ENC1101

I took ENC1101 this past summer, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. When I registered for the class I knew that I was going to be doing a lot of witting. I have never really liked writing papers. In high school, we usually didn’t have much freedom in terms of writing because everything we wrote was based on boring topics. Plus, everything was a 5 paragraph essay. In ENC1101, we learned that not everything had to be a 5 paragraph essay. In fact, barely anything that we write in college will be the traditional 5 paragraph essay. During those 6 weeks, we wrote 3 papers, and each paper had 3 drafts each. We also had online journals on fun crazy topics, and in class journals about some reading assignments that she had given us. Our three papers were the crots paper, a position shift paper, and a significant personal experience paper. Although the crots paper was something that I had never done, which was pretty cool, my favorite paper was the position shift paper. I enjoyed this paper because we got to pick a movie or book and tell the story through the perspective of another character. I chose Aladdin and told the story through Jafar’s perspective.
Writing 3 drafts was something that was new to me too, because in high school I would always leave everything for the night before. Even though writing 3 drafts might make me a better writer, I feel that when I am assigned another paper in the future, that I will still leave it for the last minute. I don’t like writing when I have to follow guidelines and write about boring topics that I have no interest in. ENC1101 taught me that in college we have a lot more freedom in our writing, which I hope is true. Overall, I enjoyed taking ENC1101. My class had a great group of people that made the class fun and interesting.