Experience #2 Writing/ Composition - ENGL 101

In high school I was lucky enough to be close enough to Eastern to take 'college in the classroom' classes through my high school. The teacher who taught this in our high school strongly encouraged us to do so since we would be learning the same materials and doing the same assignments as the people that chose to take the class for college credit, so we might as well get the credit for the work that we were doing. Perhaps taking it for college credit wasn't the greatest idea for me since I didn't take almost anything seriously in high school but I did the class for college credit and saved myself 5 credits worth of work for when I did actually come to school here so I guess it worked out. This class taught me a lot about research papers, APA style, MLA formatting, and basically most of the skills that I needed for actual college classes. Before this I had never really had a reason or will to write a research paper so this was completely uncharted territory for me and several other students in our class which made for a really good learning opportunity. Looking back on my research paper now made me realize that it was BAD, very poorly written, very poorly researched, and has awful formatting but hey I learned how to do those skills. I think from this experience I learned a lot both then and now; I learned then how to at least halfway conduct research and I learned now that papers written by high schoolers are often pretty terrible, but the effort is there and the new skill is trying to be shown off. Because of this experience I now know what it starting out in the world of research papers and different formats feels like and can hopefully better sympathize with my students on the struggles that they face when I too require my students to dig a little deeper and produce a research paper, or APA formatted paper or even a MLA formatted paper. 

*I will not attach my essay because it is THAT BAD*