Bonnie Stevenson

Prof. Calhoun

ENG 1011

December 10, 2019

Reflective Letter

Before taking this class I thought I was a pretty decent writer but I never really knew

where or how to get started. I also had issues with over-explaining or rambling. Throughout this

course, I learned easy and effective ways to help me get started on writing a paper. I also picked

up some better typing skills and learned how to write essays quicker. For my writing itself, I

learned better ways to support my claims and set them up, the peer feedback helped me to realize

how other people saw my essays and not just my own eyes. For most assignments, I think I did

fairly well but I think my challenges for most were either coming up with my main topic or

finding good support for them. Finding support for my claims has always been kind of a struggle

for me and I couldn’t tell you why. I think the thing I liked best about my assignments are that

even though I thought some of them were really bad I ended up getting good grades n all of them

which really helped me to become a stronger and more confident writer. If I had to describe the

process for each paper from beginning to end it would have to be, messy. Honestly, when

starting a paper and just picking out random ideas, I sort through those to get my topics. Form

there I would write down important things I feel as if I should point out and pick three of those

for my bodies. Then here comes the longest and most dreadful part is finding support for each of

those points. From there I throw it all together into a jumble for the rough draft, wait for

feedback, then finally I polish it up. I think my most difficult essay would have to be the final

one, the argument one, it’s hard to write a paper arguing your side of the story while still
managing to keep it “balanced”. Feedback of course always helped me to improve my weaker

starting papers. Now if I had to ask myself if my writing process has changed, I think the answer

would have to be yes because before this I think I focused too much on unimportant things and it

took me way too long to write. I think to peer feedback surprised me about the course a little bit

because at first I was scared to judge other peoples writing and scared to let other people read my

own, but by the end of the course I found that the peer feedback is actually very helpful and in all

honesty, no one really cares if you are good at writing or not, everyone is just tiring to pass the

class, I kind of wish I knew that to start. I hope that the new ways and speed that I picked up in

writing will stick with me throughout the rest of my career because I know I will get much much

more work piled onto me and I will have to be able to finish the assignments well and in a timely

manor.