Reflective Essay Reflection

It is still so surreal to reflect back on my first semester as an incoming college student in the ENC1101 course, analyzing at my progression as a reader and writer in literacy. Since the first day of class I set in stone my goals for this class: receive a 4.0 GPA, develop my connecting theories skills in writing, and become more aware of objectives for each Unit throughout the course. All of these goals became achievements that not only make others proud but most importantly give me self pride. In order to earn the grades and achieve these goals, I went after every opportunity that I was given as an incoming college student, such as office hours and extra credit. By taking this course I have gained confidence with the utilization of literacy, and made an addition to my group of impactful literacy sponsors. Once students are finished with high school they assume that there is nothing else to learn beyond the stereotypical five paragraph essay, but they are so wrong. I was able to obtain so much knowledge about numerous course concepts from Writing about Writing, articles, and my professor. These concepts will carry on with me throughout a bright future of writing courses, job interviews, and any other skills that require literacy. The four outcomes listed below will help illuminate how I improved as a writer, by being a driven college student and going out of the way to earn my achievements in this course. In the first outcome I improved comprehending scholar texts,

During this semester in English 107, I have progressed more as a writer. Before I went to University of Arizona, my writing was rigid. I wrote five-paragraph TOEFL style essay all the time in my high school life. After I attended in English 107, I was not confident about my writing skill. Throughout these three projects we have done, I become more and more confident about my writing skill than before. The Student Learning Outcomes also helped me to grow as a writer a lot. In these goals, I did well on several of them, but I still need to work on the other goals.

This is a reflective essay based on a event which took place in a hospital setting. The aim of this essay is to explore how members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) worked together and communicate with each other to achieve the best patients outcome.

I would like to think that I had some significant growth as a writer in my first semester as a college student. My rhetorical analysis essay, persuasive essay, and reflective analysis essay were all very different from each other in how I approached them and felt about them, but each one helped me grow as a writer in different ways. The rhetorical analysis was my first college essay so I felt some extreme self-imposed pressure to do well on it. I really enjoy writing persuasive essays because it causes you to form your own opinions and support them with evidence. My least favorite essay would most likely have to be the reflective analysis essay. I absolutely despise sharing my thoughts and emotions with people, let alone writing them. Beginning the essay was extremely difficult for me. However, I did found it to be the easiest essay to write once I had all my ideas gathered together. The point is, these three essays all had their pros and cons to them, but nonetheless, they each helped me grow as a writer in their own way, which helped me reach many of the stated outcomes for this class. This paper examines some of my work in these essays and describes how I was able to reach some of the course objectives.

Introspection is an important activity that adults should take time to do. I find myself thinking more about the world and others than I do about myself. This activity is beneficial as it helped me do some self-reflection prior to taking any assessments to confirm or reveal who I am.

When I first walked into dual credit composition at the beginning of the year, I wasn’t worried about not doing well in the class. I had always been an exceptional English student, so I thought this would be a breeze for me. However, I soon learned that being good at reading doesn’t necessarily make you good at writing. From my semester in this course, my writing has become better throughout the year through writing in a way that is easier to understand, outlining all my essays, and employing better editing techniques.

The challenging component this semester was transitioning from being a high school level writer to a college-level writer. However, English 10 has by far been my best experience in writing. By taking this course I have retrieved many helpful elements, that will help me be a successful writer throughout college. In high school, essays often gave me anxiety and stress, however, when taking English 10, I was able to learn to enjoy the process and the art of writing purposefully and mindfully. Even though I have taken advanced placement English courses in high school and have taken a practice run of college level English over the summer with Professor Brenda Venezia, I was still able to get a lot more out of this course. To showcase my progress in this course, I have included my essay from project 2 a rhetorical analysis titled, “Black Lives Matter!” and a research essay from project 3 titled “Why is Racism dangerous?”, which effectively demonstrate my growth as a creative writer, reader, and thinker.

