English Class

One of the main things I have learned in English this year is how to analyze texts. Analyzing texts is a very helpful skill especially in college. I have used text analysis in many other classes, including sociology and biology. In sociology, we are required to read some news articles about various sociological problems and answer questions about them. Text analysis from English helped with this to retrieve the required information and its meaning from the text. The same goes for biology. We were required to read some scholarly articles based on various projects we had to complete. We had to obtain the information required and what the relevance was to our projects. This English class also taught us to connect texts. While analyzing the texts we used in English, we also determined how they could relate to each other. We became very good at picking out parts that related to other articles that we were required to read. This has helped in other classes because it has made it easier for us to show many ideas from many different sources in one coherent paper. This was especially helpful in my biology class. In one of our lab papers, we had to use information from many different sources to explain what our experiment was about. Being able to incorporated and relate multiple sources helped me to create the paper I did. Relating papers and sources and analyzing texts wasn’t something that I found easy before this English class but now I feel much more confident with it.