Reflective Essay Luis M.

The time I enter this class it was my first class in the university, the state, in the country, I'm from Mexico and I just got here this semester, and I know I don't have that good English, but I'm doing my best effort, and it was so difficult to me this class, because I'm not used to write too much, not even in my natal language that it's Spanish, but in this class literally I just “blow my mind”, in this class I just enter with my basic English that was not to good, only knew the basis, bad grammar and no sense of composition and sentence structure.

And although everything is a process there is always one goal, and in this class the goal for me is for everyone to improve their writing skills and reading strategies for any further courses, and this class it would help me a lot on all my classes in the future, in this class I learn so many methods about writing and writing, and obviously in the process I had so many questions that in the time it were changing and even now I still have questions, and this is good because that way I showed to me that I was doing my best effort in class, and for me the question that I kept all along the semester is. “What is rhetorical reading?” and this question with each article that I read it was changing, and when in the future I enrolled on advanced English courses it will still change, and this is good because over time I would be an experience writer and reader, and this is only with the practice, so this is the reason it´s this class, to practice a lot, to write about everything we want. Our preferment topics with we feel good talking about them, and also on the articles they were interesting, a bit long some of them, but useful on all ways.

This class also did something important on all the semester, “peer response”, we work with our classmates, we discuss with them the articles, argue about our projects, and always there was different opinions, sometimes you just were not interested on what they say, but sometimes they view one angle that you didn´t see and it was the same as important as the other ones, that´s why this method of work it was very useful for me, like when we do revisions and get feedback, it was always a challenge, try to respond them in the easiest way for all to understand, and that´s so difficult because all people think different, and more in our class, where everyone is going to study different majors, some engineer, like un my case, other science or medicine, and everyone thinks in a different way, like me all the things I do I want it to be simple and clear for everyone, all the information you need, but that´s it, no things that just is there cause it just look interesting, we, the engineers, in our reports just put what is necessary,  but this class is totally the opposite of this, in this class, for example the projects, you talk about everything, view all the angles, all the possible cases that it could be, and this for me is annoying, because something that we can do in one short paragraph, we do a whole project about it, and this is the challenge, well it was for me all the semester, and being realistic, I enjoy it, because it was new for me, and I was used to work in a different manner, for example, over there in Mexico, there is not that important to put other person ideas and not to quote, but here this is to seriously, you can be expel of the university for something like this, and I work this way not giving importance to this, and in the beginning with this thing I had problems on all my courses, until one professor told me why I was having problems, and this help me a lot and encourage to work in the correct way, and it´s better because you learn a lot of more.

In conclusion I enter this class just knowing the basics of writing and reading, but by this time I feel like I´m a very experienced reader and writer,  because I did a lot of practice and help me a lot, like now I know so many ways of investigations that may help me in all the courses, and I want to thank the professor, that since kinder garden I think had never worried about their students the way she did, and it feels good to know there are still professor like her, because actually all the professors are just worried about the grades of the students, not on what their learned, also the girls that help us all the semester and the materials with we worked that are the ipads, so useful all the semester. I think this class help me a lot in different ways and I will take advantage in my future classes with the things I learned this semester.