I am usually not a very good at English, because of the fact that I don’t like to write very much. I also feel like I wasn’t good at writing. It didn’t come very easy to me, so that is why I didn’t like English. I had never been a member of a site where I had a blog and was able to write, so this was new to me. It was also new to me that I had to write a blog every day. It had been a few years that I took English and I wasn’t sure how I was going to make the deadline and come up with 750 words. I think I surprised myself, because I actually enjoyed writing every day. It was time to myself where I could reflect on certain times in my life. I liked being assigned what to write, but it being about something that happened to me in me life and not about something that happened several hundred years ago to other people in biographies and research papers. I was dreading having a summer class and it being English, but I think it turned out in a positive way and I really learned a lot that will help me in other classes.
We were to read a short story every day and then respond to questions about the story. I was thinking we would get easy questions and be able to answer them in just a few short words. I was definitely wrong about this one. The questions really made me think about what was going on in the story and made me think outside of the box. It would take me a long time to think of answers to the questions and it was tough for me in the beginning. After some time and practicing reading and writing every day, I think I was able to improve and think of the answers right away. I didn’t think I would learn so much over an online class to tell the truth, but this class made me think in ways I hadn’t thought in a long time.
After reading and completing the questions about the story I would then being brainstorming for the essay that we were assigned. Again, I liked how the essay was to be about ourselves and something that happened in our life. I was able to write from my own personal experiences, but also tie it into what the reading was about that day. To begin brainstorming, I would print out the worksheet if it was given and I would start to write down my ideas. I would think of anything that would come to my mind about the topic and start to make a spider web like drawing. More ideas would pour out of my mind and I could elaborate on the subject. After I had a few ideas, I would pick the one that I could write more about and begin to write my essay. It was so nice and easy to be able to write about something that meant a lot to me. When I was writing about my friends and family, all my thoughts and emotions would come out in my writing. I felt so laid back and I didn’t mind having to write a lot, because it was fun writing about the things I love. I think the readers would appreciate reading an essay that had thought and emotion in the writing, I know I would. In high school, I was always assigned books that I wasn’t able to understand and given writing topics that I couldn’t relate to, so I hated English classes. I think that was why I was dreading having this class and especially because it was an online class. I tried to stay open to new ideas and ways of writing and I actually enjoyed it.
When I was done writing I would then go back and revise. The notes on blackboard were of good help to me when I was looking over my essay. Like everyone else I read over my mistakes and I don’t catch any errors that I had in my paper. It was very helpful to have the notes on how to write effective paragraphs. It had been awhile that I had an English class and I needed to brush up on my skills. I would take a break from my writing to let my mind have a rest and then I would come back fresh and revise my essay. I found this to be very effective and I was able to catch some mistakes.
In all I liked having this class and I think I learned a lot. I normally don’t like writing, but the writing I was assigned for this class was fun and I was able to write about things that were important to me. I also enjoyed being able to see what my other classmates were writing. I liked being able to read and revise their essay to help me later on. I am glad I took this class and I will take what I learned from it and apply it to classes that I will take in the near future.
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