English 101 Reflective Report

This semester in English 101 has been very demanding for me. In previous years, I generally completed my writing assignments with ease and without having to put much thought or effort into them, but this year, I was required to work for many hours on each of my papers and to proofread them many times in order to receive a good grade. For example, I learned that if I wanted to reach my audience, I had to organize my paper in such a way that everyone could easily understand the organization and the logic behind my ideas. Furthermore, for the first time in my high school career, I welcomed and appreciated the feedback of my peers as a tool that could help with the drafting of my academic papers. I chose to examine three articles from my portfolio
For example, creating research questions and using them as a guide for my research throughout the writing of the research paper helped me stay focused while doing my research, and because I had to find sources of information that answered my research questions, my research questions also helped me determine whether a source was directly relevant to my topic. Furthermore, being required to submit annotated bibliographies each week forced and motivated me to carefully examine scholarly sources for credibility and allowed me to begin to gather supporting evidence and formulate claims for the thesis of my research paper ahead of time. Moreover, creating and submitting the outline of the research paper allowed me to carefully examine the effectiveness of the organization of my claims for my research paper and allowed me to plan the flow and the structure of my research paper in order to effectively present my ideas on the topic to my readers. During the actual drafting of my research paper, I was able to use the outline as my guide for writing the paper and to use the annotated bibliographies to quickly refer to the information that I had gathered from my sources without having to reread my sources. Consequently, writing the final draft of this research paper was more effortless than writing the final draft of any of the previous papers because I had already familiarized myself with the information and the structure that I was going to implement into my research paper. Overall, writing this research paper helped me learn how to plan a research paper ahead of time and how to manage time while drafting a research