1. What have you learned about yourself as a reader, writer, and scholar. 

What I have learned about myself as a reader is I’ve become a better listener. I never thought about how reading correlates to listening to a person talking to me or having an engaging conversation. I realized the lack of focus I have when I’m reading or when I’m talking about something that does not interest me. Reading is harder than expected and for those who read all the time, I get where they’re coming from on how it plays like a movie inside their head. I’ve portrayed it like this, books make your brain do the literal work for you to map out and imagine the whole scene. While movies or films show you the story right in front of you and there is no thinking involved. Reading is almost like tackling a math problem step by step, and that’s where I excel at. Tackling a book chapter by chapter was very fun when I re-read Orlando by Virginia Woolf for like the third time. I started listening to the author more, how she styled the writing in the book, the tone, and why the characters had specific personalities.  Improving my reading skills has been a huge accomplishment for me. Thus increasing my confidence to have better and longer conversations with people. I’ve noticed that I have been having more conversations at work with customers, and that’s something I wouldn’t do before, I would pick too low and no one could hear me because of my mask. My goal is to keep o reading and familiarize myself with my inner voice and be more attentive to the small details of literature.

Realizing I was a writer, in my way was a major realization for me. I wouldn’t validate my writing in my texts or my writing in many of my daily activities. I’ve learned that it’s really hard for me to write all my thoughts on paper and I shouldn’t let this fear that sometimes overcomes me in my writing. Writing comes spontaneously to me when I am typing on my laptop with no intention of sharing it with anyone else. The moment when I decide to write something for school, my writing loses its guts and splatters all over the screen. I had this fear of judgment, which I no longer have. I realized that the only person who should feel validated in my writing is myself. After editing it like a hundred times then I will know it’s readable and personal.  Something I have also discovered is that I write better when listening to music because it helps me feel emotional, any type of emotion from sad to happy or hype. I have now developed a checklist of things to check before turning in a paper. Writing comes with practice, and when you keep on writing I feel like things become easier when it comes to grammar or catching the small mistakes I  would tend to make, or possibly making new mistakes and overcoming the comma slices I cant seem to get rid of.  Writing has helped me understand myself, and uncover many of my curiosities, for example, the research project from unit two, it had opened a curiosity I had in the back of my mind. Something that I would like to continue improving on during my college years and further on would be the reduction of my words, for example by saying a lot with a minimal amount of words. May this class be the as to all of my writing classes yet to come.

This is my first semester of college, so I have learned a lot about myself as a scholar and practically seen a little bit of what’s far into the shoreline.  College is really up to oneself, I have learned that here is where I have to step up my studying game. I have noticed that I have a hard time starting things, but my goal is to always overcome procrastination in any subject. The organization of time is so essential in college.  I think reality hit me after I had a meeting with my advisor while talking about my future classes. Adult conversations are scary and they are even more intimidating when your professor still has to correct your emails when communicating, so what is why I have taken it upon myself to improve my reading and writing to become a better scholar.  Possibly even undertaking a new learning style, maybe there’s a better learning style out there for me than the way I’m teaching myself right now. By creating a study schedule and a calendar, many successful people have a whole plan for their lives, and I would also like to have the opportunity of being so organized with my time that I can do a lot of study during the day. I can maintain a good schedule being a student, my social life, being at work, and some activities and hobbies that I enjoy.  The last thing I want to say about being a scholar this semester is, what a  privilege it has been learning inside a classroom and being a part of a class as a whole. Remote learning is not something hard for me but being inna classroom is much more enjoyable to learn.

       2. How will you be able to use what you have learned this term and transfer that knowledge to other writing situations—either in college or in your community?

I believe that English is the foundation of all subjects and classes in education, I can apply what I have learned from this term to all my English classes after all this is English1101. I have learned so much more in my other classes as well, with handing things on time, and proving to the professors what they want to receive, via work.

  • In my other writing during my college. years and further into my education
  • How to judge my writing and my thinking
  • Believing in my writing as its persona.

  3. How would you compare/contrast work you did early in the semester to now?

To compare and contrast my work has been stable in my opinion. I don’t think my work has progressed which is the downside of my opinion, but I also know that my work has not become worse because the semester is ending. I feel like my research has improved because of this class, as well as my annotations to a writing piece.

 4. What was your favorite/least favorite assignment and why?

My least favorite assignment was the research paper which was unit two. I have written a science research paper that is not quite different from an English one. I was quite disappointed to find some mistakes that I thought I had mastered a while back. My grammar needs to be improved immensely and that paper just called me out on that.