Self-Reflection

SELF-REFLECTIONLuke Walker

FIRST POST Before I started writing in college I had a very bland style.

I would always stick to the classic 5 paragraph Essay format. I was never very creative with my ideas because I had to stick to

exactly what the teacher wanted to hear. I also had to have the exact format that the rubric stated, therefore

impairing my ability to write creatively. My first post was actually probably the most freedom that

I have had in a writing assigment.

NARRATIVE ESSAY My English 101 narrative essay was titled “The Deer”.

I really liked this essay because I like telling stories and that’s exactly what I chose to do.

I was very surprised how easy it became to just write down what I was thinking and then compile it into an understandable piece of work.

There was a lot of this essay that I could have fixed and edited but overall, I was very excited to be writing on a level that pleased me.

PERSUASIVE ESSAY I really like challenging the beliefs of people, and

defending when people challenge my beliefs. My persuasive essay on the Nietzsche reading we had went well due

to this. I basically sat down and tried to prove a point by pulling out

examples and quotes from the reading. I knew before that this is how you are supposed to write a

persuasive essay, but this time I put a lot more effort into proving that point.

It was at this point that I realized that blogging and practicing new writing styles had began to make an impact on my own.

WALL-E MOVIE When first signing up for English 101 watching the movie Wall-E was the last thing I thought I would be doing. Before I took this course I had never seen the movie. I had also never analyzed a movie in the way we were assigned.

The first time we watched it I actually just enjoyed it. It was the second time that I began to realize many key elements

that would help me with my analysis paper.

EARTH Our class discussions on Earth were some of the best that

I had ever had. We all had so many insightful ideas to announce. Every discussion ended differently, and almost every one got off

subject, but never strayed too far from the main idea. Some days I may not have contributed as much as I should have,

but I was always listening intent fully to my classmates ideas. They were always discussions that definitely made you

think about everyday life.

WALL-E ANALYSIS I had never written an analysis before college.

I was very intimidated when I first heard the announcement that the Wall-E analysis was our biggest grade for the year.

I don’t think that I could have done the job I did if I hadn’t gotten the experience from writing the other two papers.

I took things from both writings that I had learned, also I thought very deeply into the movie to find details that I could use. I think now that a lot of work in college relates to individuality and

creativity.