First Year Composition Course

By: Kaitlyn W. The value of have a composition course in the first year of college is very important. I think it is important because having this course can help students in their writing and other skills that they are not very good at yet. When I was in high school, I hardly ever wrote essays and I really did not know what to do. Having a composition course my first year has helped me because I can now write essays. Even though the essays I write still have mistakes, but I am still learning. I like writing essays a lot so this class was fun for me. I learned tons of things, I did not know how to cite sources correctly, so I learned that in the first year composition course. I now think I can cite things without a problem. I learned how to develop my paragraphs better than I have before this class. I learned how to write an outline before I start writing my essays. I always write and outline so I can have all my ideas down on paper so I won’t have a hard time writing my paper. An outline is a lot of work but it really helps me write my essays. My outlines are really descriptive and long. I write my paragraphs down in an outline form. I don’t really think that there was not anything I expected to learn that we did notI just thought the class was all about writing and we did plenty of that in the class. We wrote four class essays and a research paper. All of them were fun to write and the topics were good. I really liked having this composition course my first year of college. It is important that every first year college student has a first year composition course in college.