Diagnostic Essay
Fall
2013
ENGL 1301-107
Elvia Rosales My Expectations At the age of 18 years of life, in the year 2013, life presents me a new experience called: University. It is a new and great challenge, which will have as primary aim to become someone in life. University is the only place in the world where I will truly have the opportunity to realize myself on a professional way. In my case, Texas A&M International University will be my place where I will have the opportunity of learning to think and live. University is made up of a wide variety of subjects and classes, although each one of them is important, the English subject is fundamental. As a first grade college student, being this the first English class that I will have to take I am excited; I come with a great expectation of leaving behind my bad writing experiences; although a kind of weakness opaque my writing strengths I am going to take full advantage of each and every concept learn during the English 1301 class. First of all, I come with a great expectation of leaving behind my writing experiences presented in my lasts English classes. The memory of the first official essay that I wrote in life is enormously disturbing. I do not remember very well the date but it is truly an experience that will always be impossible to forget. It all started when the professor assigned to each one of us a topic from which we had to develop an essay. I have to mention that the word “plagiarism” was not in my vocabulary, so I immediately went into the site of lazy people called “Wikipedia” and started to copy and paste all the useful information that I found. That way my worked was finished in less than 10 minutes. As well, it was no longer necessary to put attention to the professor essay explanation. Consequently, the teacher did not even take ten seconds to detect my cheat when she was grading my work. After a horrible F in my grade and after a great shame in front of everyone in my class, I realized that the lessons that
2013
ENGL 1301-107
Elvia Rosales My Expectations At the age of 18 years of life, in the year 2013, life presents me a new experience called: University. It is a new and great challenge, which will have as primary aim to become someone in life. University is the only place in the world where I will truly have the opportunity to realize myself on a professional way. In my case, Texas A&M International University will be my place where I will have the opportunity of learning to think and live. University is made up of a wide variety of subjects and classes, although each one of them is important, the English subject is fundamental. As a first grade college student, being this the first English class that I will have to take I am excited; I come with a great expectation of leaving behind my bad writing experiences; although a kind of weakness opaque my writing strengths I am going to take full advantage of each and every concept learn during the English 1301 class. First of all, I come with a great expectation of leaving behind my writing experiences presented in my lasts English classes. The memory of the first official essay that I wrote in life is enormously disturbing. I do not remember very well the date but it is truly an experience that will always be impossible to forget. It all started when the professor assigned to each one of us a topic from which we had to develop an essay. I have to mention that the word “plagiarism” was not in my vocabulary, so I immediately went into the site of lazy people called “Wikipedia” and started to copy and paste all the useful information that I found. That way my worked was finished in less than 10 minutes. As well, it was no longer necessary to put attention to the professor essay explanation. Consequently, the teacher did not even take ten seconds to detect my cheat when she was grading my work. After a horrible F in my grade and after a great shame in front of everyone in my class, I realized that the lessons that