English 123 Final

Jack Mahoney
English 123
Professor Drown
4/29/20

Over the duration of this class, I learned so much about how to read complex pieces of writing. Using active reading, annotating, and other skills like right there and text + you I was able to become a better reader and writer. Being able to come to terms with a piece of writing is vital to your understanding of the text and allows you to translate that knowledge into a piece of writing.

I faced a lot of challenges in this course this year, but I believe they made me a better student. Over the years of being in school, I never had a teacher that assigned so much work. Not that this was a bad thing, I had just never experienced something like that. Being a freshman, this hit me harder than a linebacker blindsiding a quarterback. However, with the help of Professor Drown I was able to figure out a system that worked best for me. In this process, I learned that it’s important to write things down for reminders and to stay on top of your work in general.

I think the most rewarding times in this class was when Professor Drown would applaud me on doing good work on assignment. As a student I don’t have a ton of confidence in my abilities in the classroom and hearing that I was producing good work from Professor Drown made me happy. From this, I learned that I should always be confident in the classroom.

When approaching future writing assignments, I will use a lot of what I learned in this class to help me. Learning how to structure a paragraph properly, proper citation use and pulling evidence from the text will all be things that I learned that will help me.