Letter to Laura Cline

Bree Hubbard

ENG102

1 April 2012

Dear Laura Cline,

It is crazy that the semester is already halfway done.  It was nice to be able to take your class again; I enjoy your way of teaching.  Some of my challenges in English just in general are trying to get my paper started, but that has always been my issue.  Then I realize that my thoughts are just scattered throughout my paper.  This is probably because when I do start my papers, I start writing my body paragraphs.  With this in mind, I tried to work on it this semester of English. Trying to get my introduction paragraph written before I start scattering my ideas throughout the paper has allowed me to really try to organize my papers.

The different types of readings were a very intriguing. Winter’s Bone was interesting due to the facts that it was an action/thrill-seeking book. Wanting to know what happened next kept me interested into the book.  The other readings were harder to read because I am not so familiar with the older English.  Bartleby and The Modest Proposal were very fascinating, don’t get me wrong, but it took me some research later to really understand what I was trying to read.  I enjoyed the plots of both and it was an experience to read.  Then barely touching Up in the Air has got me hooked already.  

Another struggle for me was that the paper topics required more analysis, but it was a great challenge. I am used to doing research papers or just persuasive essays, but not on books.  I think literary analysis is pretty much like a persuasive essay, trying to prove a point about something in the book. 

My goals through the rest of the semester are trying to keep up on the assignments and hopefully bring my grade up to an A.  Another thing I would like to improve on is my citing; in-text just doesn’t stick with me.  I hope to get out of this class is how to be able to write papers for my other classes.  Since this may be my last English class, I will still have to papers to write and hopefully I will be able to take this knowledge with me to those classes.

Thank you so much for this opportunity,

Bree Hubbard.