Reflection

ENG1213-20

Hannah Baskin 

ENG1213-20

Professor Hammet 

Reflective Essay 

May 9, 2024

Word Count: 336

 

Reflective Essay

I started this class as a senior in high school with no prior AP-level English classes and just a Comp 1 class. I was very nervous since English has never been my best or favorite. Through this class, I had to write multiple college-level essays. While doing these I was able to advance in my skills and learn more about social epidemics. 

My first essay prompt was to write about a social epidemic and find solutions. The topic I chose was depression. At first, I did not know how to go about it. I was stressing out because I did not know what a solution could be. After I took some time to research more in-depth on the topic of depression, I was able to find there are plenty of solutions I could write about. I was able to write the paper and use the best of my knowledge and credible sources. It is safe to say my paper was not completely perfect, but I felt good about it. I had some errors in the essay but was given the opportunity to correct them.

I felt like I learned quite a bit from “The Plague” literary analysis essay. I have not written many lit analysis essays in the past so this one did scare me. I learned more about the character Dr. Bernard Rieux, how the plague affected him, and what he did during that hardship. I strengthen my skills and learned more about how to write college level essays.

Over the course of this class, I was able to learn more about the solutions to depression and spread awareness, how to better write and understand college-level essays, and how to better write a literary analysis. I am very grateful my school offers concurrent classes and that I was allowed to take the courses I did. In the future, I hope I can gain more knowledge on college-level essays. I am glad I got the experience from this class to help me further in the future.