reflection

Over the course of the semester, I’ve learned a lot writing, especially through the research project. I think the biggest thing I’ve learned is that it’s not as hard as I thought. When I first got the assignment of a 3000-word paper, on a topic that we get to choose ourselves, I was really intimidated and I figured I wasn’t going to be able to write a very good paper. But now that I’m almost done, not only by my own judgment, but also based on the comments I’ve gotten through peer review, I’ve realized that my paper isn’t as bad as I figured it would be.

It’s actually been pretty easy finding other documents that relate to my topic outside of the texts in the New Humanities Reader, and it’s been pretty easy linking the NHR texts to one another. It may just be my topic, which may or may not be easier to research… I’m not sure how other people’s research processes have gone. But compared to how I thought it would be finding relevant sources, it’s been a lot easier than I expected.

In general, my writing has gotten a lot better since the course began. I thought I was a pretty good writer because of a good SAT score, but I realized that high school actually hadn’t prepared me very well for writing college papers (which honestly was my fault, I could had paid much better attention in AP English). But now that I’ve taken Expos, I’m actually really confident in my writing of college papers, more so than I was when the course first began.