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Joel Luis Juan


Professor Ahn
English 114
10 May 2014
English Freshman Year
This second semester of English has been a great experience. This semester for my
English 114 class I had professor Ahn and I would say I learned very helpful things and was
taught methods of writing never taught to me before. Of course at first I was a thrown off on how
some of my classmates had the professor the semester before and I was the new student who had
to adapt to this new professor. The writing in the class mainly consisted on the novels we read
and I would say the ones chosen were fun and easy to read. Our ideas were helped and
strengthened to further our ideas in making our writing more fluent. From a previous English
class I was taught that a good reader is a good writer and I can now see how that phrase is
accurate because before I would hardly read and my writing basically sucked but now that I read
more thanks to this class my ideas are easier to put on paper. The novels we read such as Never
Let Me Go, Uglies, and other text we read were helpful in getting ideas and work done. My
writing has been tremendously been helped on because I am more confident about my
introduction, thesis statement, and body structure. I think this was mainly because of the
prospectus, an outline of my writing before the essay where thoughts are able to get written
down. The prospectus helped me in structuring my essay in knowing what sources to use and
when to use them.
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The things Ive learned this semester I would surely keep and use it later on in the future
for other classes. Before I wouldnt really know how to use or bring outside evidence into my
writing but with the help of this class I can now easily quote or explain whatever I please to
strengthen my writing. Adding my works cited page at the end of my writing is also I am going
to keep using because before I was only briefly taught about it but in this class our professor
went into detail about the correct way to use a citation and even taught us the library databases
we have in school. The library databases at CSUN are really helpful to whatever one is looking
for because information can be shortened into easily found with easy key words used. Even after
we still had trouble in our writing after feedback from our professor we were given the
opportunity to go to the LRC at school in whatever writing assignment trouble we had. There we
were given an extra reader to see and criticize our writing. The peer reviews were helpful were
we compared, contrasted, and analyzed the writings of our peers in order to grasp and connected
ideas to strengthen our writing.
My favorite part of this course would have been the group projects. Working with my
fellow students was a great experience and connecting our ideas surely helped our writing. Not to
mention the group projects were fun and that being said getting the job done was easy. I think the
group projects we did would have been challenging if done alone. The hardest part of the class
was probably the research because the outside information was fundamental in strengthening the
essay or hurting it if it was a bit off topic. The library databases again were fundamental to this
concern of mine and also the paragraph structure was something that I had an issue with. Before
I would use a quote from an outside source and just throw it somewhere in my writing and think
it would help my work when it probably wasnt. I probably also had trouble with the shitty first
draft because I felt it threw me off and it wasnt taken seriously. In this class we were taught to
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introduce the writing or piece of information with the authors name and the title of the piece and
then the quotation marks. After writing the piece we were taught to explain the quote and how
that has to do with our writing. Explaining the quotation only strengthens the work because one
has information to gain credibility and makes the writing believable. One cannot just quote
something and not talk about what it is or why its important. Finally, Im going to miss this
class as it brought good times and memories forever cherished and the stuff I learned Ill keep
using in the future.

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