Post 08: This Semester's Learning

    During this English semester, I've learned all about critical thinking and rhetoric, formatting, and citing my sources. I've also learned about freedom of expression in my writing, and how my college-level essays can drift away from specific rules that were established in high school, like the restriction of never being able to utilize the first person. Out of everything, I feel that the most important thing I've learned is how to use MLA formatting to properly cite my sources. MLA formatting is something that I will need to know in many of my future college courses. Many professors will likely find it integral that I am able to use it and being able to correctly will only benefit me in the future. The least important thing I learned in this class is that I can take certain liberties with my papers. This is not the least important because it's useless, but because everything else seems so important by comparison. I only single this topic out because I don't think many professors will mind that your format and rhetorical choices are relatively uniform, so long as you get your point across and properly support it with evidence and explanations.