Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Final Reflection
Eliu Figueroa
Ms.Kardell
May 1, 2019
Before going into Eng 102 I was not familiar with the things we were going to be
learning about. The only helpful prior experience I had with something similar to to Eng 102 was
Eng 101 but even those two were different from each other. Highschool english was a lot
different when comparing it to english in college, in high school we would read parts of a book
or a book entirely as a class and do reflections of the chapters and maybe write an essay for it.
Here in college, things were a lot different where we had to do research on a specific topic like
finding an issue and try to persuade an audience that the issue was very serious. Going from one
type of work to another was definitely difficult because its all new to you.
My Writing
When doing the writing projects I didn’t really have a specific process for creating them
it was more do what the teacher assigned to us like creating a rough draft which to me was just
freewriting on the topic. Another process we did in the class was the annotated bibliography,
while it was a project of its own it was meant to make writing our position paper a lot easier
because we would already have summarized our sources. I feel like I have no gotten better at this
type of work because I never set aside the proper amount of time to actually improve on my
writing skills to do better on these projects. The ways I need to improve is to learn how to
properly have a process for writing like brainstorming my ideas with research and then actually
finding good sources that really support my topic. Another thing to improve is my time
management skills because if I do not improve that there will be no way for me to improve my
skills in writing.
Issues I had
Issues that I had during the semester in this class were procrastination and lack of
motivation. There were times where I had the opportunity to work on my writing in class and
Running Head: Final Reflection 3
instead I would procrastinate and leave it for later. The issue with this is I would find myself
struggling later on to write my papers because I would get stuck and it would be too late to seek
any kind of help. What I did to try and solve this issue was to try to start working on my
assignments a lot earlier to give myself more time to properly develop it and seek help if needed.
Unfortunately this solution come up towards the end of the semester so I was unable to apply it
to my previous projects but for the future, this is what I plan to do to stay caught up with all my
work and to give myself more time to develop the skills in each subject. I never used any
resources while in this class which was a huge mistake because ASU provides a lot of resources
to help students. In the future I plan on using the writing center a lot more so they can give me
advice on how to improve my writing, I also plan to see my professors more frequently because
they’re the most important resource since they are teaching the class.
This semester I found it frustrating that I was letting myself fall behind in not just ENG
102 but in all of my other classes as well. I would let one thing slip by and as I would try to catch
up to finish it another assignment would slip by. This became very common very fast, it was
happening so much to the point where I wanted to give up on school because of all the stress it
was causing me. My goals for this semester was to have good grades in all my classes, to have
A’s and B’s like last semester but I was unable to accomplish this goal because of the reason
above. Ms.Kardell told me how she believed that a lot of public schools in Phoenix did not
properly set kids up for college and I feel like that had a role to play in why I was doing bad
because I had similar issues during highschool where I would let work slip by. My work this
semester definitely shows I am not the best writer by any means because my writing assignments
were done very poorly and I can only blame myself for this. As a learner this semester showed
Running Head: Final Reflection 4
me that if I set my mind to it I can learn a lot of things, at the beginning of the semester I started
out rough but towards the end I started learning a lot more things in all of my classes.
Conclusion
One thing I would change if I took the class all over again is I would set aside more time
for the writing assignments because lack of time management was a big issue for me. The
writing project I would go back to revise my position paper because that was my worst project
out all of them and I would definitely like to go back and do it properly. A goal I would like to
set for myself is to not let myself fall behind in my future classes, I want to stay on top of my