Arias, Gavin

Professor Wesley Beard

English 115A

12/11-13/23

Final Reflection Essay

Throughout the entire time of this semester, from the beginning of this English class I

came with full confidence that hopefully many of my essays or assignments (mostly essays) will

turn out good rather than just incomplete work but that is not the case. Up until this end of this

semester I can conclude that I ended up doing not so well as I should have been, not saying I did

extremely bad, I’m currently at this moment passing this class with a C+ (hopefully by the time

this gets looked I already passed) anyways, I had expected myself to pass above my expectation

but I definitely believed to myself I have improved being at a lower level. Even if I still ended up

doing good, in my opinion I generally felt like I would stay regular the same. What I mean by

that is every week by week I was slowly noticing that my confidence level was moving at a slow

pace.

I would definitely say that one or actually two strengths that I accomplished so far from

this class is just being really patient with myself and being open-minded to receive feedback

from one of my classmates while they review my essay. I was really glad I automatically knew

my strengths from top of my head and the reason why I picked being patient with myself was

due to the fact that most of my classmates are patient as well, so as long as they understand

everything and not freaking out at all then I should be comfortably fine. I can tell you this

because currently my major involves investigating people behavior ( major in CJS). The other

reason why I picked to receive feedback was because some people receive feedback as a bad
thing, they automatically think that they did a horrible job and they think that the individual will

assume their work in a bad way even though it is a rough draft. In my case I’m just ready no

matter how bad or good it is and being truly grateful that someone is reorganizing my

incomplete work. One weakness that I have ( other than the examples I mentioned earlier ) is

actually connected with one of the strengths, which is how to put in the information I got from

the feedback into the final essay, other than just copying and pasting and just fixing up a few

sentences is not definitely not enough. Hopefully as I continue throughout my entire life I can

say that I can finally know who to arrange an essay correctly from feedback.

Overall I can certainly say that without a doubt that this English class was my favorite class,

I'm not even overhyping it just because I have to do this assignment doesn’t mean I can tell the

truth. Anyways, so the experience I had for this class is just purely outstanding, I expected this

class to be boring as throughout my entire time in high school English was just simply boring at

that time but it wasn’t like this during this semester. Everybody in that class had a great time and

at least had a conversation with someone you already know. But educational wise, the feedback I

got was self explanatory even though I stayed after class to talk to the professor about the

homework that was going to be due by the end of the weekend, I felt like talking to the professor

just to clarify anything or just handing me out for tips. Appreciate it Mr. B

Now for my goal or plan to move on forward with my writings is to hopefully and carefully

and truly understand how to correctly better comprehend myself into the writing world, I hope as

time moves and I can stay true to myself that I will become a great writer not only throughout

college but also as I continue in life. While in my major (which is being in the criminal justice

department) it is heavily involved with writing and yet I still haven’t decided what Career jobs I

want to pursue. But one thing for sure, definitely won’t be a judge due to the intensity levels that
come along while working, but for sure what career path I decided to pick, it will unfortunately

be writing a lot.