Higher Skill For The Next Level

I have been a student at San Jose States University for second years, English 1A was my first regular English class, and over the course of my stay I have grown and learned a lot. As Hospitality major, I do not know whether need my writing skills for future job, but I know the great experience in English 1A class would help me to improve all my writing weakness.

Writing has never been my strong suit so I understood why I had been placed into EWRT 211. Before this class I had not written an essay since I was a junior in high school (six years ago). I have always struggled with writing, but it was not until my first diagnostic essay that I realized how terrible my writing skills were. Everything about the diagnostic essay screamed that I did not know what I was doing. Since then, I have noticed a vast improvement in my writing. This class has taught me how to become a better writer by creating stronger theses and by knowing why rough drafts are important to writing. Nevertheless, I still need to develop better strategies to manage my writing. I chose my essays, What Influences Teens To Become Adults and Resilience Among College Students, because they demonstrate my growth throughout this class. Even though I still need to improve on managing my writing, I am confident in moving to EWRT 1A because I have learned how to create strong theses, and how rough drafts have a great impact on my writing.

With the anxiety flowing throughout my body, I knew the time was near of facing my English 1301 class. Being told that I needed to improve my writing during my grade school days, I knew that I didn’t feel at ease going into a college level English class. But, with this in mind I had to pull myself together to encounter the challenges that I will face. However, having the privilege of having an amazing professor I believe my writing skills improved, also I was able to find my confidence.

To begin, I am eager to receive critique and assistance regarding my writing. My hope is to develop into the best writer I can be. Having said that, fearful struck me the moment I registered for this course. Fearing that I would be expected to write essays, papers and that I would fall short in my abilities. Writing a narrative essay, reflective essay, or researching material for a persuasive essay is not something I had done. Fortunately, soon realizing that this is why I am returning to college. English Composition specifically, will guide me through the information that I need to study to become the best writer I can be. Receiving guidance is a necessary part of life, and in college, if I want to develop my skills, receiving analyzes and assistance is essential to my growth. Falling short is an opportunity to fix what is wrong. So my enthusiasm is in learning everything I possibly can to aid in my success.

Before my ENC1101 class I had no idea how to write college leveled essays. I felt like a lost puppy wondering in the woods. In the start of this class I felt stressed out because I wasn’t so sure if my writing was good enough. I spent days just trying to come up with the right ideas, but most of all I was afraid to fail the assignment. It felt like I was having writers block throughout all my essays. Even though there is a writing center in Valencia Community College and a SL tutor where I could’ve got help from I choose not to. I was afraid for someone to look at my essays and not like it or just tell me everything I did wrong. Which would have just brought me down. But in reality I have come to understand that feedback is a great way for improvement.

Over the course of this semester, my confidence in writing has improved greatly. In high school, I didn’t really know how to write effectively. I wasn’t really sure what was considered to be “good writing” until I took AP* English. However, even while I was taking this “Advanced Placement” class, I was still trying to figure out how to really create “good writing”. I feel as if this had something to do with the fact that I never really had to work with the rules of grammar intensively. After taking this course, however, I now have a much better understanding of how to correctly use proper grammar. I also improved on using transitional phrases in my writing. I have implemented my understanding of proper grammar and transitional phrases in both my writing inside and outside of this class as a result.

When I first started I felt very confident in my writing and have written many different stories I felt assured of myself. I’ve read many books on writing and wrote a manuscript for a novel I plan to publish someday. Now that I have taken the English Composition course I see a

It was my third language and I could not write well with essay or paragraphs. My writing experience was in fifth grade English class and the teacher go easy on me, my writing process started in first day in middle school, ESL (English as Second Languages) teacher helped me through high and low in my writing process. The first major writing experience was fifth grade English class, when the teacher went easy on me with writing. When I first came to America, I could no speak English.

