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    Victoria Nanez reflects on how her English 1301 class helped improve her writing skills. She discusses how the class challenged her time management as her first fully online semester during COVID. Assignments like outlines and required tutoring helped her manage her time better. The class also helped her identify bias more easily in her writing and stay neutral. While she found many good sources for her essays, citing them correctly was a struggle at first. However, she now understands proper citation formats which will benefit her academically moving forward. Overall, she believes the class has helped boost her confidence and advanced her writing abilities.

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    Victoria Nanez reflects on how her English 1301 class helped improve her writing skills. She discusses how the class challenged her time management as her first fully online semester during COVID. Assignments like outlines and required tutoring helped her manage her time better. The class also helped her identify bias more easily in her writing and stay neutral. While she found many good sources for her essays, citing them correctly was a struggle at first. However, she now understands proper citation formats which will benefit her academically moving forward. Overall, she believes the class has helped boost her confidence and advanced her writing abilities.

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    Victoria Nanez reflects on how her English 1301 class helped improve her writing skills. She discusses how the class challenged her time management as her first fully online semester during COVID. Assignments like outlines and required tutoring helped her manage her time better. The class also helped her identify bias more easily in her writing and stay neutral. While she found many good sources for her essays, citing them correctly was a struggle at first. However, she now understands proper citation formats which will benefit her academically moving forward. Overall, she believes the class has helped boost her confidence and advanced her writing abilities.

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    Victoria Nanez reflects on how her English 1301 class helped improve her writing skills. She discusses how the class challenged her time management as her first fully online semester during COVID. Assignments like outlines and required tutoring helped her manage her time better. The class also helped her identify bias more easily in her writing and stay neutral. While she found many good sources for her essays, citing them correctly was a struggle at first. However, she now understands proper citation formats which will benefit her academically moving forward. Overall, she believes the class has helped boost her confidence and advanced her writing abilities.

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    Victoria Nanez

    Professor Massie

    English 1301

    9 May 2021

    Reflective Essay

    Evaluating oneself work is not always easy because it requires complete honesty. However, I see

    the importance of it because you start to spot errors and see the progression at the same time.

    Reflecting on my writing skills goes deeper than just this class. I can remember struggling in

    high school telling myself I would never go to college. Therefore, my improvement throughout

    this semester has been exciting. Although there were difficulties, this class has helped to improve

    my time management skills, ability to spot bias, and cite sources correctly.

    Surprisingly, my time management skills were probably challenged the most in this class. Due to

    covid, this was my first semester fully online, so learning how to manage time for each class was

    difficult. In addition, as much as I enjoy writing, I always have a difficult time getting started. I

    could stare at a blank page trying to form the perfect sentences for hours. I found that

    assignments in this class like essay outlines and required tutoring made it easier to work on my

    essays. This helped me tremendously because I did not have to spend hours forming perfect

    sentences at the last minute.

    Spotting bias in the media became almost natural after the first two essays in this class.

    Analyzing The Fentanyl Drug Epidemic in North America taught me how to spot bias even if I

    agree with what is being said. In addition, it taught me how important it is to include both

    positive and negative facts when writing an informative essay. Also, the documentary analysis

    essay helped me to stay neutral when my own writing. This, I found to be challenging because it
    is not always easy to keep your opinions to yourself in certain topic. Ultimately, essay one

    greatly prepared me for essay two.

    Obviously, my in-text citation were my biggest flaw in essay two. I was able to find many great

    websites with quality information about my topic. However, it was a struggle finding the authors

    of these websites. Therefore, majority of my in-text citations for essay were done incorrectly. In

    example, in essay two I wrote “Fentanyl is another form of opioid used for pain management.

    This form is usually prescribed in lozenges or a skin patch and is fifty to one-hundred times more

    potent than morphine (www.cdc.gov).” Notice that my in-text citation should have been written

    out like (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Moving forward, knowing how to

    correctly cite my sources will benefit me academically.

    In conclusion, every hardship and struggle I faced in this class has helped me grow

    professionally, personally, and academically. Each assignment has boasted my writing

    confidence beyond my belief. I believe my struggles helped to build my understanding of bias,

    informing, and organizing. This class has helped me advance my writing skills and I will be able

    to use these strategies seamlessly in my academic and professional career. Overall, I have greatly

    improved my writing skills by improving my time management skills, ability to identify bias,

    and correctly citing my sources.

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