Essay On My Writing Skills

This semester has impacted me and my writing abilities greatly. I feel I have improved in all aspects of writing. Throughout High school writing was never my preferred subject, but after taking this class I have developed an interest in writing and no longer look at it as a chore, but more as a method to express myself.

Part 1: My writing process itself is pretty simple. I do not follow the normal writing process. I start off by stringing random thoughts together. I then write a draft of my thoughts, and my draft usually ends up to be the size of my essay. Next, I do not revise too much, I just make sure that I stay on topic, and that everything makes sense. Finally, I edit and proofread my essay making sure that I did not miss anything in previous steps. I did not face many issues while writing, but there were a few. My first issue was using transitional words. I feel as if I am always searching for transition words. Another difficult part to writing my essay was vocabulary. Sometimes, I feel myself not using enough intricate words. Also, I have a problem with grammar. I do not always catch grammar mistakes while I am writing. I often have to read my passage three or more times just to get my grammar mostly correct. Although I try my hardest to get better, these are some of my downfalls. Now, I can reflect on the easiest part of my essay. The easiest part for me is finding something to write about. I try to pick topics that I know a lot about, and I try to pick topics that

Writing is no were near my strongest subject but everyone has their weak and strong subjects when it comes to education. I strive to become a phenomenal writer one day, to become a great writer requires a lot of work. This work I would have to do demands for a great amount of consistency. My writing experience has been filled with a lot of learning and recognizing that I still need help. I am not at all the best writer. I have yet to grasp the full knowledge of writing an academic paper. Some things I remember from high school, but other things are new to me. Focusing on my weaknesses is key while acknowledging me strengths. As a writer, I can find good research and come up with transition sentences but I tend to add extra information that is not relevant to the essay and I struggle with in-text citations.

During this semester, I’ve made a lot of progress with my writing skills. I had trouble recursively engaging myself in the writing process, and using technology to complete/enhance my writing and research projects. I struggled with these because I was too afraid to ask for help due to me thinking I would seem uneducated, or people would think I didn’t know what I was doing, which was true. Overall, I was scared that my teachers would think I’m not paying attention in class and I would lose respect from them. I would also find it hard to find more reliable information, and cite it correctly to prevent my essay from being so short. I improved my weaknesses by working with my peers and asking around to help me, and look for websites that has experts and is not available for just anyone to sign in and say what they believe is valid.

Off the top of my head when I think of important qualities of good writing three things come to mind, quality content, evoking emotion, and proper punctuation. Quality content is a must, because without it your reader will be asleep after the first sentence. Evoking emotion guarantees that whatever is read will be remembered in some way whether its good, or bad. Proper punctuation helps sentences flow , which makes the reading experience better for those who like to read, and those who have a hard time, or just don't care for it. My view of my own writing is that I must have been an eccentric artist in a past life. My writing has two of my good writing qualities, which is quality content and evoking emotion, but unfortunately I like the proper

Writing in college varies from teacher to teacher and requires the student to adapt as such. Improving such writing skills defers from student to student also. I learn through trial and error so I will quiz myself. A better way of growing your writing skills is to read books and write a report. Another way to improve your writing is to put yourself out there a write stories online so other people can read them and give feedback. I plan to improve my writing by going through trial and error, practicing weekly with book reports and writing on a book site.

The importance of writing at a college level is essential to communicate effectively without speaking.

My writing journey this semester has been a roller coaster. Since the beginning of this course I have improved in so many different areas. When I first began in this class, I didn’t have a clue how to start my essays. I wasn’t very good with being descriptive either. On top of that, revising was something I hated to do. My writing process was very messy and organization was never something I considered when writing a paper. Since taking this class my skills in organization, revision, and description have improved tremendously.

Approaching this class, I thought I knew more about writing. It turns out, there were lessons I had yet to learn. I learned a lot more than I had expected. This class taught me the importance of time management, in-depth research, and more. It’s hard to realize what kind of an impact one single class has on an entire field of learning. But making connections with people who are doing the things I want to do in the future, has shown me how important this and every class is.

I always thought that my writing skills were pretty good until I started this class. It has been thirteen years since I graduated high school and I quickly realized that I had a lot of “refreshing” to do as far as writing papers. I actually felt very discouraged when I took the grammar test and did not score very well. I knew that I had to dedicate myself and put a lot of effort into this class to really improve. The practice quizzes were a major help to refresh on everything I must have forgotten since high school. Being able to write a quality paper is a skill that everyone should master. Writing is such a major part of communication in this day and age so being able to write an intelligent paper will benefit you not just through school but also through life. Writing skills are a reflection of intelligence and I want to perfect my writing the best that I can. Being able to write a quality paper is a skill that everyone should master. Writing is such a major part of communication in this day and age so being able to write an intelligent paper will benefit you not just through school but also through life. Writing skills are a reflection of intelligence and I want to perfect my writing the best that I can.

During this semester, I have learned a great deal about my own writing, and writing in general. One of the main takeaways from this course for me was how to break down the intricate process of writing papers. In addition, I developed viable skills regarding going into more in-depth detail during each step of the writing process. I enjoyed having the freedom to write about a topic that I was able to choose. This allowed me to research and write about something that actually interested me immensely. Having to work with one topic for the entire semester taught me how to find reliable resources and how to pick out the essential research from each article.

My writing skills which I have worked on over the few months I have been in English 102 have changed quite a bit in my opinion. There are many things which I have improved upon that were amongst my weaker writing skills when the year began. On the opposite side of that point, there are also many things which I still need to improve upon if I want to truly elevate my writing to a level that I will be confident in. Finally, I have gained new skills outside of writing from this class, particularly the activities which we did in class at various points throughout the year. These things all cumulate together to give me an appreciation of English courses which I did not previously have.

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This class has taught me a lot in such a short time, and also made me realize a lot about myself when it comes to writing. I finally see the importance of writing and why writing will always be important. Writing will be used in just about every career, especially in nursing. Through this class, I realized my strengths and weaknesses making my future in writing papers easier since I now know what to and not to do. Better to realize the strengths and weaknesses in my freshman year then my senior year. I have found that having a voice is important in who the author is as a person and how it characterizes that person. I see that setting the tone of the paper basically sets the whole paper and what it will be about aside from the thesis stating

My writing skills are decent, if I take the time to fully process my thoughts. When it is a timed assignment or test, my skills go right out the window, I concentrate more on answering the prompt rather than the grammar, punctuation, or structure. It’s like a jumbled mess of writing filled with lots of errors. When I’m writing my main goals are to answer the prompt, have good structure, and no grammatical or punctuation errors. These goals sometimes get in the way of me expressing myself freely; if a sentence doesn’t flow right with rest of the paragraph, I will re-examine my paragraph or paper to see if I can conjure up a sentence to finish out my paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph. Another example is if I feel like I don’t