Your Thoughts on Yourself in ENG 1101-LC05
You have now entered the 2/3rds mark of the course. What has been your experience in this class so far? Is it what you thought it would be? How do you feel about your performance so far?
Directions
Write two or three full paragraphs in response to your thoughts about your work in this class so far.
- What work or activities do you like the most in ENG 1101 and why do you like them?
- What work or activities do you like the least in ENG 1101 and what would you change about them?
- How has your thinking about who you are and what you want out of college changed this semester?
- How would you assess your own performance in ENG 1101? What are you doing the best? What do you still need to work on?
- If you had one piece of advice for me, the instructor, what would it be?
Grading
This is class discussion work for our online course. Please post your response as a comment. These are due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. during the Week they are assigned, making this one is due 11/1/20. A complete response is worth up to 15 points.
My favorite assignment that I liked the most was the 40 paragraphs because it allowed me to learn more about myself. It allowed me to understand what was holding me back from being successful. It also allowed me to see my flaws in my writing. this helped me accept it. The assignment allowed me to see how unique I was compared to other girls. I liked this assignment because it challenged me to expand more on myself. My least favorite activities were the TED talks because I do not learn that way. I did not see a point in taking notes on the ted talks. I also did not like reading the long articles that I could not relate to. I would make the ted talks shorter and the articles shorter because I struggle to be able to sit down and focus on assignments that do not interest me.
My thinking about who I am has changed because I used to believe that ” I was not good at writing but I eventually learned that I can be good at writing if I tried. My wants for college has changed from just wanting to get college over with to wanting to experience college. I want to try to make the best of my college experience. I would assess my performance in ENG 1101 as poor because I was not able to manage my time correctly for this class and its assignments. I am currently taking the time out of my day to slowly do the work and catch up on all the different assignments. I am doing my best to catch up on the assignments. I still need to work on my time management skills because I know it is going to affect me in the long run. One piece of advice I’d give you is to keep doing what you’re doing because you’re an awesome professor.
here has been many assignments and every single one of them were a challenge but there was one that I really enjoyed a lot of. the first big assignment was to write 40 paragraphs in a good amount of time, it was challenging due to the fact that I was writing about myself. Had me thinking of things I wouldn’t think about. Some work that I liked the least was having to read and take notes on those long readings. There were good articles to read but it was a lot, it was expected to read a lot. I had told my self I was going to be on track and in the beginning I didn’t, I was on track doing my work. For half of the semester I realized that it can be done its just that i have to stop being lazy about it ad stop giving excuses or procrastinate to do it later. I’m doing my best on writing more I’ve gotten as much faster on typing as well and again something to fix is checking back and fixing my errors. I wouldn’t have any advice I enjoyed your class a lot if anything be strict with due dates and around the 12th week say you would accept late work.
1) My favorite work in English 1101 was one of our first assignments which was reading Anzduaâs story and writing notes about it. I think it was the fact that I was able to relate someone to her story. I also enjoyed writing about myself sometimes because it gave me the opportunity to think about myself and thatâs something I donât want to do a lot. 2) My least favorite thing in the class are the discussion questions. I donât know what I could change about them and I donât know I donât like them that much but it is what it is. 3) I donât think my thought of what I want out of college and what I think about me has changed throughout the semester. 4) I would grade myself a six out of 10 because I do try to do my best however it would drags me down is my procrastination. 5) my piece of information for you would be keep doing what youâre doing because youâre a good instructor and I have no other comments.
One thing that I really like about ENG 1101 is when we write about ourselves. I have always actually disliked talking about myself because whenever we had to, it was always the same topic. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What is your dream job? The sort of questions we have been writing about since third grade, and at some point, it becomes boring. I like having the opportunity to write about deeper things about myself. Topics that I really had to think about and even made me understand more about myself in the process of finding an answer to the question. It was doing one of these assignments that helped the change in the way I see myself and my college education. I started off the semester excited, but also a little unsure as to whether I would continue. I had people telling me that perhaps a college education was not the right way for me to go, and I was better off getting a job and saving up. While that thought lingered in my head the first couple of weeks of the semester, the more I analyzed myself, the more I realized that what I really wanted was to finish college, and that was what I was going to do.
