Writing 105 Top Five
When I signed up for Writing 105 I genuinely thought I would be writing essay after essay every week, just like I always had in English and writing courses, however, I was pleasantly surprised when I was greeted with one of the most useful courses I've ever taken. I learned too much for it all to be mentioned, but some lessons were more important than others when it came to improving my writing skills, as well as teaching me skills that will benefit me greatly in the future. Although it may seem like a broad topic, I believe I improved in no other area as much as I did with analysis. So many assignments this year incorporated analysis in one way or another, which led me to improve greatly in this area. Between the New Yorker Cover project, the Op-Doc assignment, and the Final Unit 2 Paper , analysis was incorporated into much of what we did. In the beginning of the year, I associated analysis with close reading and tedious work, however, as we progressed through Unit 2 and the re...