At the time, I did not feel I had handled the situation well, nor had I considered the patient’s feelings and perhaps anxiety. There were cues which I should have picked and addressed before things got out of hand. When I first spoke to Roy and noticed that he was frowning, I should have picked on that and asked if he had any concerns. I should have also consulted with my senior when I first noticed that Roy was nervous about me inserting a cannula into his arm. At some point I thought he had something against me personally and became more frustrated when he declined being attend to by a senior doctor. However, after speaking to one of the senior doctors, I later found out that he was his wife's main carer who suffered with dementia and when I went to cannulate him, he thought he would have to stay in hospital overnight leaving his wife with no one to look after. Later on, Roy told me that he had had a bad experience years ago at a different hospital when one of the doctors tried catheterising him causing trauma, therefore it wasn't anything personally directed towards me, but a reaction revoked by memory of a previous bad experience. On the other hand, Dr Hill’s presence in a tense atmosphere helped me to compose myself which in turn made me feel confident to complete the task. I could have given up and walked away but I was determined to learn how to work under stressful conditions and still give the patient the best outcome. With Roy’s reassurance and inspite of being

What motivated you to do your volunteer work? How did you come up with the idea for your activity? Who or what inspired you to get involved? How did your volunteer activity begin? Why did you feel it was important?

When I was a child, I was a real menace. My mother told me my behavior could clear out a playground. Obviously changes have happened since my playground days and today I’m going to tell you a story prior to my metamorphosis. This is a story that I am not proud to say happened. My parents think it’s funny; however, at the time of the incident they did not. This happened about ten years ago, so I can now look back on it and laugh about what happened with them.

Practicums are a time to put into practice what we as pre-service teachers have learnt in theory. This experience can be challenging and rewarding all at the same time as it makes a pre-service teacher face both their strengths and challenges as an individual and an educator. Lesson planning can be time-consuming during the hours when one is not teaching but makes the teaching time run more smoothly. There are standards that graduate teachers need to adhere to and relationships with mentors, children, families and colleagues to establish all in such a short time.

I was eager to see how my research paper had been scored for I felt that it was one of my best works, worthy of an A. I turned to the last page of my 6 page paper only to find that I was 2 points off the expected grade. The disappointment that immediately followed was justified by my thoughts as I questioned Ms.Brumbacks grading policy. I confirmed my beliefs when my friends had received even lower marks, that contradicted their intelligence. As quickly as these thoughts came to mind they left, for I am a reasonable person and I don't let my emotions judge logical events. I had received a low grade because I only spent a day writing the research paper and my bibliography was pitiful. The grade I had received did not reflect my

“Legacy, what is a legacy?” The quote stated before was taken directly from the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” This question runs rampant in Alexander Hamilton’s mind as he is face to metal and gunpowder with Aaron Burr’s bullet propelling from the chamber of a gun like an agitated bull in a rodeo. When confronted by this question I knew I couldn’t evade this question from the inner machinations of my own inquisitive mind. It is as if my very soul yearned for the answer to this very broad question. In short and all you have time for I am sure, I had to know. I decided I would have to self-reflect and answer this to escape the imprisonment that is the fact of never knowing an end to this puzzle of my own definition of what’s to come after, well, me.

Gosh, some people have all the luck and some also can make everything look easy, effortless. Some people take all Advance Placement classes, the tough ones, and still manage to be “ All State,” or “All New England's” athletes. How do I know this? One of them sleeps in the room right next to mine. Everytime I walk by my brother, Chase’s, room and I peek in, I am immediately reminded of his achievements and glory. The ribbons are endless, the trophies undusted ( he has had them a long time), and the academic diplomas and plaques shine bright.

Growing up, I always had a difficult time controlling my temper. I would experience erratic mood swings that escalated beyond what seemed appropriate, and I would handle stressful situations unfittingly. Throughout most of my teen years, I overlooked and dismissed the severity of my emotional troubles. It took three years to be thoroughly diagnosed with Bipolar Ⅱ Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. During those three years, I learned a lot about who I am, who I was to become, and the difficulties associated with the disorders I face.