One of the things I like the least in ENG 1101 is the amount of writing we have to do. Yes, the writing has helped me a lot, but I do wish we had not had to do that much writing. Perhaps if we had not done all that writing then I would not have learned as much as I did, so in a way I am grateful for all the writing we did, but the lazy part of me makes me wish I could have learned without all that writing. I remember the first assignment we did with ten paragraphs; I could not wrap my head around that because never in my life had I been expected to write more than 1 paragraph on the first day of class for English. I would say I started off the semester doing fairly well, my assignments were on time and I was doing all my work. However, halfway through the semester, my procrastinator-self made a comeback and I sort of fell apart. I can for sure do better when it comes to planning my time, and keeping up with my work, because I can see that when I do, I can get a lot of work done and not struggle all at once when I have a week to finish 20 missing assignments.
If I had one piece of advice for you as the instructor, is to never change. I have never had a teacher who was as upfront with me as you are, and that was sort of the push that as a student I needed to make sure I did not fall apart completely. You always get back to us quickly, and help us whenever we have any sort of question to make sure we are not confused and not a lot of professors do that. I have heard professors use the phrases, âYou should know this,â âI do not need to explain that,â and things like that towards their students, but you were always there to help us. Even if you gave us a lot of work, it was work that had a purpose, and it was not done without a purpose.
There are two activities that I enjoyed the best, which were when I had to write forty paragraphs and when I had to write a personal essay. I really enjoyed writing the forty paragraphs because I was writing about myself and writing about things that I liked, my problems, and general things about me. Even though it was a lot of writing, I feel like I got to write about something that I like and enjoy, making it a lot easier to do since I knew what to write about. To add on, I feel like when I was writing my forty paragraphs, I got to express who I am, which made me feel good, plus I felt that while writing these paragraphs, I really got to know who I am and explore who I am. Furthermore, I enjoyed writing the personal essay because I was free to write about anything that I wanted, but it had to be based on me. Besides, I like writing this essay because there was no exact thing or prompt that told me what I had to do while writing about me. It was up to me to write things about me that I wanted to write about. The thing that I didn’t like about this English class was the discussion questions because it was mainly about reading text and writing about them either it was a summary or an analysis that I had to make, which am not really good at and worse that sometimes I didnât really understand the text for me it was difficult to make a summary or analysis about the text. Moreover, I would sometimes get bored reading the text, making it even more difficult to write about the text. Although I know that the texts arenât for me to like, they are for me to learn something out of it. The two things that I would change are that the text would be interesting and would call our attention while also being informative and for us to learn something out of the text. Finally, I would change to a text that is a bit easier to understand.
Many things had changed with how I think I am and what I wanted out of college this semester. When I finally graduated from high school, I was happy because I was getting closer to my goal: to graduate with a degree in hospitality management and do the best in my first semester of college. At the beginning of this semester, I was doing so good I had a plan for everything and scheduled what assignments I was going to do first, so I donât fall behind with assignments, but obstacles came my way, which made me struggle and concentrate on my school work however am trying to be positive and get back to being the person that I was earlier this semester. The things that I wanted out of this semester changed because I’m not only thinking about that out of this semester I’m getting out of my way courses needed to get one step closer to getting my degree but the knowledge and the information that am gaining which will help me out in the future as a person and for a future job.
I feel like that in this class, I am doing an okay job because I started off doing all my assignments, putting all my effort into the assignments. Still, some of the assignments for me were difficult, not that I didnât understand what to write but how I would begin an assignment. I feel like what I am doing my best in is the assignments based on me and the summaries that I do. Still, I need work on writing analysis because I am not very good at getting straight to the point, in my opinion, plus that I tend to go around the topic and never talking about what is told to write about. The only advice that I would have for you, professor, is to give feedback on the assignments we turn in because that way, one knows what we did wrong and donât make the same mistake again.
