A Review of English Composition II

The end of my first college semester is coming to a close, and to say that I'm thrilled would be an understatement. I cannot wait until I get to spend a month home for the holidays with my family and friends! However, there are a still a few matters of business that I need to finish. As I finish up my capstone project for English Composition II, I am finally able to reflect on the class as a whole. Did I enjoy it? Did I learn from it? How could it have been better? These are all questions I asked myself.

First off, I can honestly say that I have not really enjoyed english classes since they started moving away from the elementary creative writing. English and writing have always been one of my weak points, and I have never really had the desire to work that hard when it comes to my writing. With that being said, I cannot say that I dreaded English Composition II. The class focused on an interesting and modern topic—social media. This made the class more intriguing than just an average language arts class, but it wasn't nearly enough to make me love the class. There were days I would ask myself, "Why did I come to class?" Then I would remember that attendance was often took, so I guess it's best that I always showed up.

When I came to this class, I was hoping to improve my rating to the quality it once had. I truly believe that I did my best writing as a junior in high school, and then my writing skills decreased as a senior. This was due to a change in teacher from my junior to senior year, but I won't get into that. I was hoping this class would get my writing back up to its old standard, but that just did not happen. An activity that may have helped my writing would be in class writing activities or journals. I realize that blogging is a form of journaling, but I believe that just sitting down with a pen and paper and writing for forty minutes really helps improve anyone's writing. I would have liked to see more of that in this class—especially on days where we hardly did anything.

Overall, this was a slightly above average class. I would not say it was spectacular, but at the same time, it wasn't horrible. My professor was definitely an interesting woman who is knowledgable in many areas. She wasn't one of the greatest language arts teachers I've ever hard, but she wasn't bad. I learned a few tricks from her and this class, so I guess it was a success. It wasn't as good as I was hoping for, but not bad.