Tyler Miller

5/2/19

Reflective Essay

Emily Litle

Reflective Essay

From this spring semester, there was very few that things that I got the chance to learn,

and that was a major lack of going to class on my part. The things that I did learn were very

beneficial to myself and I can carry those things into the next semester when I take the same

class over again. For me it was hard to adjust to the people and the environment of being in a

class with much older students, but I need to realize that were all there to take the class and

get it over with. I’m goanna talk about journals, research presentation, and MLA formatting and

how I did on them.

To start it off the best pieces of writing that I had were eh journals by far. I felt very

comfortable with the topics that were given and I found it easy to relate to the ones that I did. I

can’t say I did very many, but the few that I did were strong beliefs I had that I was able to back

up and turn it into a well written paper. I don’t want to say that they were over the top good

because I didn’t see any revisions that you gave me or comments but I did get a 10/10 on them

so I can only imagine that it’s a good thing. My favorite one was the one with our favorite band

or our favorite song, because it’s something that is so easy to relate because we could listen to

our favorite songs whenever we want to with the technology we have. All we do is look it up on

the internet and it’s there and I don’t think that everyone takes the advantage of being able to
look up a song rather than having to go and buy it. You also get to express the feelings that you

get from the song or music and show it makes you feel.

The research presentation and the Grame Turner were another two favorites because I

liked the work that we had to do within the groups. It was fun being able to see everyone side

of the topic that we were researching, like ours was Kylie Jenner and how she was so wealthy.

When we all got together we all laughed at how she became so rich but when we went to put

our ideas together than not all of us agreed on what we were going to talk about. By the end of

the project we did a presentation and successfully put together a poster within research from

just that class. Working with older adults in this class was a different experience and I think it

was a good one because they can give you a different perspective to see things from and that

was a plus for me and the people that I worked with gave me a different look on how they saw

this topic. The same way with the Grame Turner article, all these people that were a bit older

than me had a different perspective on how they thought that the article was written and these

are things that I would’ve never took into consideration. It’s awesome how you get knew ideas

from other people because I feel that it helps us expand our thinking.

The last paper that I want to reflect on would be the research topic and that was one of

my biggest fears coming into this class. I have done them in the past and have passed the

paper, but I’m not sure how, because I never did the annotated bibliography right and I know

that I didn’t do it right for this class. I felt confident with the topic that I had chosen to write it

on and I turned it into an argument paper rather than a research paper. I looked at the

comments that you had left on the grades and from you telling me that it was more of an

argument helps me understand why it is. I think that if I was to choose a softer topic rather than
sports that I would have done better and focused more on what I was researching. I knew that

when I was doing the annotated bibliography I knew that I wasn’t doing it right and that makes

it reasonable for me to get the grade that I did because I think that it would’ve been copy write

for the citations that I put all throughout the paper.

In conclusion, the reflection of this semester for this class wasn’t great at all but the

skills that I learned I will be able to carry into the same class next year when I retake the class. I

wish that I could’ve kept up with this class that way I could’ve passed it and learned more

writing skills. You are an amazing teacher and I love how you teach, because it comes off better

understanding. I think with more effort on my part I could’ve been able to pull off a passing

grade. This paper shows that I didn’t go to much otherwise would probably have actual papers

rather than journals, and if I had more papers I did I’d be able to talk about them but I don’t.

Hopefully next year I will learn from the mistakes I had this year and be more successful.