What kind of self-reflection experiences did you have in your freshman English
class? What have you learned (related to self-reflection or writing in general) that
has stayed with you and supported your writing?

 Self-reflection is an important part of improving anyone’s writing journey. It ensures a writer’s progressive improvement and helps them analyze and learn from their mistakes. Throughout my academic life, I have done numerous self-reflection writings in middle school and high school and it has sophisticated and developed my writing style tremendously. Although I have not taken Freshmen English composition class, in this essay I would like to reflect back to the self-reflection experiences I had in my AP English Composition class in high school.

During my English composition class, my high school teacher was a profound supporter of student presentations. So, we used to have semi-weekly concentrated group sessions, where we used to share our work with our classmates and receive feedback. The feedback helped both the reviewer and the writer to understand the material and writings from different perspectives. I would gather other students’ feedback and writing techniques to develop my writing in the future. The sessions worked as a self-reflection for me. When I was sharing out loud with my peers, I was able to find scrutinies and grammar errors in my writing that I missed when I wrote it the first time. The method of collecting creative ideas from other’s feedback and writings has supported me throughout that class and is something I still hold on to. Furthermore, sharing my writing helped me be more cautious about the rhetoric and the language I used, and I found many potential areas of improvement in my future writings. I believe peer review, combined with the writer’s own critiques is a crucial part of self-reflection.