My most enjoyable assignment in ENG 1101 would be the 40 paragraphs because it was very straight forward and since we had questions we could chose from it made it a whole lot easier to write about. I chose that one because as much as I like to write the essays sometimes I do feel like something is missing but when it came to the 40 paragraphs I was aware that I did everything correct. I also liked the discussion questions because it allows me to refer back to the text that I just read and make connection to my ideas. The work I like least is the readings for the discussion questions because the readings tend to be really long and that’s pretty much one of my weaknesses.
My thinking about who I am and what I want after college has changed a lot within the past 3 months. At first I was scared of actually experiencing going to college and was nervous because it was going to be a big change in the environment but after I started I realized that I could get through it. In the beginning of the semester I thought I didn’t have what it took to be a student and felt like I was going to easily fall behind because everything was online but now I have realized how much work Ive put into to school in order to better my own education. Last but not least I learned to be more organized when it came to my time management skills which was something I was always scared about because I didn’t want to fall behind but now Im more aware of steps I have to take part in in order to stay on task. Therefore I feel like the thought that I had on myself before college has changed because I have proved my own expectations and i’m doing better than expected which is exactly what I wanted for myself.
When it comes to assessing my own work I think Im doing pretty good with the work load but at the same time I want to organize myself in a way where I can do better and not feel like time is forever ticking. Personally I believe I’m doing best in the discussion questions but recently I have doubted my answers so I hope I did better than expected. One thing I still need help with would be my essays because there are times where I feel like my work is okay instead of good and there are situations where I feel like I left something out. If I had one piece of advice for you I would suggest to keep us updated with our grades for our essays since those are the ones that count the most and this feedback could always help us improve in our writing for future assignments.
The work I liked the most in this class was the personal inventory 40 paragraphs. Although it was a lot of writing I enjoyed it because I was able to write about all the things I value and like. I was also able to show the reader the type of person I am. I am a person who does not like writing because it puts a lot of pressure on me because I feel like every sentence and paragraphs needs to be perfect. Also, writing takes up a lot of time and it gets tiring when you run out of ideas but for this assignment, I knew everything I wanted to talk about so it made things much more easier. When I know the topics very well I can write all about it without struggling. This assignment challenged my writing and made me feel very confident. Also, this assignment helped me write quicker and was like a speed challenge. The work I liked the least was the discussion questions. The discussion questions were my least favorite because I don’t like reading so when I have to read many texts, I get bored and get stuck on what to write about. Even though the discussion questions were not hard, I just never felt like doing them. Also, reading a text and then having to answer questions is something I don’t enjoy doing. Whenever I am answering questions about a text, I feel like I miss important information which makes me feel like I did not do so good on answering the questions. I wouldn’t really change anything, I would just change making the text a little more interesting and easy to read. In addition, my least favorite assignments are essays. Essays also takes up a lot of time and sometimes essay topics don’t feel relevant.
After graduating high school, I always had the mindset that I am going to try my best the first year of college and work hard to reach my goals but because of the pandemic, things became much more difficult for me. I started to struggle with completing work on time and procrastination hit me very hard. Having online classes, makes me not want to do anything because I am home and all I wanna do is relax and not worry about work. This class so far has boosted my confidence and makes me feel much better in my writing. I feel like I am free to write about the stuff I want to write about which makes things better for me. I am doing well on completing all homework but, I need to improve on my procrastination and turning in the work on time. College is not an easy but I am glad I work hard and I don’t give up. One advice I would give the instructor is to give more feedback to the students after they turn in work and also tell them when they are on the edge of failing and what they can improve on to pass the course.
