The most successful assignment that I completed was essay #3. The poem I used went well with the theme of my flyer.. I received a 78%, which is the best grade I got within all four essays and that tells me that poetry is my strongest suit. Reading about the author that I used for essay #3 was very insightful. Natasha Tretheway did a great job portraying her point through her poem “Housekeeping”. As the semester progressed, my work has gotten better. I could’ve done better on the quizzes. I missed a couple of quizzes because I wasn’t on top of my due dates. Also if I took my time with quizzes then I probably would get a better score. Some of the quizzes I was confident about because I knew the topic of the quiz, so I thought I would’ve passed based on my knowledge. I will make sure I am on top of my assignments from here on out. One main thing I learned this semester is writing in MLA format. In the beginning I had issues with work citing at the end of the essay. As the semester went on, my mind tapped into my high school English classes and my work has gotten better. Using citations n MLA form can be difficult when there are no directions. But once you learn how to use citations it get simpler.
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I feel like I did the best job and was most successful on essay 3. I shocked myself by how creative I made the poem flyer, and I also was very satisfied with the grade I got from it. It was a fun assignment to do and I’d also say it’s my favorite assignment of this semester. I would say that discussion boards in general are work that I could’ve done better on. A few of them I didn’t do and a tiny bit of them I didn’t receive full 100% credit because I either didn’t respond to a student or I posted my discussion on the weekend. I’d say the main thing I learned this semester is how to really read poems and understand them. It’s kind of general but I’ve always struggled with understanding the true meanings of poems and this semester definitely helped me on that. I’d say I gotten better at understanding poems and being able to talk about them.
The assignment I feel most successful with is essay 3. The reason is I got to express a bit of my creativity when making a flyer about a poet and being able to do research and find copyright-free images for them. Then using the BMCC library to learn about the poet. The assignment I feel I could’ve done better was Essay 1. I should have been focusing and taking things slow on the content I was writing to make sure that I was aligning with the requirements of the essay rules. Next time when proceeding to write an essay on an evaluation I will need to read more carefully on what I write and make sure to read what I write. Then make sure to cross-reference each detail within the text. One thing I learned this semester was how to cite when writing in MLA format. It never came to me how important it is to credit the author from where you pulled your quotes and to also give the exact day you accessed these certain sites where you pulled your cites from. Then the way to also write where the quotes come from.
