Lovella Santos

Instructor Judith McCann

English 1302.203

20 February 2022

Reflection Essay: Essay 1

What I learned in 1301 was how to work cite and in-text cite. This helped me a lot

because I now do not use any app or website to help me figure out on how to cite. Learning this

in 1301 helped be become a better writer in all of my outside classes. Something that I learned

outside 1301 is that anything that comes to mind write it down. For example, in my conclusion in

my last sentence I mentioned “sleeping early is better said than done.” As for not using in my

first essay I used every little bit of knowledge that I learned in 1301 an I applied it to my essay.

For example, I learned that I could use a quote which could be seen in my 1st sentence of my

essay, how to cite and in-text cite, and so much more.

In my first essay I made a personal experiment on sleeping early. I learned that I have the

worst sleep in the world and that sleeping is hard for me. And I do not think that can use this in

any course, but now I have the knowledge on how to write an essay based on an experiment. If I

ever get any essay similar to this, I will have the knowledge and experience on writing an essay

based on personal and non-personal experiments. For example, I am currently taking a class in

anatomy and physiology in this class that I am taking I learning about illnesses and body parts.

Although we make APA format essay, I will use the knowledge I have to use it in future APA

format essay’s

According to my readers I am a good writer but I lack somethings. Such weaknesses

include, the use of transitions. As for more in detail in the first essay we could not use personal
pronouns which was really hard for me to use in which I consider a weakness. As for my

strengths I am good at elaborating and going into detail which can also become a weakness when

I use a lot of it. If I compare my strengths and weaknesses form 1302 and 1301, I would say that

I have less weaknesses and more strengths. Although I still struggle with grammar. But thanks to

such weaknesses and strengths I am becoming a better writer than I was.

Like I mentioned before the most challenging part of this essay was the use of personal

pronouns. I struggled hard because every time I wanted to say “me, her, she.” It may be easy for

others but for me it was a headache because I could not figure out a way to change them. Until I

came with the words “subject, its, their, and them” these words were so helpful that my headache

even left me. As for the easy aspects of this essay I would say the results, and analysis of my

essay. Those two paragraphs were the easiest, because I just had to mention my feelings towards

the experiment and the results of the experiment. All in all, this essay turned out to be a good

thing for me, because I learned things about me that I did not knew.