Lorin Stansel Reflective Essay

Stansel 1
Lorin Stansel
Professor Hugetz
ENGL-1302. AHS05
11 May 2021
Reflective Essay
This entire year has been quite a complicated and stressful one, but despite that, this class
has shown me just how challenging college courses can be and the amount of responsibility
required to succeed in them. This entire semester of writing and doing projects has evolved
around my passion for art. My essays throughout this semester have expressed how art is
beneficial in helping people with physical or mental illnesses, along with how it can help in
situations of distress related to unemployment or poverty. That being said, they have all led up to
ideas for how I will go about making my passion project and call-to-action. The first thought that
I had for my passion project that I thought would be interesting was to make a website, but what
would I make it about? There are many ways I could go about making a website about art, such
as fun crafts for kids, or fun facts about art. Although these ideas would be fun, I had to keep in
mind that my passion project had to correspond with my essays I have been writing this entire
semester. My essays had a lot to do with art helping people, so I wanted to show how art makes
up and benefits the world in different ways. I eventually came up with the idea of making it
about the different ways art serves society. This project took a lot of research in how the world
benefits from art and the different types of arts that are out there. Not only was this research
helpful, but it also opened my eyes to the different arts and how many of them go un-noticed.
While I did succeed in making my passion project, I faced many obstacles in getting
there. Not necessarily making the website itself but finding the time to put forth the effort in
Stansel 2
working on it while balancing out my workload with my other assignments and classes. I had
never realized how time consuming the passion project would be and how much thought and
planning would go into it. I had always thought of myself as a pretty good writer and how my
writing was college and job ready, but I never took into consideration how much thought and
technique went into writing essays, such as formatting, structure, and styles of writing. At the
beginning of the semester taking this online class, I did not anticipate the vast amounts of work
that would have to be completed within a few days or a week, and how much writing I would be
doing. Not only that, but I also had to make the adjustment of working together with others by
taking the initiative in helping my group, finishing my assignments, asking questions, and not
procrastinating. Overall, I was satisfied with the finished product of my passion project, but I
must say that I owed a lot of it to my past research for my rhetorical analysis and causal/proposal
essays, along with me putting in time and effort to make it presentable. While working on the
rhetorical analysis and causal proposal essays, it taught me a lot about the importance of sentence
structures and how important it is to do research and citing the works that were used. If it were
not for me doing the research about how art benefits people with mental illnesses and me
suggesting a proposal of how art can help people, my passion project would have probably
turned out a lot different and not as detail as it is now.
If it were not for this class, I would not have gotten a taste of what to expect from college
classes and I would not have had the chance to do this project. Working on the passion project
this entire semester has shown me a great deal of responsibility and that I am capable of so much
more than I thought I was. It opened my eyes to the world I have yet to experience and how
important research and writing are in a job. Honestly, if I were to start over with this project, I
would probably do the same steps as I did before. That being; Realizing my passion, doing
Stansel 3
research, and putting in the time. But maybe next time I will do a little better in managing my
time and being less stressed. Despite that, I would not do anything differently. Although this year
has been a challenge, it has taught me many important lessons that helped me to make my
writing better and presentable, which will be extremely beneficial in my future of writing and my
job.

Lorin Stansel Reflective Essay

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Lorin Stansel Reflective Essay

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Lorin Stansel Reflective Essay

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Stansel 1

turned out a lot different and not as detail as it is now.

You might also like