Book Report On My College Career

Over the course of this semester, I have learned many things to improve my writing. Having taken the course before, this semester has been an excellent opportunity to expand on my existing knowledge. Although I had written many essays before, there is still much to be learned and improved. Two factors of writing that I had learned or improved on this semester were transitions/topic sentences and how to properly structure a conclusion paragraph.

This year I have learned a lot from College Writing, this class has taught me a lot about my own writing and what makes a good essay. I have learned a lot about myself as a writer and as a person throughout the course. In this reflection of the past semester I will be going through my past papers and talk about what I liked and how I could’ve made them better. I will also be going through the activities that have shaped my writing the most. Hopefully, I will be representing how I have grown as a writer throughout the year because of this class. Before taking this class I was already relatively confident in my writing abilities and was excited to take the class. Now that the course is completed I am even more confident in my writing because of all the new techniques and helpful tips I learned.

I began writing with basic vocabulary and barely any sentence variety. As the year progressed, I learned to advance my vocabulary and word choice in addition to incorporating a diversity of sentence structure. Nearing the end of the school year, I acknowledge that I have grown and learned more about writing. I anticipate that I will receive even more arduous writing assignments that require more research and time. Although it will be challenging, I feel confident that I will do well because I feel well prepared from all I’ve done this year. As I grow older, I will have to continue to write. I know I can take the knowledge I’ve learned this year and apply it to future papers for years to

I am tearing my hair to squeeze every single word from my poor mind to finish this letter. Yet deep in my frontal cortex, there is no part of mechanisms that is designed for writing a self-analyzing letter to my instructors. However, it has been ten weeks I studied in this course, and all my favorite works in these ten weeks are gathering in this tiny portfolio. I have wrote a several rhetorical practices that taught me basic rules of rhetorical essays. I have wrote a rhetorical analysis, which explained both the thesis of the reading and my own arguments against the reading. I finished my last rhetorical project three days ago with telling another interesting story. All these assignments were tiny pieces of my writing style and they built up together to present me a general concept of being a successful writer. I learned that, and I made a number of changes to upgrade my writing skills. At last, I decide to offer you these changes I have made as a start-up story writer in the college.

My College and Career goals include graduating college and getting a job. I wish to attend the University of Alabama. I plan to major in occupational therapy or speech therapy. After I graduate with my bachelor's degree I wish to get my master's degree. After I finish my schooling I want to receive a job that allows me to provide for my family. I wish to receive this job in my degree's field. After receiving this job I wish to improve to reach a leadership role.

Throughout my time in the class I've become accquainted with fellow students and recieved lessons on the principles of writing. I hope to gain as much knowledge on this subject throughout the semester as well as in RWS 1302. Graduating as soon as possible is a goal I am set to accomplish.  Therefore, I will strive to work to the best of my abilities in order to complete the course and obtain a well deserved grade.  In this website I will present my writing pieces, goals, and information about myself. Please feel free to offer constructive criticism and contact

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

I begin my college career at Armstrong Atlantic State University in August of 2010. Of course as any incoming freshman, you struggle with the adjustments of being on your own and self-sufficient course learning. My freshman year to me was more of an adjustment to the true courses load. During my sophomore year, I became more focused and understood what was require to get the right grades. It was towards the end of my sophomore year that I had to withdraw for a semester due to my father’s diagnosis of cancer. My parents felt it was best to help out financially and to lend a hand with the care of my father. At this point of time, my life and education endeavors was put on hold for the sake of my father. I decided to go back to college after

One ability that I wish I had room schedule-wise to enhance is refering to sources in MLA style. Through the course, I declined to look for assistance from my educator until week seven, one thing I lament doing. That could have mollified the apprehension and uncertainty I had about this course. Any inquiries I had could be cleared up as the course advanced. My articles through the resulting weeks have shown my quality and shortcomings. I don't have numerous qualities when it comes composing, yet despite everything I consider my most prominent quality in composing to be having the capacity to obviously comprehend the brief and answer it effectively, particularly with the logical expositions. I think this is simply in light of the fact that I invest a large portion of the rare energy close by just to consider the brief, for instance, when I was get ready for my explanatory investigation paper on globalization I altogether read both articles on globalization by both Kwame Anthony Appiah and Franklin Foer .A conspicuous battle I have as an essayist is association and moves. I have a tendency to bounce starting with one point then onto the next and some of the time undercover. I ought to have utilized more transitional words as a part of in the middle of sentences and sections to make my peruser comprehend the rationale of my paper. I have not had enough composition experience and the written work procedure is troublesome for me. I admit to the way that it takes me days to finish one task, yet it will be justified, despite all the trouble when I turn into a refined

When I began this course I had heard rumors of the strict and harsh grading, but I brushed them aside, believing that were false. I thought that writing an effective essay was simple: present a thesis and support it with evidence and reason. Despite my beliefs and thoughts, I never imaged that this course would be as challenging as it was. This course forged longs nights of anxiety and stress to meet deadlines. I had many ups and downs through the twelve week course, often struggling with a different area of my writing week to week. Although I faced different obstacles every week, I could not shake one challenging aspect of my writing: in-text citations. In all of my of my essays I displayed little knowledge or incorrect use of a necessary element of effective writing. I demonstrated this in my Harambe citation in “This World’s Fire”, my volunteer requirements in “A Helping Hand”, and my professional rate statistics citation in “Pay to Play?”.

My writing has progressed during the term by becoming more specific and sophisticated on an analytic level. I have learned to closely observe what I am reading or researching; this helping to improve the credibility in my writing. When the grades were passed back for the first minor writing, I was highly dissatisfied with the grade I received. In high school, I always got excellent grades on my papers; making it hard for me to accept the challenge that was now presented in front of me. After sitting down and figuring out my mistakes, I realized I was an extremely general writer. I forgot to include multiple details that were necessary for the readers understanding—as it was difficult for me to analyze writing from another perspective. My first minor writing paper was titled “A healthy Friendship” and it explained a paradigm shift that involved one of my current best friends. This was my weakest writing by far. After I revised the paper and still did not receive my ideal grade, I knew I would have to work incredibly hard in this college

Throughout this course, I have learned necessary skills used to analyze and respond to an argument, as well as how to develop my own. When I first started this class, I had a broad understanding of how to analyze a work and why that would be useful for my writing. Now, I know the proper steps behind analyzing a work and then synthesizing the information into my own essay. Looking back at the first three major papers in this course, I have been able to identify some of the strengths as well as some of the weaknesses within my writing, in order to create a plan of action for the last paper of the term.

During my first semester in Advanced Composition, I have learned many valuable writing skills. Although the assignments have all been different, each one has introduced me to new styles and techniques of writing. For example, the definition essay was an interesting paper to write since I had to take an abstract term and make it concrete. I explored the strategy of exemplification in this paper and this allowed me thoroughly explain the term justice. I also examined the pattern of comparison and contrast and this enabled me to define the term justice from an unbiased point of view. I have learned to accurately introduce and explain quotes, which is powerful tool for presenting evidence that supports the topic, making the paper credible. I have

Over the course of this semester each paper that was written helped to introduce me and my fellow classmates to different formatting, and genres of writing. A lot of knowledge was gained from writing these papers and I was able to compare and contrast the disciplinary writings and notice what makes each of them stand out. Reflecting back on these individual papers helps to express what I have learned.

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary