Introduction

There are many things that I expect from this course such as furthering my knowledge and skills as a writer. I think I could always use more grammar and punctuation guides, but also a deeper way of looking at novels and stories. Using Shakespeare and Macbeth as examples. There are also so many techniques to use when your creating a story or writing an argumentative essay that it would be helpful to also become better at that.

I feel as though my biggest strength in English is being able to put my thoughts into an organized essay as well as digging up facts to support my own words. I have gotten great grades on the essays that I have completed in the past and hopefully more in the future. But even though I have become very good at writing essays I could always become better at my format and general focus on one topic. This is my introduction to an essay that I did just a few weeks ago about Reproductive Rights:
"A woman’s right to choose is one of the most important freedoms that a woman can have. Being able to make an emotional decision about your own body is crucial to our privacy. It should not be the decision for a room full of strangers, who will most likely never have to deal with such a situation. Roe vs. Wade is a controversial Supreme Court case in 1973 that challenged the right for a woman to receive an abortion. Most laws before this case that were pro-life violated a constitutional rights to privacy under the fourteenth amendment. So the decision was made that it was the woman’s right to choose, and it should stay that way."

Although I am pretty strong in the Essay department, my weakness in English is definitely reading and understanding sonnets well enough to apply the reading to an assignment. It's extremely hard for me to understand the language that they used back then and the way they wrote as well. Poetry was never a strong point but it is something that I am willing to work on and become better at. I don't have any proof of my weakness in poetry but that fact that I'm taking this class again should be proof enough that I still have things that I could improve. :)