Malika Bushey
English 1106
Reflection Paper
12/11/07

This semester of Comp 1 was filled with difficulties, achievements, and a  lot of interesting papers that I have written and what I have read of my group’s paper. This class has been a challenge for me but I was able to overcome this year’s difficulties, and I was able to achieve and learn from other people’s work.
I had a lot of trouble when it came to writing the papers. I struggled a lot with grammar, run on  sentences, and repeating myself.  It really made me feel worse as a writer because  I would have to redo my paper at least 3 or 4 times before and after the peer review to get it the way I wanted it to be. Writing doesn’t come natural to me, for me it is almost as if it is a foreign language and I am struggling to grasp it. Now towards the end of this semester I am feeling much more conferrable in my writing abilities and skills. I feel now that I can at least put together an okay paper.
Even with all the difficulties that I had during this semester I was able to come out with a lot of achievements with my papers. I felt that once I put my mind and effort to each paper I was able to come up with a good product in the end. I have all my papers saved from when I first wrote draft to the peer review to Steve’s notes to when I put it on my blog. I can see the difference from each paper and how each paper has improved. I have this great feeling now that I can write decently and not feel that my writing wasn’t very good. I have learned a lot in each paper which have turned into these few achievement that I accomplished this semester.
Each paper that I wrote was interesting because of all the different topics that I went of off. I tried to change each essay so that it would be special to me. I also enjoyed and learned a lot from reading other people’s paper in my peer group. I have read many different kind of stories that all related with the same topic. I found it very cool that even though we did have the same topic each individual story told something new. I learned a lot from each person in my peer group.
This semester has taught me on how to become a better writer in different ways. It taught me how to over come my difficulties, to exceed in my achievements, and to learn from my own and everyone else’s paper.