English 101 Reflection Essay

As my English 101 class comes to an end there are many valuable lessons we learned in this class. We learned how to respond to the author. We learned how to write in the They Say/I Say style, which I plan on using this style to write in most of my papers from now on. Another lesson we learned in this class was how to create a thesis with tension. The lessons I learned in English 101 will most likely be used again as I progress on with English 102 as well as the rest of my college career.
Responding to the author is what most of our papers were about. We read many college level material and were expected to write or respond based on what we had read. We either agreed, disagreed, or agreed and disagreed simultaneously. I liked this because most of the material we read was interesting and almost easy to write about. I liked giving my own opinion based on what we had read. An example of this would be when we read the article “The End of Forgetting” by Jeffrey Rosen. It was about how we live in a digital era and how difficult it is to forget what is posted on social media, even after we seem to “delete” it. We had to decide if we agreed, disagreed or agreed and
This style of writing was somewhat difficult for me, but once I got it, it was very easy for me to run with it. In this style of writing, the author explains what a group of people think about the writing, then they give their own opinion about it. I liked this because I love giving my own opinion and I think it is very useful in successfully writing a paper for a college classes. An example for this type of lesson we learned in English 101 was when we read “The Mind Is a Formidable Jailer” by Phillip Zimbardo. We read the article and gave our own opinion on what we thought about it. I personally liked this reading out of all the other essays we read in this class. I was hooked from the very