Kerissa Kreinaker               

Throughout this semester you have taught me a great deal about the concepts of writing. Throughout my whole education career you were the teacher/professor that taught me the most. I am very grateful to have gotten the chance to be in your class. I have learned about how to using citations properly as well as how to create a paper and edit and reedit. You have made it clear on how us as students will write “shitty first drafts”. I have absolutely learned that while being in your class. I always had the impression that it should come to me quick. However, in reality I learned that it will never be that easy, I am going to have to write and come back and rewrite the paper or essay over and over until it flows. I learned how to read through and article and pick and choose what is important to the artifact.  I learned this because of the way about your one on one teaching.  In other words, you have made me feel very comfortable asking for help, you never seemed to make me feel intimated as other professors have in the past. The blog was defiantly something that stuck out for me. The blog posts made me realize how interested and how much health and fitness has become a part of my life. I have never realized how much of an impact it was to myself. Despite that I struggled while doing most of the blogs, I became so much more interested because of the things you were asking us to answer.

Throughout this semester I have learned a quite a lot about myself as a writer. I have been aware that I struggle while writing.  I have realized that I become very unsure of what I am writing about an confuse myself very easily in my writing. Also while reading, I have been able to identify much more about the artifacts versus from when I was a student in high school. I have learned to understand what I am reading throughout reading, other than just reading it like I used too. Accomplishing and overcoming my weakness while being in your class should make me a better writer and reading in the long run, I am hopping. These tools should be helpful for me in the future because hopefully when I am one day a teacher like I am intending on being, I will become more confident and know how to apply myself for my students. I also feel this will help me also by applying for jobs or writing essays for when I apply for my scholarships down the road while being in college. I feel this class was very helpful for my future.

I think one of the greatest strengths I have from being in your class is learning how to properly using citations and cite what I have written about. In high school, I always just copy and pasted the link and that was my citation. However, you explained to me that, that is not the proper way to go about doing it. To think, I have went years doing this and not one teacher or staff has stopped in this negative track, shows how great of a professor you are.  Knowing my flaws in writing and reading, I feel I have to work on expanding my thoughts when I write. I need to progress on sentences that flow and do not confuse my reader. I am certain that I need to focus on this because throughout all of my assignments I have turned in, next to the submission button you have always left specific comments giving me feedback. In those comments you would continuously state how you were a little confused or that I might have missed what was being asked.  I feel that I may work on these things by doing some reading and writing over the summer. While reading some essay I might take up and write some essay and see if one of my friends can take a look at my papers and see what they think I can work on. I realize that this will not be as efficient as if I had a professor look at my work, but I feel that another person’s perspective cannot do much harm to myself. I feel that this is always worth a shot. From this class, I can take away that “shitty” first drafts need to happen. I have learned that in order to succeed you need to fail sometimes. I have absolutely learned that while being in your class. I have had my fair shares at completely failing your assignments, but have learned how to fix the mistakes because of you.