In English 2010 I learned many things; the most important being tolerance. Before this class I knew little to nothing about the Middle East, or Islam. Now I know a lot more about the culture and the people, and I realize my previous stereotypes were very wrong. After researching and writing about Bosnian refugees, I feel like I have achieved the goals of English 2010. I believe a large goal of the class was to broaden our minds and open us up to different cultures and views. It was also to successful write in different genres about the same subject material, and create a piece using multimedia. I managed to write about refugees in three different ways, profile, report and proposal. I put them all into a Weebly website and I believe it turned out quite well.
The papers I wrote for this class were probably the hardest I have ever written. I struggled with using the same information to create three separate papers. I wrote some atrocious rough drafts and revised them several times. I'm still not completely happy with how they turned out. I think the biggest problem I faced was writing about such a tetchy subject without sounding ignorant. I wish I could have absorbed every last detail of the war and what happened after, but there was only so much I could find. I was always fearing that I would get a fact wrong, and devalue the point I was trying to make. I resolved it by double checking my sources and having friends read over it just in case. I also found citing sources hard. It had been a while since I had written a research paper, and the process of citing sources was longer than I remembered. I trudged through it though. I went back through old noted and reminded myself on how to properly write research papers. It took extra time, but the end result was worth it.
English 2010 challenged me in ways I did not expect. Going into it I thought it would be just a normal writing class. Afterwards though, I realized that everything was connected and important. English 2010 was less about writing and more about learning. It made every paper important instead of just an assignment. I chose to put in my profile, report and proposal because they best illustrated what I learned and what was important to me by the end of the class. The profile taught me how to turn an interview into a compelling paper that told the story of an entire life. Although it was a bit awkward to interview my coworker about personal issues, the information gained was incredibly valuable. I believe everyone should know his story. If I had decided to take another class, I would have never learned about an entire war, and an entire people.
The profile lead into the other two papers, the first being the report. It was eye opening to do a bit more digging then write a more serious factual piece. Again I learned how to write like I had in the past, with a little bit of new information. It was a struggle to get all of my information in the right order, but I spent hours reading over my paper and rewriting parts that were off. While writing my report I was brainstorming my proposal and basing my argument off of it. The biggest problem I faced there, was not writing one big long proposal. My papers kept bleeding into each other and for a while I was worried I would not be able to separate them. My resolve was to throw everything away, and organize all of my thoughts. I made it so I was only allowed to cover specific topics in each paper, and it eventually became two separate pieces.
In the end, this class taught me how to write all over again, and also helped me grow as a person. English 2010 may have been the best class I've ever taken. I mastered my skills at using Weebly website creator, learned valuable information about Islam. I now know I can write research papers again, and have discovered how to interview someone, write a report on something, and propose a solution to a tough issue. These three papers have done more to help my writing and myself more than almost all of the other papers I've ever written combined.
The papers I wrote for this class were probably the hardest I have ever written. I struggled with using the same information to create three separate papers. I wrote some atrocious rough drafts and revised them several times. I'm still not completely happy with how they turned out. I think the biggest problem I faced was writing about such a tetchy subject without sounding ignorant. I wish I could have absorbed every last detail of the war and what happened after, but there was only so much I could find. I was always fearing that I would get a fact wrong, and devalue the point I was trying to make. I resolved it by double checking my sources and having friends read over it just in case. I also found citing sources hard. It had been a while since I had written a research paper, and the process of citing sources was longer than I remembered. I trudged through it though. I went back through old noted and reminded myself on how to properly write research papers. It took extra time, but the end result was worth it.
English 2010 challenged me in ways I did not expect. Going into it I thought it would be just a normal writing class. Afterwards though, I realized that everything was connected and important. English 2010 was less about writing and more about learning. It made every paper important instead of just an assignment. I chose to put in my profile, report and proposal because they best illustrated what I learned and what was important to me by the end of the class. The profile taught me how to turn an interview into a compelling paper that told the story of an entire life. Although it was a bit awkward to interview my coworker about personal issues, the information gained was incredibly valuable. I believe everyone should know his story. If I had decided to take another class, I would have never learned about an entire war, and an entire people.
The profile lead into the other two papers, the first being the report. It was eye opening to do a bit more digging then write a more serious factual piece. Again I learned how to write like I had in the past, with a little bit of new information. It was a struggle to get all of my information in the right order, but I spent hours reading over my paper and rewriting parts that were off. While writing my report I was brainstorming my proposal and basing my argument off of it. The biggest problem I faced there, was not writing one big long proposal. My papers kept bleeding into each other and for a while I was worried I would not be able to separate them. My resolve was to throw everything away, and organize all of my thoughts. I made it so I was only allowed to cover specific topics in each paper, and it eventually became two separate pieces.
In the end, this class taught me how to write all over again, and also helped me grow as a person. English 2010 may have been the best class I've ever taken. I mastered my skills at using Weebly website creator, learned valuable information about Islam. I now know I can write research papers again, and have discovered how to interview someone, write a report on something, and propose a solution to a tough issue. These three papers have done more to help my writing and myself more than almost all of the other papers I've ever written combined.