English 15 was by far the best English class
I’ve taken. Having spend all my life writing the standard 5 paragraph essay,
this class allowed me to be more creative with my papers, and to have more fun
writing them. I would say the most enjoyable paper to write was the reflection
essay I wrote about PEDs in baseball. Looking back, I’m almost embarrassed to
say that I used to think revising was pointless. This class has taught me the necessity
of proper revision, as well as proper planning while writing. My essays had a
drastic increase in effect and meaningfulness after revision compared to before.
The biggest hump to get over for me was the thought that I might read over my
essay and have everything wrong with it. This class showed me that even if that
were the case, proper planning will allow you to fix all your mistakes with
plenty of time. The purpose and ability to write paragraph transitions also became
a lot more clear to me with the help of this class. When you start to think
about how to really get your message across, it become a lot easier to write
than when you’re just trying to write to match a certain criteria. That freedom
that I never had before made this a really enjoyable class, and even though it
was a “requirement” it was probably my favorite of the semester. I think my
writing abilities have improved a lot throughout the semester, especially after
learning how to approach writing a new way.
I agree, the papers, even though we had to do them, were actually probably the most enjoyable homework that I had this semester. With the freedom that we were given instead of stringent requirements like many other English classes use, I felt that my writing flowed much more naturally and I enjoyed it so much more. I also agree with your revisions point, I definitely found much use in looking back over my paper and finding areas that I had to work on.
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