Finally, it's time to the end of this semester. I would say thanks to my english instructor Crystal Bock. She is a very nice instructor with high responsibility. Since this is my last semester here, so I put more time into job stuff. So I struggled with heavy homework of this class whole semester. However, I found that I do learn and improve a lot under this high pressure at this point.
Through this semester, the key point to pass this class is that I made several appointment with my instructor when I feel struggling on the homework. It's extremely helpful to talk with her. Every time, I would get some good ideas from her to finish my essay. Compare with the beginning of this semester, my writing improved a lot. Before this semester, I didn't write any research paper before. This is the reason why I was struggling on every essay. For research essay, It's very hard to get all evidence that you need. I took ton of time to gather those evidence every time. Now, I learned how to write a research essay and how to find evidences. I can't believe that I could write more than 1200 words in one class, but I really did this. This is amazing to me. Like what I said, I didn't put too much attention on this class and missed a lot of deadline. If I would have enough time, I'd like to put more attention into this class, and I am confident that I would do a much better job than what I did so far with instructor's help.
In this class, we really did a lot of practices on critical reading and writing. It pushed us to read those essays carefully since we need to answer these questions. Like my instructor said, pressure helps people improve, my reading also improved a lot because of those practices. Through those essays and practice questions, I learned a lot of strategies on how to writing a research essays.
Overall, this is a hard semester and this class is a hard class to me. However, I do improve a lot through this semester. I have to admit that I couldn't improve so much without the high pressure from my instructor. So, thanks to my instructor again.
