During the spring semester of English 101 I refreshed my writing skills and learned many new ones. The skill that I’m most proud of taking with me into English 102 is planning and outlining of essays. In the past, I would revise and outline an essay after I had already written it. Throughout my practice in the 2004 spring semester, I learned how to plan, organize, and outline my essays better before I even wrote them, which made the revision process shorter in the end.

Also throughout the semester we as a class participated in many peer-editing assignments. While doing these assignments I became more proficient in using my critical thinking skills to analyze and evaluate other students writing. This also helped me analyze my own essays for proper grammar and content, by looking for mistakes in other students writing, I also became better noticing mistakes in my own essays also.

During the semester we also were required to research, organize and write an eight-page research paper using the topic the teacher provided “What is good writing?” After the rough drafts of our papers were completed, we again used peer editing to review each other’s essays for proper content, focus, grammar, coherence and MLA documentation.

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