M.+Course+Reflection

“Practice makes perfect,” said Lionel’s mom as he grumbled about the lack of skill he possessed while playing soccer as a child. He never thought he would amount to anything good in life. Sixteen years later, Lionel Andres Messi was nominated the FIFA player of the year. Messi was not good at soccer as a child, but through the support of others around him he learned and bloomed into the most amazing soccer player of all time. In most areas in life a person can strive to become more powerful. In the beginning of the year I was a writer of a subordinate level. My grammar used to be awful and my vocabulary was minute. But through the teaching of my extraordinary instructor I promptly learned how to become an improved author. Theses are a major part of a well written paper. I quickly discovered how to create a detailed thesis.  At the start of the year I was a decent writer. I was easily able to create a paper out of nothing. Along with that, I was sophisticated with my creation of factual essays. Those compositions were easy for me to research and put together into a detailed and well organized piece. As a whole I was an excellent English student; it was just the small things that held me down.  Prior to the teachings of my extraordinary English teacher, I was poor at spelling and my vocabulary was boring. However, she hastily taught me how to improve upon these things. In my 11th grade English class we learned many new words. Additionally, we learned the meanings of these words and how to spell them as we took a spelling test each week. My word usage has definitely surpassed my prior usage within my past. In addition, I learned to no longer use contractions when creating a paper of any sort.  My favorite piece of work is the narrative essay that I wrote in March. I really enjoyed writing this piece; mainly because I got to share a personal story in my life. Also, the story was brilliantly written and built well. My least favorite paper is the persuasive research essay. This is because research essays, for the most part, look awful in the future. Since topics are expanded upon, every time a person researches a topic there is always further information in that particular topic. So no matter what, whenever I write a research paper, I am unsatisfied in the future.  Although I liked some papers and disliked some of them, it was really useful to have them on a wiki. When I have made a portfolio in the past, the portfolio was always made with paper. Those are difficult to make changes to and they are more complicated to make look nice. When on a wiki, I am able to change things up by simply editing them. Wikispaces is a tremendously useful site.  Over the past year, I have learned how to become a more potent writer. While I was a decent writer, my teacher has taught me several useful things. After learning these things, I had to practice them. There is no other way to get better. After all, practice makes perfect.