Adam Bonilla 

ENG 160

Ms. Cavallucci 

11 December 2022

 

Dear Reader,

 

I would like to discuss my experience in the class and the new methods of learning I have been taught and presented throughout this semester. In this course, I was not expecting too much. When I was in high school I took both AP seminars and Research so I am very familiar with writing long-paged essays and using reliable sources to help prove a point or discuss them in my essay. I also felt that my strongest subject in school was English. With writing, I feel great because it allows me to show off my creativity and thought process and put it on paper because with different classes I do not have much of an opportunity to do so. I also feel very confident in my writing because I have done so much writing throughout my education.

My attitude towards writing has changed so much while in college. Usually, I will write short sentences and not put many details into writing. In college, I changed my mindset because in order for me to understand certain materials I would need to put more thought and details. Another way my attitude towards writing changed is that I would look over more of my work and try to add more details or cut some filler words so that I can make my writing more organized and easier to read. Also, looking for resources for writing has improved. My attitude has changed while looking for resources. I would look for any resource to validate my point, but I realize that is a horrible way to structure my essay. I would use more recent and reliable sources in my writing to ensure that my writing can be seen as reliable and well-organized.

My writing process has changed dramatically for the better and I would like to share more about this. Instructor feedback has helped me so much this past semester before I would not look back on my paper because I always had good grades so I did not bother because my writing was already good so I did not seek improvement and did not use feedback as much as I would like to. While in college I took the feedback and improved my paper which helped me so much and I will continue to use this feedback to make my writing better and learn from my mistakes. I also improved my grammar and punctuation for writing. I usually tend to look past them because with the technology we have today it would be automated so I did not worry too much. My thought process has changed from this because while reading my writing and papers I realized it was disorganized and hard to read because when I was reading out loud some sentences would sound off and the information I wanted to present would not show. Finally,

My conclusion paragraph also improved for the better because I noticed I would put a cliche at the end which was unnecessary and I would also add more details to my conclusion to make sure I finished off strong.

The paper in my portfolio which I feel was very successful was my personal narrative because I was talking about my experiences. My passion for the personal narrative made it easier for me to come up with an outline. I also was able to organize my essay into a story and flow really well. I put so much time and effort into my personal narrative to make sure that everything I wrote made sense and allowed a reader to feel my passion and experience about my topic. My personal narrative made me feel confident in my writing since it was the first paper I had to write for college. I wanted to give a strong first impression. I did everything I could so that for my later papers I want to be better than the last.    

The revision I would like to make to my paper is to add more information because I had a limit of words so I felt that I did not have a word limit. I can add much more information which can make my essay more detailed and allow me to show how much knowledge I would like to showcase about certain topics. I also would like to revise some resources because I would want to add more to make more of a point because the more evidence you have it may be very beneficial to explain my reasoning.

An assignment that was very beneficial to me was the profile assessment. We wrote about someone who we look up to and it gave me a chance to work on my interview skills. It also made me appreciate the person I wrote about because I had so many details and information that I was able to display. This assignment was different from the others and a bit challenging, but this allowed me to improve my writing which made me better because at the beginning I was very confused. In the end, I was very confident in what I wrote about so I feel very proud.

Overall, I grew so much throughout this semester that I would like to highlight what I felt about my own writing and what I need to improve on. My convention is a strength I would like to talk about. I did not know much about MLA format and organizing an essay. The more papers I wrote allowed me to work on these skills and looking back it made my papers well organized and easier to read so that skill I picked up is very useful for me. A strength I also picked up is the development of ideas. I was able to use evidence to help present my topic or point in my writing. This allowed me to think more about my paper and improved my writing. Also, my explanation was clear and concise, this showed that I knew a lot about my topic and made it easiest for the reader to understand. Also, there are some writing skills I would like to talk about that need improvement. I would like to focus more on tone and word choice. I felt that in my papers I would give off a different tone than I had in my head. I want to work on this so that when readers look at my paper they can see what tone I am trying to achieve.

I am ready to move on to/ENG170 because I learned so much and the skills I picked up from ENG 160 will be useful for the papers I made in 170. I also believe that my formal writing is excellent and beneficial because I have experience with them. I also have written 20 paged research papers in the past with this course. This allows me to structure better research papers and learn new methods and skills that I want to use for my career. Overall, I am prepared to take the course ENG 170 because I had everything I need to succeed in that course 

 

Best wishes,

 

Adam Bonilla