Stacey S Blog Prompt

I can honestly say that I entered this class with a lot of misconceptions about academic writing. I had a lot of self doubt at the beginning but I feel better and more confident of my academic writing skills and ability.  I have learned to take the process and break it down into steps and building on each step.  This is one think that I really never did before this class.  I always seemed to start all over and not have a good understanding of the writing process.  I have learned to really read what is written and reread and to think and rethink which proved to be a very important part of the academic process.  All of this new found knowledge can be applied to other classes.

     As for other classes, I have already applied what I have learned from English 112.  For example,  I am taking a sociology class this semester that has six different books about six different issues in today’s society.  While reading each book, I found myself annotating and really critically thinking about what I was reading.  Academic Writing  became a natural way of thinking, reading and writing for me.  As I would finish one book and move onto the next one, I would find myself comparing the books to one another.  I would find ways that each book could agree with each other and ways in which they would disagree.  This way of synthesizing proved to be very helpful when it came to writing my midterm essay.  My assignment was to link to or more of the books and there issues together.  I believe that applying what I learned in this course proved to be very successful in my other course.

     Although I only took two courses this semester,  I have found English 112 to have helped me a great deal.  Now I have a clearer look at writing.  I can say that before this class I certainly had a different view on how to write academically.  I have developed into a better thinker, reader and writer from this course. If I was able to apply the knowledge gained from English 112 in one other course,  I know that I will be able to confidently use academic writing in other courses and disciplines.