Jan began summarizing the projects and

requirements for the course. We would be obliged to read one normal-sized book, read academic

essays, and of course write papers, but not in the billions. In all honesty, I began to look forward
to this course, because in the past few years of my high school English classes my growth had

been stunted and the opportunity to try something new with my writing just wasn’t avaliable.

It was also on that same initial day that Dr. Jan introduced us to a new idea: the Day

Book. The Day Book, she explained, would be a place for us to record our thoughts and ideas

pertaining to the class, or really anything else too. Dr. Jan told us it was a designated place for us

to get our ideas rolling. As the class went on the Day Books also became a place for us to write

our opinions on those academic essays that I mentioned before. I really enjoyed the use of the

Day Books. It was so useful to have a place to write down the thoughts and frustrations that were

swimming around in my head.

It wasn’t long after that we began to read academic readings from our textbook, Writers

on Writing. Our first in-depth reading was called Sponsors of Literacy. I recollect coming to my

book with an open mind, thinking that nothing else in this class had been awful, so why should I

go into this assignment with a negative mind-set. Nevertheless, probably no more than twenty

minutes later I was dragging myself through this text. My brain was hurting, my focus had

already gone out the window, and I was starting to doubt my success at getting through this.

However, despite the trial that it was, I managed to crawl my way through that reading. When I

was finished I can’t exactly say I was proud of what I had done in that moment, but as time went

on I began to better understand the content of scholarly essays such as that one, and from those

moments I gained a better appreciation of those works of literature.

The other experience from this class that I have really appreciated was Peer Workshops.

Dr. Jan paired us off into groups of four after we had completed out first draft on the first major

paper we were writing. She informed us that these groups would be our Peer Workshops for the

rest of the semester. Each time we were in the process of writing a major paper, we would
separate into our writing groups to read, critique, and suggest revision for our writing partner’s

papers. I found this to be extremely beneficial for my writing. Because even when I felt I had

written a superb paper, I would come to my Peer Workshop and be given a new outlook on the

content of my paper. Because when one of my partners read my paper, they would come to the

content with a fresh mind-set of a person who hasn’t read the paper before. For that reason, they

would notice new details that needed revision that I hadn’t noticed before. I think that this is

probably the activity that improved my writing the most. Also, hearing what others had to say

about my writing sort-of tuned me into what mistakes I should be looking for in my own writing

as I write.

Of all the English classes I’ve taken this has been the one I’ve grown the most in. In most

ways that growth has been a pleasant occurrence, but in a few cases I had “growing pains”; times

when the new ideas, challenges, or tools were hard for me to take in. However, the difficulty has

been worth the benefits. I am so grateful for this class. It has given me skills that I will be able to

use for the rest of life, because, you never stop writing.

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