What has improved about my writing is now I know how to better form an academic title. I also have improved on my grammar in many ways. I have learned useful words that will come in handy in future academic papers. Not only that, but I feel like my format structure of my papers has improved; I've learned to think outside of the box, use not only the standard five paragraphs, but more than that.
The strategy I learned that I have found the most helpful would be using flash cards for my sources. By writing down the important paragraphs and sentences I want to use from mysources, I've become better organized. This way it is much easier to structure my paragraphs and use quotes from my sources. This way I don't have to scramble through my sources trying to find a relevant quote.
The easiest paper for me to complete would probably have been the second paper, which was over a short story of our choice. I chose "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Anderson because I was really interested in that story and it was a type of genre that I like. I think it was the easiest for me to complete because I chose to do the paper over a short story I really liked and one that I had a lot of interest in. In that way, it was easier for me to reread the short story so much and it was easy for me to become interested in the paper. I think that's what made it easiest for me.
Of all the lessons, I think how to distinguish between using two different words, such as well and good, was the best lesson. Those two words in particular are hard to distinguish between, because nobody really ever taught me how to use them, or when it was correct to use either one.
I do feel more prepared to write a college-level paper. With my English Comp class that I took before coming to college, I felt like it didn't prepare me at all. I took it at a Community College and felt like the professors there did nothing to help me. I feel like this class did help me in some ways to write a better paper.
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