A Brief Introduction
Dear Reader, At the beginning of this year I did not know what to expect for my senior year of high school English and over this course I have grown as a writer and learned more than I expected. This course taught me how powerful language can be and how it can be used to link individuals through the story telling of the human condition. I’ve acquired new skills that will be useful in future college courses and have applied the things we review in class, in my writing pieces. For example a useful technique I learned to use in my advantage has been summarizing. This taught me how to quickly and effectively find the main idea and key points of an article in order to make it into a thesis. I have learned to narrow down an argument and analyze supporting evidence with much more ease than before. This new skill will allow me to quickly organize and express my by breaking down the argument into the most basic information. In the past I have not been able to connect English ...