Lessons Throughout the Semester

The main thing I learned from my work throughout the semester was how to properly organize my paper so that my paper had a coherent flow. The importance of properly organizing the information of your paper gives your paper a level of credibility that will allow your audience to trust the information that you are presenting to them. Transitional sentences were a major contribution to help with the organization of the paper so that the reader could understand the narrative of the paper. I primarily learned the importance of organization in writing assignments through discussions in my English 110 course. We discussed the organization of a paper not just on a wider spectrum regarding paragraphs, but the importance of transitions from a single sentence to the next. We spent 2 class periods doing activities where we needed to identify the proper order of transition sentences from a couple sample essays and then do a similar activity with our personal essays. It was a beneficial activity that certainly helped me realize the importance of fluency in a paper in simple, specific arrangements rather than vague, disconnecting structures.