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Esmeralda Trujillo

Professor Moore

ENGL 1302

3 May 2018

The End

Spring of 2017 I decided to retake ENGL 1302 with Ms. Moore who is an outstanding

instructor to have when having difficulty writing essay papers. The class itself was enjoyable to

attended every Tuesday and Thursday due to the classmates I got to meet and become friends

with. Ms. Moore is not a hard grader but also, not an easy grader she would provide examples of

and outlines for the essay’s. The only assignment that turned out difficult for me was the

proposal/casual essay since it was the first time both essay was made only into one, meaning we

were her guinea pigs. Being able to improve my writing skills by doing different assignments

and even creating websites would one day come in handy. This semester I improved my skills in

researching and organizing my causal/proposal essay including the redux website in addition to

peer reviewing my rhetorical analysis.

Without the choice in being able to submit our essays in blackboard for optional peer

review from Ms. Moore and the help of those who also peer reviewed it. I would not have

noticed my errors in my rhetorical analysis and casual/proposal essay before submitting my final

copy. Following academic rules include sentences felonies, fragments, comma splices, trash

words can be difficult when trying to reach word count in a completely free grammatical error.

When I turned in my rhetorical analysis for the complete rough draft she did plenty of comments

due to my many fragments, awkward and her “I don’t understand “sentences. Seeing what my

common mistakes were made me think more carefully to avoid making the same errors on my
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complete final draft. Having professional pair of eyes to overlook my essay was an advantage in

creating a proper essay to achieve a high grade making this tool very helpful.

Looking back at my two essays, the casual/proposal assignment was not one of my best

grades, which was a 79 knowing full well that I was going to get a grade between 70-80. My

major error was in my body paragraphs were off focus from the topic sentence. What I should

have done is kept it organize using the MEAL plan and it there would not have been many

awkward sentences. I did improve my skills in researching which was necessary for the essay

and the redux website that went with the topic of my causal/proposal. For scholarly sources we

used EBSCO and CREDO which are both recommended by the college librarians which came in

handy when needing actual information. When creating my redux website, it was way easier to

research for more information including when it was my first time in creating one.

My writing skills and researching have both improved since the start if ENGL 1301

towards the end of this semester in re-using and learning new effective tools. Utilizing all the

skills and experience created in Ms. Moore class will help me in the near future when writing a

paper or creating a website if needed in my career.