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Kristianna Marie Uang

Professor Collins

ENGL 1301

4 May 2017

Reflective Essay

In the Spring 2017 semester I took ENGL 1301, which is Composition One and I had

professor Collins as my instructor. Professor Collins was recommend to me by a friend, and she

told me that professor Collins is a professor that is willing to help with any questions you have

with assignments and that she makes lectures fun and enjoyable. This semester felt longer than

any of my past semesters here at Alvin Community College. This was also the first semester that

I was having a hard time since I was also working on the days I have school on, the past

semesters I had work on the days I didnt have school. I took three classes this semester; besides

my composition one class I took Spch 1315, which is public speaking, and Govt 2306, which is

Texas Government. Having work on the same days I had classes I had to learn how to be

organize and prioritize my studies. Before taking composition one I hated writing because I was

just not good at it and I taught it was boring. Professor Collins taught me that writing can be

enjoyable and that writing is way we can put our thoughts into writing. This semester I learned

ratiocination and research through essay one and annotated bibliography.

Ratiocination, which was introduced at the very beginning of the semester with essay

one, is a way for me to edit my own paper. There are five steps in ratiocination. The first step is

to circle every to be verb in the paper, count it and try to lessen this number in half by either

changing the verb to livelier verbs, re-structuring the sentence, or combining sentences. Second
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step is to use a highlighter to highlight the first word of every sentence in the paper. If there are

any patterns, they can be change by varying the beginning of the sentences by changing the

nouns to pronouns, combining sentences, or rearranging the sentences. Third step is to highlight

every other sentence in your paper. This step will help me determine how long my sentences are.

One line or less would be a short sentence, one to two lines is considered to be a medium

sentence and a long sentence would be greater than two typed lines. Fourth step is to find any

dead words in my writing and to cross them out. Examples of dead words are very, really got,

get, stuff, a lot, many, just, good, and bad. The final step is to draw a triangle around the

pronouns in my writing. Circling the pronouns will check if the pronouns used in the sentence

are clear to the reader. After doing all five steps I have successfully edited my paper.

Ratiocination helped me with my writings during the course of the semester because even before

bring a draft to class I would already know what to edit out before having my paper peer

reviewed.

Annotated bibliography helped be through my research for my academic writing.

Annotated bibliographies are written to summarize a large amount of research and make it more

manageable. It contains three parts citation, annotation and analysis. Citation is the entry on the

works cited page, annotation contains notes and summary of the text, and analysis is the

strengths and weaknesses of the source including where and if I will use the information in my

essay. Learning how to do an annotated bibliography help me organize my research in which also

helped with writing my essays since it made my essays more organized.

Having learned ratiocination and how to do proper research through annotated

bibliographies I will be able to be a better writer by having papers with small grammar mistakes,
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if any and more organized. This will also help me achieve higher grades in my classes that

require any writings.

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