M.+Reflection+Paper

As I look back on all of my old pieces of writings from this year, it is kind of hard to believe that was really me writing those papers. Normally I would have to sit in front of the computer screen for hours and try and write something. But, now I can just start typing with no worries. During this English course I have learned how to use commas right, to always start with a lead, and to have a voice in ones writing.

At the very beginning of the school year Mrs. Szymczak and Mrs. Tucei' would stand in front of the class room and talk over and over about how commas are needed in a sentence .They would also say that if there was no comma then it would be a run on sentence. For about a month we took comma test and learned about all the different ways to use them. At the time I was very nieve to what they were talking about because I never used commas unless I was using some kind of order. So even after they talked about commas I still did not use them. My papers would get marked up and points would be taken off, all because there were no commas in the paper. After a while I would just start putting commas everywhere and that’s when I learned about comma splice. All this new stuff to learn about and so little time is all I would say in my head. By the time I wrote the persuasive essay, I knew exactly what to do. There were no comma errors and I was really proud of myself. From then on I used my commas right and was not longer lost.

Starting a paper was one of the hardest things to understand because I always thought that one was supposed to start a paper with the thesis. Come to find out that was all wrong. Past years that is all my teachers taught me, but if I would have known it was wrong then I would have never done that. At the beginning of the year I took my SAT and when I wrote my paper I started with the thesis. It was one of the worst papers I ever wrote, but if I would have learned all of this stuff then I would have done so much better. I compared that essay to my other entire essay and they all had great leads except for that one. It made me happy to know that I accomplished one of my main goals in 11th grade. I hope that my two teacher see the improvement of my leads at I write them.

In all of my old paper my voice was very generic and it would be easy to find out exactly how my paper would start and end. Now I write with more emotion and one would know that it was me writing. I am a very emotional individual and it is very hard for me to write what I am thinking. There were only a few pieces of writings that I could truly write what I was thinking or even what I had been through. Writing this down made me get a lot of it off my chest and I actually had a place to put my anger and aggression. The two pieces of writing that I put my emotion in was the Narrative essay and theme for English ll.

During this past year I have learned a lot in English and I have progressed in all my paper. People may say that I have not grown enough and that my paper may suck, but there is always room for improvement and just know that I get better every time I write a paper. During this English course I have learned how to use commas right, to always start with a lead, and to have a voice in ones writing.