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My reflections learning in English 112

I remember starting my English composition II: Writing and Rhetoric ENG 112 -D04[28475] with professor Julia M. Rodas, thinking I didn’t have stories to write or share and wondered how I was going to pass the class. Writing papers has been one of my biggest fears as a student. As the class progressed, I opened my eyes to the possibilities I never knew about writing. The truth is many students, including myself, struggle with starting to write a word, or getting stuck in the middle without knowing the main point of the writing. In addition, I would have to say the thing I most struggled with was expressing what I was thinking, and expressing those thoughts onto paper in a way my teacher would understand my way of thinking. But as I continued to write those essays that consisted of hours of writing, I began to see a change in my writing, and my ability to express myself in an academic way that was easier for the teacher to understand. Add to this, some of the areas that I have improved the most have been organization, different forms of MLA format, and how to find and right use of different sources. Furthermore, this semester was very stressful. My stress revolved around school and family. Whether it was an essay, my personal issues and I also took care of my father and children. This caused a great deal of stress to my family and in particular stress in my life. Stress is something that everyone experiences, but mostly affects the performance of college students in negative ways. I experience change in being more irritable than normal and being more incapable of completing my assignments. Also, it was a problem to manage time effectively and distribute it to have balance. I have learned time management skills, the time management skill that I have developed has helped me in other classes. My grades are better because of my time management.

As I looked back on my English 112- D04 experience. I have come to the conclusion that I have learned many things that have improved my abilities as a writer. Also, I would like to thank Professor Julia M. Rodas for being so helpful and understanding with my writing. She did a very good job in showing me and helping find my way into writing by focusing on some of the problems I was facing and clarified them so that I would better understand them. I believe my own personal style of writing will continue to grow and I can add a lot of what I learned from this class. I feel more confident and comfortable. I would totally...

Finally!!! It’s almost the end of the semester. My semester in English 112 with professor Rodas was Amazing. Throughout the whole semester it was very helpful for me, learning new concepts when it comes to writing essays. I learned how to make connections between two texts, writing stronger, finding great evidence in a source, and how to do mla citation on my own. I always had several difficulties when it comes to writting essays or doing research papers on a college level. But this semester, I feel that I have improved my skills as a writer, and a critical thinker. Many writing assignments we had also helped me improve my drafting, every class sesions we had to come up with a draft for our upcoming assignemts which i feel really helped me improve my skills. Professor Rodas always welcomed everyone of her students and always had office hours to make sure everyone is on the same page. Office hours were amazing for me because I was able to get help I needed on an assignment. She always made sure every one of her students understood the lesson. If I were to take this class again from the beginning, I would just stop being afraid of making mistakes and be more open so I could get the extra help I needed from the beginning of the semester. This whole semester my English Professor has taught me a lot about the way I write. I also learned from the feedback my professor gave me on my papers just to make sure I don't repeat the same mistakes on any other essays in the future. Now that I have the knowledge that I need when it comes to writing my essays, I will make sure to use it and do well on all my essays throughout the rest of my...

This semester (Fall 2022) I took English 112 with Professor Julia Rodas, she's a great professor who always gave great feedback on my work. She always knew how to keep everyone engaged with the work and made sure we all understood what was going on. Throughout the class I learned so much, professor Rodas helped me connect my real-life experiences with the work we did in class even if it felt sometimes like I didn't have one. Normally, when it comes to English class I tend to not have much interest, but in this class I found myself being genuinely interested in the readings and the essays. In the past, when it came to readings I didn't pay much attention to them but with the readings from this class, I was always engaged and I was appreciative of being able to read about experiences that I normally would know nothing about. I really liked being able to write about something that interested me for the research essay and while writing that essay I learned how to properly choose a text and include and structure the evidence I found. This class really did help me a lot and I know that when I'm writing future essays, what I've picked up from this class will always help me. Walking away from this class I know that I could've done better by being more on top of my work but professor Rodas was always understanding and helped me catch up with my work and I genuinely appreciate that. Although, I still have a lot to learn, after this class I know that I'm a little more prepared for my future writing classes and I am very thankful to professor Rodas for helping me improve my...