Reflective Essay

I am a biology major. Why do I have a subject like this? 

Englcom has been one of the stressful yet interesting subjects I have encountered in 2nd semester. It taught me how to think, how to analyze, how to observe, and how to understand problems. In short, Englcom taught me everything I need to learn not just about writing, but also thinking.

I used to love writing essays and reading books written in English back when I was in high school. In fact, I joined our school's English club and became the class president and an Executive board officer. English has been my favorite subject, but sadly it changed when I encountered Englcom. Hassle. Daming essays. was the first thing I said on our first day of classes. I never thought that Englcom would make me hate my favorite subject. At first, I only see English as a fun and interesting course. I do not know that it requires lots of paper works and essays to do. I do not even know what media log is. That is how I started hating Englcom. Weeks passed and we became busy doing essays and different ways of writing articles like paraphrasing and summarizing. I somehow get along with the concept although at times I still can not make proper and good essay like how my blockmates do. That has been my misconception about Englcom. It also has been my difficulties when I wrote my extended definition and argumentative essay. I cannot think of what to write or how to start my essay. It usually takes me about 3-4 hours of doing an essay. One time, our RVLC professor, Ms Gonzalo, told us that writing do not need lots of thinking. A key to a good and satisfying essay is to write and write whatever pops out into your mind. And after you have jot down everything, that is when the revising and editing comes. After I heard that, everything in my mind went blank. But after I received the topic, lots of information pop out in my mind and I wrote them all, and Miss was right! In fact, I even got a 90+ from our media log and a satisfying grade from our WC. And in terms of editing, I learned how to paraphrase and summarize paragraphs to avoid plagiarism. In line with this, I believe that all the things I learned from my professors had helped me in improving my exit essay. I learned the proper usage of subject verb agreement, and even learned about APA format.

Englcom is not just a subject for English majors. We, the Biology students, need Englcom as well especially for our thesis. I realized that Englcom is not just about thinking hard on what words to use, it is also for using your own imagination and own words, reflect and write them, edit and it is done.