final reflection

My name is Sam Garcia, and this is my blog.
 I have always struggled with English. My main goal when learning the language was being able to blend in by trying to speak without an accent. After i felt comfortable with my spoken word, i wanted to excel at writing in English. Dr. Wielgos has taught me a lot throughout the semester. With every paper i turned, he wrote what seemed like an endless amount of suggestions in the margins. At first i was upset. Throughout my academic career i have never had an instructor write so many comments on the margins. My previous instructors would usually just write the grade on top with very few suggestions. This time it was the opposite, i did not know the grade i had received on the paper. As I am typing this blog i still do not know my grade. Do i have an A? Do i have a B? Regardless, i cannot emphasis how much Dr. Wielgos taught me. It seemed like every paper i wrote the more methodical I thought about every sentence i wrote and where that sentence could take me. I am not the best writer in this class, but I have taken so much out of this course. Dr. Wielgo's class was a challenging one for me. It was by far the most difficult class i have had in my two semesters of college so far. I felt like Dr. Wielgos was trying to push me to do better at a pace where i felt i could keep up. This class made me feel like my tuition was being well spent.
        I was able to learn abilities other than writing as well. I was taught the importance of design in texts.  I was not aware of that in MLA you were not required to use times new roman font. You could whichever font you so desired. This seems like a small thing to learn, but to me in changed the way i wrote my papers. We also learned about serifs and other factors that goes into calligraphy and typography. 
     Another subject that i will always remember is the use of passive voice. I have always written in a passive voice without knowing it. It made my writing less authoritative than I intended it to be. I now make an effort to avoid to using a passive voice, not just in my writing courses but as well as my other courses.
   The skills i have learned in this class are skills that i can carry out outside of academia. In business write ups instead of paying someone to do it, i can do it myself once i become proficient enough.
    Overall, this is course i do not regret taking.  It was beyond difficult for me. I was never satisfied with my writing and i felt i could always improve it in some way. I felt like my writing was not good enough not just for a grade, but for myself.