The degree of your success in life will equal the degree of your hard work in school. College will open doors and brighten my future only if I continue to pursue it. Therefore I should try put 100 percent in all my classes. As evaluation day has come in all my classes, it is now time for me to evaluate myself for this class. In English 101, I believe I have improved on my writing skills, used new ideas that changed my way of writing and took skills that will help me in my future English classes.

This semester my main goal was to adapt and be able to follow the different requirements English professors look for. In high school we used the basic format; introduction, body and conclusion. In college there was no limit. I feel that with the material and techniques taught in this class I have learned to express more information and opinions and how to do it the right way. In my papers I now try to state facts instead of my opinion to be more credible.

Learning the different types of arguments and how to create one yourself was very new to me. I have written a persuasive essay before but never ones that had to fit Dr. Stolley requirements. In order to have a successful argument you must have different elements of an argument. Project 4 is where we used all the elements to create our own argument. Learning and being able to break down an argument has increased my writing skills. My writing has become more open  and is tackling issues.

I believe that the techniques I learned from this course and Dr. Stolley will help me in other courses as well as different environments.  I now know different and effective strategies that will help me with future essays, just not argumentative. I can use the strategies I learn can provide more details to an analysis or to a free write. I now believe I can hold good and efficient arguments with others because I have learned more than one way of tackling an issue.

Overall, I believe this class was very effective. I walked in with little knowledge and walked out with techniques and strategies that have improved my writing. Although, I did not complete every assignment or attend every class I feel as if I was able to keep up. The course website was a very good way to stay updated and I did. If I could take this class all over I would not change a thing but my attendance and performance.