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.
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