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My experience in English classes has been different due to the current situation (pandemic). The virtual classes have helped me to keep abreast of the requirements of the English course. What I would not change, would be the recordings since I can see them at any time and refresh my memory or doubt about the class that day. I would recommend to the teacher to keep this method, since it has worked for me to carry out projects such as the Personal Inventory. The work that I liked and challenged me as a writer was to complete the forty paragraphs because it has been more than I ever thought to write, this assignment has helped me to recognize the strengths and weaknesses that I have to improve as a student and as a person.
I like that the teacher gives us advice and tips on the development of the projects and assignments, also the teacher extends to explain any questions, so I would advise that the teacher keep this method but personalized for each student, I mean that although we are many students, I would like the teacher to give us some advice on how to improve, for example with readings aimed at the student’s difficulties, since each student is different and has different writing skills. As a student, I feel capable of doing more, although it is only the first semester, I will be able to learn much more to be a good writer.
My most enjoyable activities in ENG 1101 is the discussions. I enjoy reading the text you provided. My favorite was the chapter “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” I enjoyed reading her life experience because I’ve seen others go through this before. Answering the discussion question was easy for me, but it became difficult having to extend my thinking in an essay. However, I did manage to get something written which I’m proud of. After rereading my assignment, I realized that I learned a lot from Gloria Anzaldua. Not just about culture, but about building self-confidence and determination. I also found that I must allow my mind to flow when writing.
I’d say my least favorite assignment would be the essays in general. This is my big downfall because I’m so used to perfection, that it actually takes up too much time and I don’t finish my essays. I also doubt my skill of writing when I know I’m very capable of completing my assignments, just not within the time frames and so constant. I’m a student that needs that extra time or one on one to actually be able to focus and understand an assignment. I didn’t enjoy the self-inventory assignment due to the fact that I lack the skill of self-description. It bothers me because your choice of questions were exciting and I just didn’t know to answer them.
I graduated high school with the mind set that I wasn’t ready for college. Starting the semester was fine, but as the weeks went by, I began to lose hope for myself. I believe this thought has led me to the wrong path and I’m highly disappointed in my performance. So far this semester, I have only been showing my great academic skills to some classes while I fail to show my true self to others. I’m not sure what I can do to fix that at this point, maybe its too late. I’m just hoping that I’m able to at least past at this time in the semester. It is hard for me to say focused because I’m used to in class learning and I’m really trying my best to complete all back assignments that I have. I’ve never been the student to fail so, that will never be in my dictionary. I must do great and I work my hardest to do so no matter my struggle.
P.S. I sent an email a few weeks back, didn’t get a response, not sure if you got it.
The first assignment I enjoyed doing in this class is writing the Self- Inventory assignment. I like this assignment because it made me acknowledge things that I love, dislike or value. This assignment also challenged my written speed for the better, which I need to become a better college student. The second assignment I enjoyed doing is the informal essay of âHow to tame a wild tongueâ. I enjoyed writing this assignment because I learned a lot of the different dialects of Spanish that I didnât know existed and the problems all Spanish individuals have with other fellow Spaniards in speaking. This assignment also gives me the opportunity to write about my experience with the difference in dialects of the English language in the Caribbean. The work I least like from this class is the reading of long fine written stories because my eyes are very bad while reading them and zooming in takes too much time. My eyes are strained to the fact that I soon need glasses to see better. I would advice that there will be less long fine written articles or just a article with a big font size.
I notice that I am being more confident in myself about making my own decisions which makes this semester a little easier for me to handle. I offend think I would struggle in college because I am always in my head but this class has thought me to be free and careful in myself while writing. I have to work on paying more attention to my grammar and spelling of words. I figure I need more tutoring in both my writing and math skills. I always think I can do better on my own but help from another would make me even better. I am doing my best in free writing than having an anxiety attack on figuring out what to write. I am so happy I have learned the term of reflective writing or I wouldnât be this calm writing this reflection. The one advice I would give to the instructor is to give the student a feedback after grading their work. Although sometimes I donât like feedback but it makes me do better in a future assignment.