Robert Morales
Self-assessment essay
Professor Meeker
May 21st 2026
Self-assessment
Overall my experience with the class can be described as one heck of a journey. In the beginning, asking for every single class that I take in college I feel like a very nerve-wracking sensation. I usually just assume the worst whenever I’m taking or starting a new class for the first time but throughout the entire process I felt like I got more comfortable and I was able to really settle in and be myself when it comes to my writing style. Starting out we had these objectives and these objectives are set off like goalsFor us a student that we have to keep track of and really see how we’re improving and setting these goals. I would say that overall there has been an improvement in a few of the objectives that the professor has set for the class as a whole. The vast majority of the objectives were basically like engagement or like how you engage in gender analysis or engage in library databases and how you engage and paraphrase sources and engage with your classmates. I feel as an overall My overall engagement of the objectives for the class is mostly based around I feel like there has been an improvement of those engagements.
I would say my biggest struggles would be figuring out what I’m doing wrong. I say this because like when I would write an essay I would try to reference the readings and I would genuinely feel like I am doing my part in terms of the structure of the textbooks that they want me to do but for some reason I feel like something is missing from my writing. I feel like I’ve improved to a certain extent but there’s a cap to my thing and maybe it could be a situation where I need to reread the books and improve but I would say going back and revising my Works definitely would be my biggest struggle. I would say my biggest strength is the collaboration aspect in terms of engaging with my classmates whenever we would do something like a peer review or a project that involves the formulation of questions as we did with the Machado series of stories. I would say that it was my biggest strength because I was there in the group settings to collaborate and understand new perspectives. I never really argued with anybody when they had criticism of my work or because I know my writing and my work overall isn’t perfect. As much as I love my point of view and my perspective, I know my point of view in the way I view the world isn’t the end all be all when it comes to English literature writing and Etc. I felt like I already knew how to write an essay but having a textbook like the one that the professor gave us basically gave us an encyclopedia on writing and grammar and sentence structure. It is an incredibly valuable resource when it comes to being able to write an essay. But reading through all the readings it really all comes back to one question that I have as a whole. What is writing? Or how do you really write an essay? Is everything from what I learned when it comes to knowing and developing the intricacies of what it means to write a piece of work or are there more things to be discovered? That to me is a very loaded question and even after these past few months of being a part of the class it can be talked about. and to be honest based on the way you can frame the question it was almost like a very philosophical question to ask you know? I feel like I can take numerous English classes. I dont think I can really find the answer to what is being a proficient writer or what does it mean to write? Overall I would say throughout this entire process I had ups and downs, strengths and weaknesses, weaknesses in terms of reviewing my work seeing what I did wrong and improving but strength and collaboration engagement and overall with genre analysis I feel like I contributed to class discussion as a whole.
