Blog 70 - Letter

Dear English 110 Student,

I’m sure you don’t want to go through another English writing class, but it’s required so you have to get used to it. This class is no much fun. Between blogging every day, and writing two papers:  your Analytical and Research paper and your Commonplace article, you are going to quite busy. But as terrible as the class seems, and at times is, it is still quite helpful.

While blogging almost every day was a hassle, now I am more comfortable typing up short papers that come to a little over 250 words. This class helped me become more familiar with commonly made mistakes, from misuse of some words to grammatical errors. It also gave me a taste of what writing a research paper is all about: I learnt how to look for relevant information in scholarly articles and then integrate the seamlessly into mine without affecting the flow of my paper. I learnt how to cite correctly, and avoid plagiarism.

For the second part of the course, when we began to focus in Commonplace, I learnt how to write so as to grab the attention of my reader, and keep them hooked on whatever I had to say. I learnt how to critically assess other articles, first in terms of how timely, compelling and relevant it was, and then in terms of grammatical errors and sentence level issues. I learnt how to make use of other peoples’ critical assessments of my paper to my paper better.

All in all, this is a pretty informative class. And while it can be trying sometimes, in the end, you’ll be a better writer at the end. Good Luck!