Course Reflection

I feel like over the course of this semester, my writing has improved a lot. I started off with a high school mentality writing, a systematic way to write essays but I feel like I've developed a creative style to write in. I am able to take two completely different essays on different topics and still connect them to make up my own claim. I am not going to lie, I did struggle in the beginning and there was a lot of frustration when writing my essays trying to get it right, but I feel like at this point I have figured out how to write a creative essay thanks to of course Professor Kelly and the NHR. I feel like a strong aspect people may miss too is the impact the NHR has on one's writing. Reading the essays in the NHR, helped show me how other people and authors wrote complex well-written essays. The NHR gives various examples of essays with interesting topics and exhibits an accurate way for people to write. I came into Rutgers with an amateur  style of writing and the Expos style of writing was something new to me and to adjust to it was a bit of difficulty but I could say my writing has certainly matured since the beginning of the semester. I got to the point where I actually liked writing essays which is a bit of shocker to even myself since I am a math and science guy who always dreaded writing essays. This course gave me a new outlook on writing essays and now I feel the drive to continue even after this course finishes.