I have learned a lot over this semester. I am sure that this course has help me become a better writer. I consider myself as not a good writer plus I don’t like writing. This course has been challenging and interesting. I have learned that I need to make more time and commitment to my papers to also help myself become a better writer. My experience has been different from high school writing from Writing 101 and frim Writing 102, learning in this writing class and learning in my other classes have a little connection but are also different, and the Writing 102 theme power and privilege is relatable to me and the world around me.

My high school writing and Writing 101 from last semester was different from this semester Writing 102. Last semester in Writing 101, I didn’t have a theme but this semester I did and it was power and privilege. While in high school, the writing was completely different from college writing. In high school, I didn’t write as much and most of the thing I’ve been writing in college I haven’t done before that I can remember. As the years of writing went by, it made me a better writer with every assignment. In this class, Writing 102, most of my writing was consistent because I kept making similar grades and I kept lacking in the same things. In my Synthesis and Researched Argument paper, I needed a stronger thesis as said from the feedback. When I revised the Researched paper, I made a better grade and gained extra points which is why I feel like each assignment helped me become a better writer and better in my weaknesses. In high school, writing was so easy which is probably why I struggle in it now. We barely wrote papers and coming into college writing, I felt unnprepared and I knew that I would struggle. For a daily write, I wrote about my strengths and weaknesses when writing a paper. (04/11/17) I think that these things are still the same but I have gotten better and I hope to continue to where I have no problems at all when writing a paper. When I do write a paper, peer review sometimes help when people are looking for mistakes and reading my paper trying to help. As I wrote for a daily write, I explained how it broadens my thoughts and lets me see the things I need to change. (02/09/17) Things were a lot different from high school writing and Writing 101 from Writing 102 but in a good way.

Learning in this writing class and learning in my other classes have a little connection. This writing class and my other classes are different because we don’t discuss the things going on with race in the world or gender roles, we just focus on what we are supposed to learn for that class only. For one class, we did see gender roles. The class was Theatre. We saw how it is somewhat the same from back then and now. We also talked about it in class and discussed how the gender roles affect lives. For one of the other writings we did for class that was in my CPB was about two sources and how women are depicted and how men see women. (Connections of the two sources) This was talked about in my writing class and shown and talked about in my theatre class. The other classes are chemistry, math, and psychology which we just focus on topics that are related to the subjects we are discussing or learning about in class. Learning in my writing class and learning in my other classes are different but benefits me in different ways.

The Writing 102 theme power and privilege is very relatable to me and the world around me. I am a black female so it is relatable me especially with some of the things we talked about in class like racism, gender roles, and discrimination. It also relates to me because I am a black female student at The University of Mississippi and here at Ole Miss there has been times where I was judged because of the color of my skin. The theme relates to the world around me because of all the things going on with the black race and the killing. Many African Americans are getting killed for looking like they’re up to no good or another person of another race feels threatened. For example, Trayvon Martin, who was an unarmed 18-year-old with a black hoodie, an Arizona, and Skittles walking home from the store. Another person of another race felt “threatened” by Trayvon. I can relate to this because I wonder if it would ever happen to my brother or any family member who could be walking home from school or from the store or anything. In my CPB for a CRQ, there was a quote that stood out to me about race and I talked about how it relates to me and the world around me and I also included Trayvon Martin and the racism still going on today. (CRQ 04/10) Also, many policemen are killing the black race because they also feel “threatened” so basically, they kill them first before someone of the black race could kill them first. For another example, Philando Castile, who was shot by a police officer when he told the officer that he has a license to carry and as he was reaching for it, he is shot. I wonder if it will ever happen to me or my family if any of us gets pulled over by a policeman. Another reason this theme was relatable to me is because I am a black female I may not get all the opportunities a white female or white male may get. In my CPB for a CRQ, there was a quote for the reading that was about a white male feeling more privileged to get a better job than McDonald’s. (CRQ 03/22) This is relatable because for example, if a white female and I are up for the same job and let’s just say I am more qualified for the job, I may not get it because of the color of my skin. This theme was very relatable to me and the world around me.

This writing course has helped me a lot. My experience from writing in high school and Writing 101 from Writing 102 was different but had some similarities, learning in this writing class and learning in my other classes had a little connection but was also different, and the power and privilege theme for this writing class was relatable to me and the world around me. I have learned a lot this semester in Writing. I have gotten better at writing but I still have some weaknesses to work on but later in my college years, I hope to not have a problem at all in writing a paper. I know I would become a better writer and will start to like writing once I know how to use my time wisely and make a commitment to complete a writing assignment/paper.