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Jazmin I. Chico

Professor C. Ditch

English 113A

09 May, 2017

Reflection

Throughout this insightful English course, I have come across many things when it comes

down to writing essays and understanding a variety of texts. At the start of my journey in English

113A I struggled eventfully with citing my sources, writing a good thesis that answers the

prompt clearly and being able to spot on my mistakes throughout my formatting. Being able to

face these challenges and learning how to address them made the past sixteen weeks in this

course a lot more easy then I thought it would have been. I did not understand how to be clear

and to the point using my evidences as I do now, but after learning and seeing what a big change

it is for me throughout my writing I comb through my writing and clearly point out where I need

a better argument or need to fix my citations. When looking back at my progression I essay I

noticed how I was lacking in with proper wording and how I could have made my prompt a lot

more clear compared to after revising and fixing it. In comparison to my progression II essay I

can clearly see that my citations were incorrect and that the evidences I was using to back up my

arguments were not clear enough nor did they fully connect back to my visual text.

Throughout the time I spent researching and going over how to begin and analyze

Progression I and II, I realized that drawing out an outline and understand what my topics were

all I needed to do was go step by step. Starting out with the topic, asking myself what the topic
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was and how I would present it within the prompt. Once I was able to clearly answer my prompt

then the next step was to find supporting evidences that would tie into my arguments and allow

me to ensure my readers would have a full understanding of what I would be writing about and

stating repeatedly throughout the passages to of the main argument. Once I had all the supporting

evidences then that is where examples and connections come in, with every example or quoted

reference I needed to make sure and double check I was citing and being clear and not repetitive

when trying to tie in the connections of my argument and the topic alone. Finally, when I had my

prompt clearly written out following an introduction of my supporting evidence, followed by

examples and connections throughout my body paragraphs I was ready to conclude and clearly

round up my essay with a concluding paragraph where I clearly restate my thesis in a different

wording and end with a simple but clear thought based on the topic.

I can say that overall I have a had a successful learning journey based on my

improvements and self- learning experiences. It has been very beneficial towards my education

and throughout this course because throughout not only this course in specific but in plenty of

others I have been taking this semester, knowing how to properly cite, introduce topics, and

clearly state and answer the prompt I was able to successfully write essays for my other classes

with using and learning these new skills. I also paid a visit to the Learning Resource Center

(LRC) throughout my writing process to ensure that I had a second pair of eyes looking over my

writing structures to double check my formatting throughout my body paragraphs and overall

MLA formatting. I have learned to have an open mindset to feedback from others including my

peers to be able to adjust to the rubrics given to follow and ensure that my writing for the

specific assignment is properly set and stone when it comes to following directions and writing a

well-structured essay.