Reflection Essay
Torki Altawari
Professor Santosh Khadka
English113B
13 May 2016
Reflection Essay
English is a language that has been of my interest since a very long time. I was fascinated by the way different authors write and talk and always thought that one day I would also be able to write. Being able to travel me always was confused how people would be able to talk extremely fluently and at the same time would be able to understand anything that anyone tells without having hesitation. I think that taking English 113B provided me with an opportunity of being able to write properly and talk as well as read properly and the credit goes to Professor Khadka and his constant initiative of being close to students and understand their problems.
Language is an important thing that one needs to learn in life. It is this language that makes a person better even if he has talent. I never thought that language would play an important role in developing a person. I always did not take English language as a serious thing and thought that I would not need it. Many of my friends back in Kuwait went to different language classes and I always wondered why. But after landing in the United States, I realized the fact that language is a must.
With my personal experience I saw that language is a must. I personally love cars and especially love tuning them. After coming to here to Los Angeles, this is widely known for upgrading cars and tuning them to limits, made me to go to a garage. Usually in Kuwait, it is like a person just calls and orders parts for the car and then it is delivered directly to the garage and the person starts fixing it. It was something that was totally new to me as here we had to go to the garage first and then request for the person to have a look at the car and then would be given a list then would have to go to the parts shop and purchase it. This entire process was something new to me and especially explaining the mechanic what exactly I wanted in the car was extremely challenging as I constantly had to open the Google Translator to explain the way I wanted the parts to fit. I realized that after this experience it is a must for me to improve my communication skills that would indeed help me in the future. I also came to know that the language barrier was something that was like interfering my creativity and the way I wanted something to be done on the car, I was unable to tell the mechanic how exactly and it led me to become angry.
Professor Khadka, in the class has helped a lot. I think that teaching a new language is an extremely difficult job, but the professor has made it very convincing and in an extremely friendly manner. Another important thing that I learnt about writing is how I should cite my sources and also how I should be able to do it in MLA format. As it is important to show what I have done to the professor and also to the readers that are going to read the essay, like it can be understood by doing so that nothing is copy and pasted from the internet but instead it is referred to. Also I got to know that doing this MLA format would help my last name be on every page which is extremely important. TheMLA citation has helped me a lot in the essays, as I was taught a different way to cite sources in school, but the MLA citation gives out complete message about the source and is much easier to access in order to verify the source. It not only has made me feel interested in research subjects but also has made me develop keen interest in different topics like car tuning, the turbo related things etc. This would definitely help in me using this type of researches ahead if I would like to prove a point and show that a person who is defending himself is wrong. I would highly recommend my friends to take the class with this professor as I was completely satisfied and felt encouraged.
The class started with a challenge that I had to write many things and at the same time read different things. I always thought that understanding the organization in an essay is a really important thing because it makes the audience curious to know about what I am trying to tell in a really nice way. For doing this I got to know that I have to construct a really good thesis because thesis is a really important thing when it comes in writing and at the same time it makes me to think how I would deliver the entire message of the essay in just one sentence. It is so important that I always failed in the beginning, but with the help of professor, I got to know how it should be constructed.
In conclusion, I think that using the techniques explained by Professor Khadka and implementing them in my life would attain success. He has taken an initiative to actually understand the students and make sure that what they are doing is good. Constant appreciation by the professor has made me feel really confident about my work and the way he rectifies an error also builds a confidence. I also feel that his class has made me realize and work on the areas that were weak to me and I really like the prompts given by him. They are extremely interesting subject and also have a lot of meaning to it. Giving subjects to write on that are trending and on real world problems is very important because it allows the student to understand and relate to what he was being taught and what he is doing on daily basis. I really liked this class and take back many things that I have learnt from it and would use them in the future projects that I would be doing.
Professor Santosh Khadka
English113B
13 May 2016
Reflection Essay
English is a language that has been of my interest since a very long time. I was fascinated by the way different authors write and talk and always thought that one day I would also be able to write. Being able to travel me always was confused how people would be able to talk extremely fluently and at the same time would be able to understand anything that anyone tells without having hesitation. I think that taking English 113B provided me with an opportunity of being able to write properly and talk as well as read properly and the credit goes to Professor Khadka and his constant initiative of being close to students and understand their problems.
Language is an important thing that one needs to learn in life. It is this language that makes a person better even if he has talent. I never thought that language would play an important role in developing a person. I always did not take English language as a serious thing and thought that I would not need it. Many of my friends back in Kuwait went to different language classes and I always wondered why. But after landing in the United States, I realized the fact that language is a must.
With my personal experience I saw that language is a must. I personally love cars and especially love tuning them. After coming to here to Los Angeles, this is widely known for upgrading cars and tuning them to limits, made me to go to a garage. Usually in Kuwait, it is like a person just calls and orders parts for the car and then it is delivered directly to the garage and the person starts fixing it. It was something that was totally new to me as here we had to go to the garage first and then request for the person to have a look at the car and then would be given a list then would have to go to the parts shop and purchase it. This entire process was something new to me and especially explaining the mechanic what exactly I wanted in the car was extremely challenging as I constantly had to open the Google Translator to explain the way I wanted the parts to fit. I realized that after this experience it is a must for me to improve my communication skills that would indeed help me in the future. I also came to know that the language barrier was something that was like interfering my creativity and the way I wanted something to be done on the car, I was unable to tell the mechanic how exactly and it led me to become angry.
Professor Khadka, in the class has helped a lot. I think that teaching a new language is an extremely difficult job, but the professor has made it very convincing and in an extremely friendly manner. Another important thing that I learnt about writing is how I should cite my sources and also how I should be able to do it in MLA format. As it is important to show what I have done to the professor and also to the readers that are going to read the essay, like it can be understood by doing so that nothing is copy and pasted from the internet but instead it is referred to. Also I got to know that doing this MLA format would help my last name be on every page which is extremely important. TheMLA citation has helped me a lot in the essays, as I was taught a different way to cite sources in school, but the MLA citation gives out complete message about the source and is much easier to access in order to verify the source. It not only has made me feel interested in research subjects but also has made me develop keen interest in different topics like car tuning, the turbo related things etc. This would definitely help in me using this type of researches ahead if I would like to prove a point and show that a person who is defending himself is wrong. I would highly recommend my friends to take the class with this professor as I was completely satisfied and felt encouraged.
The class started with a challenge that I had to write many things and at the same time read different things. I always thought that understanding the organization in an essay is a really important thing because it makes the audience curious to know about what I am trying to tell in a really nice way. For doing this I got to know that I have to construct a really good thesis because thesis is a really important thing when it comes in writing and at the same time it makes me to think how I would deliver the entire message of the essay in just one sentence. It is so important that I always failed in the beginning, but with the help of professor, I got to know how it should be constructed.
In conclusion, I think that using the techniques explained by Professor Khadka and implementing them in my life would attain success. He has taken an initiative to actually understand the students and make sure that what they are doing is good. Constant appreciation by the professor has made me feel really confident about my work and the way he rectifies an error also builds a confidence. I also feel that his class has made me realize and work on the areas that were weak to me and I really like the prompts given by him. They are extremely interesting subject and also have a lot of meaning to it. Giving subjects to write on that are trending and on real world problems is very important because it allows the student to understand and relate to what he was being taught and what he is doing on daily basis. I really liked this class and take back many things that I have learnt from it and would use them in the future projects that I would be doing.