Reflective Essay

“No! It cannot be over…”
Reflecting Progress in Work and 2009



All through this year, I can honestly say that I have become partially experience in the English language and that I have had the opportunity to actually see my faults and get the chance to work on them. Moreover, I improved in more places as well. To be specific, as a reader, I have learned to compose my ideas in my head, yet; in most instances, I seem to stumble in effort to express them more clearly in my speech as well as writing it on paper. During the most part of my work in the class, I have been often been falling short being clear in my arguments as well as forming a structured or extensive explanation that I can be satisfied with. On the bright side, I also note my growing participation in the discussions on the books that we have read over the year. I always try to express my observations of the chapters that I have to see if anyone seen that as well, though I often don’t use the right words or vocabulary to convey it as much as I think so. I try I often make no sense at what I am trying to say about the book as a whole. One of my problems that usually appear in my papers is my lack of control over my words. I constantly have the idea that one word has the same meaning that I am trying to put in one context, in that result, that seems to hurt my work more than it helps it. For example, in one of my earlier boot camp essays wherein I had to focus on the topic of point of view with William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” that was one my earlier signs of my lack of work ethic and awful writing ability. One thing I can say that hindered my efforts is the fact that I like to do my work in the last minute, pass it in, and wait for the grade. For that reason, I was never proud of my first impression in the class and in result, I was too nervous to try asking for any help. In addition, when I began the introduction, I always seemed to get off topic and write a hypothetical paragraph in what I thought was one convention to do before going into the whole subject of an essay, to as well as when I stopped before or during I finish my conclusion.

In retrospect, to most of the essays and other texts that I have written, my strongest suit was having the main theme of the certain text that I was analyzing, although I did have a hard time trying to organize it into a decent essay. In the course of the class, my strengths included my work on poetry analysis as well as my adequate knowledge in literary devices such as tone, symbolism and language. The poems that we studies throughout the school term really was fun, especially when I get to scan the paper for rhetorical devices as well as literary devices. Throughout the year, my strengths included looking into certain books, novel, plays, and poems and finding said tools in the papers as well as allusions and imagery in the narratives and texts. In my opinion, such books and short stories we covered in class such as Jane Eyre, Wide Sargossa Sea, Greasy Lake, really were the stories that I really thrived in. In addition, the whole year as a whole has made me exercise the rule of what to put on paper. I cannot lie and say I did not learn anything in this class that I already knew. This has been a partial advantage towards my overall writing skills and how I have had the opportunity to access books that I never thought I could read. In conclusion, though this class has helped me sharpen my discipline in the English language, I still have a long way to go in the subject and I will try to learn as much as I can from these mistakes in the future. Heaven knows that I need it when I’m off to school.