Reflection for Portfolio

As I wrote my cover letter for my portfolio, it actually made me stop and think about the semester. In five days we will all officially be done with this class, and for some of us, done with English classes for the rest of our lives. And looking back on my past semester, I am very glad that I was put into this section of English 112. English has never been my favorite subject and I have always liked/been better at math and science. And if I am not good at something, there is a very good chance that I will not like it either. But as I wrote the cover letter and it asked what we would take away from this class and what we had learned this semester, I had to think before I was able to put it simply. I had learned many things throughout this class- making every writing piece personal, making a research essay interesting, how to transform a twelve page essay into a few bullet points, but after I looked at all the things that I had learned I realized that it all came back to me spending more time on each piece of writing. I do not like revising things. I would rather write it and be done with it. But taking the extra time while I am writing the initial piece and especially while I am revising, truly makes a piece that much better. Another big thing that I pulled out from writing the cover letter was that looking at an essay from the audience's point of view really helped my writing. Asking myself, would I take the time to read this? And if the question was no, then I knew that there was still work to be done on my essay. Although I feel that I went through these processes as the seamster went on, I did not consciously realize them until I wrote my cover letter.