final reflection

Ciarra Cook

English 102-59

Instructor Hem Paudel

22 April 2015

Final Reflection

Question one: What did you learn from this course? List at least three things and explain.

            This semester was my second semester in college and I expected English 102 to be much more difficult than English 101, but it all honesty 101 gave you everything you would need to get through 102. I learned from this course many different things. The first thing that stood out the most to me would be how to correctly write an IMRaD. I’ll be honest, I have never even heard of that before this class. Looking at the examples scared me because it just seemed so complicated. The second thing I learned from English 102 was learning about the purpose of writings. An example was in our first essay was how writing in our field of interest effected something, well now I see it as every piece of writing is for something else. Either to entertain, let readers be aware, a grade, etc. The third thing I learned for this course that stuck out to me would be the importance of your information in a research paper. In my research paper it took me forever to find actual good information that I felt helped form my essay into a better piece of work.

Question Two: What aspects of this course helped you learn?

My favorite thing about this class that helped me learn was definitely the conferences. I feel like most people usually need one on one to fully understand what should be done or what they could do better.  I am one of those people, therefore being able to come to the conference and speak to you about my paper and get your opinion really gave me a better view. Also, I feel like the group discussions were very helpful. Being able to hear others opinions as well as having others hear yours is always beneficial in being able to recognize and remember something easier.

Question Three: What aspects of this course were less successful in helping you learn? How might this course be improved?

            Readings are always not as helpful. I feel like when you are having a class reading that you aren’t reading it to learn from it, you are reading it because it was assigned so then it turns to homework which is always not as interesting. I would recommend modern videos about the subject being learned about. Maybe something to start out with to get everyone’s attention and entertain at the beginning of the class so that everyone is fully interested afterwards.

Question Four: Reflect on your own performance and contributions to this class.

            Honestly, English has always been one of my favorite subjects and has always been one of the classes I really loved being in. I am very disappointed with my work in this class because I felt like my papers weren’t what they could have been and that I should have done a lot better. I enjoy writing and I love being able to learn about a topic then write about it, therefore I am upset with myself for not taking more time for it. I did learn a lot about the class and if I get the chance to take it again and take more time to do everything better then I will take the opportunity to do so.

Question Five: Which major assignment did you find most useful and why?

            I found that our first major assignment was most useful. The first assignment was just more fun to write about because it was about what I was interested in (nursing). Therefore I wasn’t just writing a paper for my English class, I was writing a paper and learning more about my future career.

 

Question Six: Which major assignment or which aspect was most challenging and why?

            It would have to be a tie between the IMRaD and the research paper for me. The IMRaD was easy but then hard because it was very difficult not to put your own input into it and I was constantly overthinking everything about it. And then there was the research paper, which was difficult because organizing all the data I found then trying to find data that wasn’t just a repeat of the data before to put into my paper was difficult. I wanted to make sure everything I found was accurate and up to date and of course everything on the internet is mixed in, so you really had to sort through everything to actually find a good article to back your thesis up.

Question Seven: What did you think about the conferences? How helpful were they? How do you think we can make them even more helpful? If you did not find them useful, why? Explain suggestions to make them better..

            I think the conferences were a great idea. Like I said before most people need one on one to better understand most things. I felt as if they really helped me a lot to better understand how to make my paper better. I cannot think of any other way to make them anymore helpful, but I think they were a great idea. I just wish we didn’t have those snow days so that we could have had conferences for the research paper.