Final Jessica Elliott

Jessica Elliott

English 102

Mr. Neuburger

12 December 2011
Final

My experience in English 102 has been quite different than any of my other English classes. I have been introduced to new things such as twitter and scribe. I never used any of these cites before this class. The various writings in this class were not too difficult until we came to the research paper. My own writing has improved with the many papers we had to write. My experience with writing research papers was fine, I didn’t care for the writing section but the research part was what I enjoyed most. I liked learning about the Holocaust; there were a lot of things I didn’t know. And the learning of this made me think of things a little differently. I think it’s so sad what has happen to those people.
The impact of technology was a huge factor in everything we did. After we did any assignment we needed to up load it to scribe. All the different cites that was introduced was a bit over whelming at times. I liked that when doing a research paper there is so many ways to organize it. You can use the web and have book marks to help hold information which I thought was exciting. I never liked having to keep together all my information I tend to lose something.
I have learned about writing papers in previous classes but the one thing I had trouble on was the in text citations. It was confusing at times but I think I finally got the hang of it. The comments from my papers were helpful and it helped me with other papers I wrote in class. I liked the different stories we read about and then discussed about in class. I enjoyed it when we got in groups and discussed about the stories we had read. I seem to learn more when I do group projects or settings. I would have liked to of done more group projects to get to know the people in the class a little better. I think I would have felt more comfortable posting my work if I did.
My writing has improved as I said earlier but it still needs a lot of work in my opinion. I’ve learned how to write papers but I was a little rusty since I haven’t written a research paper in a couple of years. I needed the refreshment on things such as MLA format and work cited page and paraphrasing of other authors work. I think over all this semester was good and I came out learning many new and exciting things.