My journey in ENGLCOM! :)

State competencies in reading and writing in English acquired/honed through ENGLCOM. What areas/weaknesses have you improved on? Were your expectations (the ones you stated in the entrance reflective essay) met? Do you think the course has helped you achieved your goals? Explain.

When I was still in my frosh year – second term, some of our block mates are already taking up ENGLCOM. They were telling us their different perspectives through their experiences in their class. I heard both negative and positive opinions, but people are more on the positive side. With that in mind, I was afraid, at the same time excited when I found out that we will be taking ENGLCOM for the following term.

I can say that ENGLCOM is one of the classes I think I have improved on. I write and read better now compared before. I even use deep words every now and then, which I am not even familiar with before taking up this class. As I was browsing through my essays and blogs, I noticed the improvements I make in every essays I have submitted. In this class, I learned how to create an outline with my ideas properly to produce nice essays and was able to distinguish the difference between topic sentences and thesis statements.

Taking up this course, I found out that we should be giving importance not to only to the writer, but as well as to the reader. I use to believe that writing is as simple as expressing ones self and write about anything under the sun that pops out of your mind. Everything changed when I took up this course. There are more to writing than just expressing anything and everything. Writers should also think about the person who they are writing to, and they should adjust to the culture of the readers as well.

I can say that this course helped me achieve my goals when it comes to both writing and reading. Every meeting, I attained to learn different and new things to excel. I can say that after every ENGLCOM class, I became better when it comes to my writing and reading, and it is very fulfilling to know that I, myself, is improving.