Mid-semester reflection paper Mary Martin

I believe that I have come a far way through this semester, with less procrastination and better grades then my last English class in college. I realized that I need to be able to write about something that sparks my interest and that's what I really enjoy, writing about something that intrigues me. This semester one of my personal goals was to not procrastinate and work hard and get good grades through out every class and so far my goal is being reached. I realized a lot of preparation goes into a good paper and it can not be done as a last minute thing. I learned things such as rhetoric and certain aspects of grammar that I did not know/understand before. I am a pretty strong writer but sometimes I get off track and have made grammar errors, I have learned to look through my papers more carefully, with each new draft to make improvision’s to better my writing. I believed that this semester was going to be harder then the last because the higher the class the higher the difficulty; but I soon realized with effort and perseverance comes the reward of becoming a better writer and reader.
I learned how to analyze my papers and make sure how to target my audience and make my paper easy to read and enjoyable for other's to read. How to make a boring story come alive and how to put it all together to have a nice finished piece of work. I learned how to look at other's paper and give constructive critiquing, to help improve their paper without telling them that something was worthless. I learned how to listen to someone read something out loud and pick up mistakes and how to replace poor vocab with more suitable words. I learned how to listen to heading meaning 's in an author's paper and hidden innuendoes. How some things affect our culture and other's do not. I believe that I have grow in my intellect a little more and more with each passing assignment and I believe that I have grown a lot since the beginning of the semester.



My five goals for the remains of the semester
1) make a more reliable and useful schedule for myself
2) make sure to look at all angles of a paper to find mistakes
3) take more time in writing my paper
4) have some one help me review my work and see if I made ant mistakes
5) Try to make my writing stronger