400 words

At the beginning of the semester, I was looking forward to learning how to express my critical thinking analysis into my writing. I thought that the course would be very challenging and pose a lot of complicated writing assignments with very critical analysis in the readings. I was worried about not keeping the same pace as the rest of the class with the reading. When I entered this class, my reading habits were not at the college level and I was not good at structuring essays and always focused on writing amount instead of writing quality. I needed to relearn as well as unlearn a lot of different skills on order to change my writing to be more effective. I needed to learn how to implicate with curiosity, attentiveness, openness to new ideas, persistence, flexibility, and reflectiveness. I thought that I had a good idea of reflectiveness and I am always open to new things, but I knew the rest of those habits would be heard to come by. Since the first essay I learned how much revision is required to write a good essay. I learned that we always have more to write and attacking something one time one way would not help anything. I liked that what I learned in this class I could translate to any of my other classes especially the flexibility aspect. I learned how to read better with subjects that might not necessarily be interesting to me and found curiosity. I learned to ask questions and that searching for the answers will help me find new questions and will engage me into what I am doing in my work. Having to unlearn my old habits was very tough. It’s kind of made me reflect on the times that I didn’t know how to shoot a basketball and needed to learn again. It is very difficult being taught something your entire life and having to learn it again. I think that the course did a good job of applying sort of training wheels until we got better at it and still created great assignments to get better at the skills that we need.