ENG 101E Reflection

Writing has never been a subject I am best at because I dislike writing because there are a lot of rules to it. ENG 101E class helped made me understand all of those rules. It has helped me in a variety of ways in gaining and sharpening skills in writing. This class taught me how to think critically by analyzing a topic from all sides. Additionally, we learned a lot about the different styles of writing. For instance, informal and formal writing, compare and contrast, and rhetorical analysis. Every essay comes with the MLA format, with signal phrases, quotations marks, and parenthetical citations. This information is very relevant to any paper I will write for a class in the future. I had never before been taught the correct way to do this. The compilation of knowledge this class has given me.
I learned how to peer edit and make changes. This outlet allowed for a better thinking process. Things have become simpler now because I do not have to go through the struggle of how things are done or if I am confused about how I am supposed to do what I am assigned to do.
We learned the proper ways to both summarize and cite a piece. The summarizing will help me a lot in college with taking notes. The citations will help me when I have to write a paper that contains outside sources. I learned how to successfully paraphrase or summarize articles and stories. I would only have to include transitions, which I also learned, and maybe a few more sentences to make my ideas connect properly and flow