Assignment 26: Sam Clark

All things considered, I thought your class well designed to tackle the AP exam. Most others I talked to thought their writing improved over the year and believed strongly in the effectiveness of your method. I agree with this assessment, but am hesitant to label the class an unmitigated success. Though the course's title is "AP Language and Composition," I feel like we focused too closely on the test and not on broad-based English skills. To be blunt, most periods felt like a drawn out AP test. On the other hand, my writing, like that of so many of my peers, did improve. I learned that writing long, baroque, overly manicured sentences rife with commas, semicolons (which I now know how to employ with deft and ease), and dashes fail to encompass the majesty of the English language--a majesty shown best through unconscious (that is, free from perfectionism) writing.