Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Blog Post #9 Reflection #2

Reflection #2

When observing the scores of my quizzes with the re-testing, I am able to see that I demonstrate mastery of a 100% with all subjects. These subjects range from the sentence structure, itself, to the parts in a sentence, such as subject, verb, and pronoun usage. This result of complete mastery depicts to me that I have the ability to apply these concepts into my future writings.

The most relevant idea that I am able to perceive from this experience is that I have gained the ability to put the sum of the parts (noun, verb, and pronoun usage) into a whole (sentence structure).  However, the most interesting aspect of this experience was the methodology I used to obtain mastery for all subjects in the grammar quizzes; I would look at each part of the sentence in an abstract manner. I would take each building block such as subject-verb agreement and observe if there is any mistake with it. Afterwards, I put the sentence together and would find the correct structure when it came to the fragment, coordination, and run-on exercises. Initially, my first time taking these quizzes, I looked at all aspects as a whole without dissecting each section of the sentence. Now I see the importance in breaking the whole into a sum of parts.

I have learned the importance of how all components of a sentence such as noun, verb, and pronoun can make a complete thought or idea. In addition to the idea of grammar, I have also learned to use the tools such as OWL Purdue more effectively when it came to learning grammar. After this experience, I have set new long-term goals as an English student. I now carry the goal of being an effective proofreader as well as a writer. Ultimately, I learned that writing takes patience to put the skills together. 

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