English Midterm
With the past few weeks, I can honestly say that this English 101 course has helped me so much already. I used to have trouble with being able to think clearly and I also had trouble with being able to write in a way in which my reader would be able to understand where I'm coming form. Now, I can think with more clarity, and I can also write with more clarity. With the Daily Journal, the two essay papers, the exercises, the web postings and reading the textbook, I have gained a lot of knowledge that I didn't already have. The Daily Writing Journal was a good experience for me. I haven't written in my own personal journal for two years and I wanted to get back into it. With writing for this class, it has helped me get back into the mood of writing in a journal. From my daily writing journals, I have learned that writing can be used as therapy. I say that because, when I wrote on some of these days, I was angry, depressed, or happy. For the angry and depressed days that I experienced, I wrote what was going on through my mind. I wrote what I was feeling, what caused me to feel that way, and so forth. When I started writing a specific entry, I would feel depressed, or I would be filled with hate, but towards the end of
From my two essays, I have learned that it takes a lot of time to develop a good essay. It takes a lot of work, energy, and thinking as well. Writing an essay takes so much out from you. When I typed both of my essays, I felt as if I could keep typing forever. When I type my essays though, I start of by typing a little paragraph, and then I start another one even if the first one isn't quite done. Then, I keep going back and forth adding and deleting what I want from the each paragraph. I had a hard time posting up all the assignments required for this course so far because of my computer crashing on me, freezing when I needed to save or post something, and I also had trouble with AOL connections. I learned that I shouldn't take another online course with having the knowledge that my computer will crash on me whether I like it or not. It may crash on me, and I won't be able to take the whole class. There are always alternatives if my computer doesn't work, such as using the computer at school, but those alternatives don't always work as well. Some of the short stories and essays that I have read in our textbook so far, have helped me to understand this world of ours far more than I did before. It's interesting to see people to write about topics that no one has ever written or even thought about it. For example, the essay, "Toward Something American" written by Peter Marin is about no one in America actually being a true "American". I didn't even think about everyone in America as an immigrant, even whites, till I read this essay. It made me think a lot
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Approximate Word count = 1069
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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