Final Reflection

Shahadat Rahman

Professor Matyakubova

English 21003

7 December 2017

Final Reflection

While reviewing the work I have submitted this past semester, it is clear to me how much I have grown as a writer. In the first assignment, the informative report, I realized that I had moved on from grammatical and analytical errors to a much larger problem: local structure. The vast majority of my sentences in the first assignment were written using simple sentences of the same structure; this made my writing dull and boring. Adding on to the dullness of my paper, I repeated words throughout the essay without using synonyms to make my writing sound more attractive. When looking over my final paper I look at a piece of writing I can be proud of. Not only does it accomplish the analytical and grammatical standards I normally achieve, the local structure includes varied sentence format and a breadth of vocabulary which helps my writing be more vivid and appealing to read. By doing so I am one step closer to becoming the writer I hope to be.

But this class did not only help me become a better writer, it helped me become a better person. The people in this class came from all walks of life, each with their own set of struggles. These different point of views helped shape a diverse class with interesting — and occasionally heated— group discussions. It also helped that the professor did not impose her own views, but she left the discussion to the students: the class was not merely the professor lecturing, the bulk of the class relied on students discussing. I realized the perspectives of others and learned to consider them not only when approaching my writing, but when approaching life. I never thought I would learn as much as I did when I first entered this class: about writing and about life.