It has been difficult to translate my thoughts into the writing in a clear, concise method with proper grammar. My writing has improved over the semester in organization but still struggle with clarity with my choice and order of wording as well as grammar. I could see this translates in my papers as previous years I often get essay with comments that my phrasing was awkward. I felt this year with the classes in paper organization, and research has helped me develop the skills I lacked entering university. It has been a struggle learning new citation method and writing less scientifically for the occupational therapy program.

Until I attend in my second class of Eng-3001, I had never stopped complaining to myself about my unacceptable WST scores and would never expected that It was a remarkable experience to attend in a writing class when I nearly finish my master program. But In the second class, the professor’s comment of my Diagnostic essay and the lecture about the structure of a competent essay clearly let me recognize that my WST scores had nothing wrong, but I had. Fortunately, the practical and plentiful classes didn’t give me any chance to start a new complaint about another unacceptable score of the Diagnostic essay. Nevertheless, it helped me to recognize and improve my weakness in building completed structure of essay, correctly using example and quoting

The reason I’m taking English 100 is to get myself into English 101. I didn’t score high in the placement test so I started from English 98, and now I’m in English 100. So baby steps I was never really good in English or writing essays I always had a huge struggle with it. Trying to make my paragraphs flow but I know I’ve gotten much better since I’ve started from the bottom and little by little making my way up. I prefer not to take English but its mandatory to take to get my Associates Degree. My expectations in this class is to not struggle writing essays being confident knowing I can pass this class with a B average. I want to be able to learn to correct my own paper, and not having so many errors. My weakness in English is having

When I arrived at the school, my English ability was not that good. At that time, I was just at the begging of the stairs. My first writing class was not a real writing class. It was just about the basics and few paragraphs that I had to write on weekends. My first problem was vocabulary, memorizing all the words and their meaning in a short period of time was unbearable to me. In addition, my mother language is Arabic which is far away from English. For instance, writing in Arabic starts from the right side on the other hand writing in English stars from the left which is a huge difference in my won perspective.

Going into Composition 1, I was quite intimidated. I do not consider myself as an advanced writer. Growing up spelling was my worst subject therefore English was always hard for me. This resulted in my lack of skills in writing. Sentence structure is also a weak point for me. Even with not having the skills to be a great writer, I do believe I have some strong points. I can read something and evaluate it. Also I have been able to do my research for a proficient research paper. When it comes to writing a paper I am exceptionally good at format. After making it through Composition 1 I have to say I have learned a great amount of information on how to be a better writer. I am now able to have more of a sentence variety in my writing and my punctuation has improved. Even after spending the last 15 weeks in my Composition class, I still have some areas I need to work on. I am the world’s worst at not re-reading my papers enough. This leads to not catching all the minor errors such as run-ons, fragments, and mechanics. Run-ons are still a major problem for me. Having a good teacher that can explain in simple terms on what I needed to improve on helped. I know feel confident when I turn in a paper and do not dread writing them.

Entering English Composition I, was stressful knowing I have attempted twice failing. It still was like driving a car wearing a blindfold. Knowing I struggle with spelling and grammar, I am determined to accomplish this due to my personal and professional growth depending on it. I started this English class because I needed the credit to have my two-year degree, not to become a journalist. I have never enjoyed English, I am not one to put my feelings on paper and do not enjoy the hours of dreading writing a long paper with a due date. I feel I am a detailed person that cannot make it sound correct on paper. Lacking confidence plays a major role in the writing process. Although my papers were a bit scattered, I applied

Throughout the semester, my strengths and weaknesses of writing were pointed out to me in several different ways. I received feedback from my peers and instructor, who helped me progressed into a fair writer. Although my grammar flaws have decreased I’ve also noticed the confidence I have as a writer increased. Looking back at my previous work I’ve noticed over time the major problems like coma usage and sentence fragments have come to a minimum. Even though I still struggle in those areas my ignorance to the topic has been broaden to a better understanding of the fundamentals and skills that’s required to craft a well-rounded paper regardless of the assignment that is assigned. My eportfolio experience has been a journey I’d never forget.