Before going into this conference, I thought to myself that it was too early and that it was going to be a big waste of my time. I was mistaken. This was a very helpful period of time, so helpful that we didn’t even finish talking about the first objective on the checklist, because of all the questions and information that I was receiving and the conversations that were being shared. Basically, the information and advice that I was given by Dr. Drown was basically to try more of the tactics and annotation skills. I had tried some of the sills and ways to make my writing better but not as much as I could’ve.

I would say my creative writing ability is pretty good and the ways I can incorporate my writing to the story and relate my writing to my personal life. I also think I have a strong vocabulary when it comes to certain types of essays. But when I had my conference it opened up my eyes to a lot of things I can definitely improve on and become better at. One of those things is the easiest one of my mistakes that I can fix which is my ability to be on top of my work and that is just a mental thing that I can easily fix. But in the reading and writing world I have a handful of things I can either fix or work on. I need to read more because not only can it stimulate your mind, but it can increase your vocabulary and give your ideas on sentence structure and ways to form a paragraph like the professional writers do.

I need to just get my mind in the right place and start to get on top of all my work not only in English class but a couple more classes as well. In an English aspect, I need to work on how to keep my essays on the same track and not to derail the conversation at hand. Me and Dr. Drown looked through my essay and that was one of my bigger issues, its an easy fix but it is also a very important one. I feel as if I am doing pretty well in the class itself, I need to read more, use the writing tactics shown to me and become a better student overall, and that includes being a leader in the classroom.