English Midterm
With the past few weeks, I can honestly say that this English 101 course has helped me so much already. I used to have trouble with being able to think clearly and I also had trouble with being able to write in a way in which my reader would be able to understand where I'm coming form. Now, I can think with more clarity, and I can also write with more clarity. With the Daily Journal, the two essay papers, the exercises, the web postings and reading the textbook, I have gained a lot of knowledge that I didn't already have. The Daily Writing Journal was a good experience for me. I haven't written in my own personal journal for two years and I wanted to get back into it. With writing for this class, it has helped me get back into the mood of writing in a journal. From my daily writing journals, I have learned that writing can be used as therapy. I say that because, when I wrote on some of these days, I was angry, depressed, or happy. For the angry and depressed days that I experienced, I wrote what was going on through my mind. I wrote what I was feeling, what caused me to feel that way, and so forth. When I started writing a specific entry, I would feel depressed, or I would be filled with hate, but towards the end of
The Study Guide itself was just so elementary. The exercises were just going over the Videos I watched, and going over what was read in the book. Some of the short stories and essays that I have read in our textbook so far, have helped me to understand this world of ours far more than I did before. I learned that I shouldn't take another online course with having the knowledge that my computer will crash on me whether I like it or not. I have been having sophisticated conversations with my friends instead of having those regular, friendly-like conversations where we would have used words that we haven't used since middle school. It made me think a lot more of our countries roots, and our countries so-called "culture". It takes a lot of work, energy, and thinking as well. I also could never write a rough draft because when I type, I always go over what I have written so far, and delete whatever I think I don't need as I type. It is so much easier for me to type this way, otherwise I get stuck on a paragraph and never get past it, and in that process, I also lose a lot of information that I thought of jotting down. I didn't even think about everyone in America as an immigrant, even whites, till I read this essay. It may crash on me, and I won't be able to take the whole class. I have been thinking more intellectually than usual. I actually had a lot of fun finding out that there are people that don't necessarily agree with a known topic, even though it has been scientifically proven, such as the topic titled "Thoughts About Racism in the USA.
Common topics in this essay:
Writing Journal,
Racism USA,
American Life,
Study Guide,
,
Marin America,
Writer's Exchange,
Sex Marriagesetc,
Daily Journal,
Peter Marin,
english 101,
study guide,
write rough draft,
start typing,
essay american,
racism usa,
gained knowledge,
peter marin,
didn't learn,
writing journal,
daily writing,
|
Acceptance Essays
