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Cody Jenkins

Professor Moore

English 1302

3 May 2017

The Adventure of Writing

This semester has been a good ride. It feels good to say I am completely comfortable with

my writing skills and I can see the difference between now and last semester. Not going to lie

though, coming into this class at the beginning of the semester I was nervous. I knew Honors

was going to be difficult, but I am very proud of myself for pushing through and putting in the

time and effort to make beautiful and interesting essays. The writing was so much fun to me, I

think because I was able to write about what I am passionate about. This semester, my class had

a lot of freedom in choosing our topics, which I loved! Commas, and being specific in my essays

in Honors Composition II categorizes the most common errors in my writing.

The most common error in my writing was surprisingly commas. For some reason at first

I could not wrap my head around correct comma placement. What really screwed me up was

determining if I should do a comma after and or not. My friend in class Bailey LaBauve did

excellent work and was very helpful in analyzing my essays and doing peer reviews. When she

analyzed my rhetorical analysis essay, she noticed in one of my sentences I had originally written

it. This not only affect Greenland and the West Antarctic but the whole word (Jenkins). She

explained to me the correct format of that sentence would be This not only affects Greenland,

and the West Antarctic (Jenkins). After further peer review of this essay, Bailey helped me

determine ultimately how to correctly use comma placement throughout my entire essay and my

future essays.
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The next error I had trouble with was being specific. Meaning that I did not correctly

label some subjects in my sentences. For instance, in my solution essay I had written, They also

threaten the native fish and fishing industries throughout these rivers (Jenkins). After Kaylee

Blair peer reviewed my essay she explained this to me and it made perfect sense. After

witnessing this error, I completely revised the sentence and written it Sometime around the

1990s they escaped through major flooding and infiltrated the Mississippi river (Jenkins). My

goal in revising the sentence was instead of saying they and these, I would change they to

Carp and change these to Mississippi river. Another example was in my rhetorical

analysis. In this essay I wrote about Leonardo DiCaprios environmental protection speech to the

United Nations. I wrote one of my sentences, In Leos speech, he used various examples to

highlight some of the effects climate change has on the Earth (Jenkins). After Bailey LaBauve

peer reviewed my essay, she explained to me that instead of Leo I need to use his last name. So

I then revised the sentence to, In DiCaprios speech, he used various examples to highlight

some of the effects climate change has on the Earth (Jenkins). Being specific to my subjects in

my sentences definitely benefited me in my writing skills.

Overall, this semester was a blast. I would not have been able to do so well if I was not in

this class. The way the course is outlined, and the helpful, peaceful nature of the classroom made

writing stress free and fun.