Journal Reflection Essay #1

Hello, my name is Isaiah Thomas.  I am a freshman here at Old Dominion University and my major is Dental Hygiene.  In my university 150 english class i feel like my status of writing skills has been good so far and i feel like i need to do a little bit more on my essays by improving on my subjct verb agreements.  I feel like i need to do more practice on my grammar in order for me to become a better writer.  My progress of the first five weeks in this course has been averge by the first essay that we did in the first couple of weeks.

In the process of me going to study hall for the first five weeks has been very awful, l have not been going to study hall at all for the first five weeks of the semester.  In the process of me doing the chapter quizzes this semester was awful as well because i have not been doing them at all.  I regret not doing my chapter quizzes because it made my grade go down a lot. In my essays for the first five weeks i have been doing really good because i been so used to typing and writing essays back in high school.

The status of me participating in peer review for the essays has been fair because when i was helping revising the mistakes on other student’s essays, there weren’t that many mistakes that i found to be fixed.  The things i need to improve on in my essay writing is having to organize all of my major details in the thesis statements and making my points make clearer.

In the pertinent points that i was dicussing at the individual student and teacher conference was that i wanted to improve my reasoning skills and provide more details in my paragraphs in my essay.