Final essay 

English 101 has been a learning experience for me. My professor Jason Smith has given

us a book to read. This book is called “Fast Food Nation.” I have learned many facts about foods

through this book. Professor Smith has helped me expand my writing skills by having his class

write blog entries. Professor Smith has certainly helped me in knowing what it means to be a

writer, my weaknesses and how to improve my writing skills. This class improved my writing

skills.

            I have learned a lot of facts about food through this class. As I mentioned before the book

my classmates and I were reading “Fast Food Nation” has taught me how fast foods are

produced. I stopped eating fast food a year ago due to my health but, I never looked into what

these fast food items are made of. This book has taught me that fast food companies take

shortcuts in producing there foods. They purchase there food from factory farms. These farms

inject their animals with antibiotics and hormones. They spray chemicals on their vegetables. A

large percentage of their food is frozen and then deep fried. This book has also taught me about

the history of fast food, where it originated from, workers, how fast food companies became so

popular and expanded. These are a just a few facts of what I have about food from “Fast Food

Nation.”

            I have learned about culture and writing in Professor Smith’s class. Our class created

blogs. In These blogs we wrote about the book as well as our own experiences with foods. From

reading other classmate’s blogs I have learned about the types of food they eat and cook. The

blogs and essays have helped me with my writing skills. I love fashion and I am always reading

blogs on fashion. I never knew how to go about writing one. This class has taught me how to do so. Even though I am will not writing blogs for the class anymore I can now create a blog for my

interest thank to Professor Smith. The essays assigned to us have helped me improve my writing

skills. I never knew how to write and cite in MLA format until I did my research paper. This

research paper has helped me with research papers for other classes. I have learned about culture

and writing skills in this class.

            This class has opened up my eyes as to what it means to be a writer, my weaknesses,

where to improve, and how it will help me in the future. In my opinion writing is a form of 

expressing yourself. Your thoughts, feelings, and expanding your knowledge. You add your

personal experiences in your writing and do research to get more information on what you are

writing about. I started writing in kindergarten of course. Just kidding I starting writing essays in

middle school in the sixth grade. They have improved since then but I knew I wasn't a great

writer. Most of my teachers in the previous years would give me back my paper with either a

“could do better” or “great job.” If there were corrections to be made I saw them, but I never had

to rewrite it so technically I didn't really learn from my mistakes. My weaknesses were always I

was not organized with my essay and I had tons of punctuation problems. I am still working on

that. Professor Smith gives me back all of my essays with a rubric telling me what I needed to

improve on, with his comments and his corrections. What helped me was option he gave us to rewrite.

While rewriting these essays I was able to see where I went wrong and what not to do again. I

learned where to correct my punctuation mistakes. This class experience has made me confident

into going on to other writing classes. I have writing experiences from this class and I can look

back at my papers and see what mistakes not to make. I needed this experience for my future I

am on my way to becoming a social worker. As I have heard from many grad students there is a

lot of writing to be done. This class has taught me my weaknesses, helped me improve and taken

me steps closer to my future.

            I couldn’t have been happier with this class and what it has taught me. Learning about

fast foods something I may have never looked into. I would have never known about processed foods. Reading other classmates blogs learning about culture and foods. Most of all improving

my writing skills for the future. Thank you Professor Smith for helping me improve my writing

skills.