Comparing My Writings Of My Personal Writings

Writing has affected my life for the better, but our relationship is still rocky. I never realized how much of an impact writing would have on my life, until I began my career in law enforcement. Prior to my career in law enforcement, I was a student-athlete. I always viewed writing as a chore, something that I had to do, and that always frustrated me. It frustrated me, because, I did not think I was good at it. I then discovered personal writing. I began writing letters, telling stories, the whole nine yards; I learned to allow personal writing to be an outlet, and that helped me to become an overall better writer. After I became familiar with personal writing, writing started to grow on me. I found myself doing more and more writing, and I was enjoying it. When I enjoy writing, it makes the whole process seem easier.

After taking Honors Written and Oral Communication freshman year I have changed as a communicator. I have grown in many areas as a writer and speaker; however, I have also have skills that need improvement. From the Fahrenheit 451 essay to the six-word memoir, my writing capabilities and experience has changed. I have sincerely grown in certain areas whereas I have also fell short in other areas.

Reflection: The hardest thing on this essay was finding good examples that could really illustrate the examples above. For working in this essay I did a short brainstorm for getting good ideas. Then, I made an outline and started doing the draft version. Then I got the feedback from my teacher and wrote down the final version. For getting advice, I showed every step for my teacher and also for my friends, for getting a good peer review and good advices. The best advice I got was one of my teacher, when I was making the outline, when he told me to change the

I 've always liked writing. Even before I knew how to write I would make up stories and pretend to write them down. Each year in high school I 've written a multitude of essays on varying topics. I have selected three of these writings from each of my years in high school to examine as part of this rhetorical analysis of my writing history. As I 've grown older, my writing style has changed and I 've learned more about the world and developed my own personal writing voice more and more.

When I wrote my literacy history paper I made the decision of using my rhetorical strategies. I primarily used embodiment throughout my writing and I was able to express how I felt as child all the way through my education. I was able to describe my difficulties and my growth into an adulthood. As I revised my paper and I was getting ready to write my final draft it came to me how much my writing has change throughout

Although I have not appreciated writing like I should, it has increased my knowledge on many subjects. From reading vivid stories to reading elaborative articles on difficult subjects, I've developed the skills necessary to understand at least the minimum that is required to continue through the subject. Because of this, I appreciate what I've learned from reading and writing countless short stories, elaborative essays, and reading books on subjects I am interested in.

Literary Analysis: The Literary Analysis was by far my best essay and the one I most enjoyed writing. The new critical thinking skills I learned in the first essay made writing this paper much easier. I also found the topics of the

Since the first essay question consists of three parts, I will break them down and address them individually, starting with the first.

I find reflecting on, or even rereading, my own writing to be a vexatious activity. Much like looking back at my artwork, I find a piece I once loved to then be awkward, lacking detail and the polished completeness I crave. However, I should state that I generally prefer my personal “hobby” writing and drawing to any structured essay or assigned art project. One reason being that the mentality clashes with my own, in the sense that I see both writing and drawing to be an art form, and art rarely follows rules. The other reason being when I know my work is being graded I tend to unintentionally abandon my writing style in order to fill the requirements laid out for me. This in turn upsets me, especially when looking back at my own writing to

The rise in China from a poor, stagnant country to a major economic power within a time span of twenty-eight years is often described by analysts as one of the greatest success stories in these present times. With China receiving an increase in the amount of trade business from many countries around the world, they may soon be a major competitor to surpass the U.S. China became the second largest economy, last year, overtaking Japan which had held that position since 1968 (Gallup). China could become the world’s largest economy in decades.

The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World, by Ho-fung Hung. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

My writing process usually ignores the brainstorming phase and goes straight into the rough draft. I do this because I do better if I just get everything down quick instead of thinking about it. This directly contrasts the process described in the lecture but where my process is similar is in the proofreading and editing stage. Just like in the lecture I read over my rough draft and make changes where I see fit and usually get feedback from another person.

I think my growth as a writer has increased a lot since the beginning of the year. When we wrote our first argument essay I didn’t really use elevated vocab, my grammar wasn’t the best, and most sentences didn’t make any sense. This year in class I read Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies. I think that those two books are identical they both have to do with two leaders saying that people should join their group. As a reader, I think I’ve improved a lot. I think I can comprehend better and I understand most of the words the author is

After going back to read my previous journals, my writing has changed enormously. Each journal I have wondered off from switching in between first and third person. My grammar is getting a little better; I still need to work on it more. From journal 1 to journal 4, my grades have been getting much better than my first journal. In journal 1 I felt like my imagination wasn’t there. Once I got to journal 4 my imagination came out to play. The journals have brought out the imagination that I didn’t know I had inside me. It helped me a lot with my essays; it gave me creativity in order to write the 3-8 page essays we had to write. By writing these journals, I have figured out that there’s a way in expressing your emotions by using objects or weather,

I believe that my approach to writing has changed over the course of the semester. My confidence in my writing has grown, as well as my knowledge in sentence structure, grammar, and word choice. At the beginning of the year, I doubted my writing abilities, but at this point, I feel as though I can handle large, intricate papers. I did not expect my writing to change drastically, but I did expect the small, technical details in my papers to improve, and I think they did. Overall, I have grown about as much as I expected to as a writer, and it has been very beneficial.