Metacognitive Essay

thought all I would be doing was writing essays, indeed there was allot of essay writing,

but there were many other key skills that I learned. Which included critical reading,

collaboration with my peers to achieve a common goal, and understanding the

connection between British history and literature.

One very important skill that I learned during the class was critical reading,

thinking, and writing. Before I started British literature and composition I had limited

critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. It was very hard for me to read a piece of

literature and then write a critical essay on it. For example, when I wrote the essay on

“Dulce et Decorum est”, I had an extremely hard time relating every thing to my thesis

and making comments to support the relationship of the evidence to the thesis. After

reading and analyzing more poems my critical reading and writing skills improved and I

decided to rewrite “Dulce et Decorum est”. All of

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Approximate Word count = 708
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)