How I Learned Changed My Life

One thing that has not improved by being in this class is my ability to proof-read and my spelling. I have never been good at noticing any spelling mistakes, only pieces in writing that does not flow or make sense. I have even noticed in my peer’s papers that I have reviewed that there are words that are misspelled and the professor has marked, and I wondered how I have missed them. That

Before this course i wrote sentences like “i really prefer this method…” , my sentences lacked depth and vocabulary. Thus furthering my reason for wanting to fix my bad habits , so i read up on vocabulary and taught myself transitions,synonyms, and ways to correct my spelling.

I immensely struggled when writing. Taking my scrambled thoughts and uncoordinated analysis and converting it into clean and understandable words on a page was arduous. I could not express my thoughts in proper academic format. I understood the importance of writing to every subject. It was essential that I learn to condense my ideas and feeling into coherent written word. After much debate, I decided that the best way to improve my writing skills was to take an advanced English course.

I, over the semester, have grown in both literacy and critical thinking. A direct comment from Mr. Gish on the first essay I wrote for the class was “Nice reading!” to this sentence in the essay “This continues to show that people in poverty aren’t charity cases, but rather they are human beings.”. This comment, along with others, shows me that I am capable to effectively write in one of the worst essays that I have written. The reason for this growth was the support of both my friends and family. My father would help me with grammatical errors and final revision decisions in some essays. This growth happened slowly with a lot of effort put towards it. An example from my first essay is “First and foremost, Gordon Park’s imagery throughout his composition.” this is the topic sentence to a short paragraph in the beginning of

As I look back, College Composition has improved my writing techniques and skills by directing me through tons of practice with writing, readings, and examples from the textbook, in-class discussions and helped me notice my strengths and weaknesses as an English student. Some of my strengths that can be shown in my previous essays are: my ability to free-write with lots of detail, structuring an essay correctly, constructing a very well organized and detailed essay, and manage time and use it to construct a well- thoughtful essay, my thesis statements in all four of my essays were structured correctly, and also, it can take me less time to come up with a debatable topic for my essay than it did at the beginning of the semester; therefore, I have quite a bunch of weaknesses, it can take me a while to start an essay, still to this day, and I can’t begin to write an essay without completing the introduction paragraph first, every now and then the structure of my sentences can cause a problem and a hard time for the reader to understand what I’m really trying to say, and trying to get my point to come across clearly may be a challenge for me as well; also, I’ve noticed that in my previous essays I had put a few commas in the wrong places or missed some commas in a sentence, I have also misused semi-colons, sometimes I have used the wrong word or phrase in a sentence which has made my sentences really unclear and ending an essay with a conclusion paragraph can take me some time

When I stop to think about the memory’s that I have made during my first semester of college; there are both good and bad pieces or times that present themselves. Often with many things there are gray areas, and writing would fall in there for me. I fortunately understand now that I have times where I can over look many of my writing flaws. Such as sentence structure! This by far was my biggest problem in this class, and I fully understand why. Personally I have times that will type up a paragraph and never notice the mistake. That is until someone points it out to me. It’s almost like my brain knows that something is wrong with it, but for some unknown reason it won’t register when I’m revising my paper. So as a writer I have realized that I need to take advantage of people around me and get their feedback on my essay’s; because

I had a lot of trouble and mistakes dealing with that paper, who would have thought writing about something that happened in your life would be that difficult. I did extensive revision and found a lot of mistakes which were grammar errors, also I would find myself using shift tense in my sentences. However, after I found those mistakes I used inquisitive to help my mind better understand what I was doing wrong, After, I went back to the essay and I applied what I attained from inquisitive. Another key issue was my grammar, I would get words that sound with different spelling and meaning confused. Nevertheless, I when back to the inquisitive page to focus on the main areas I was struggling with. It helped me improved those areas and gave me a better understand of those areas. In my narrative essay I wrote a poem and I didn’t use the proper format also there were a few minor errors in the poem, but I corrected all those mistakes after I was done editing and revising my the essay. All things considered, I still feel like I still need word on Subject-Verb Agreements, Verb-Tense and Verb Form Errors. Despite, the fact that we going on break from school im still going to get a grammar book and work on my errors and flaws as a

These errors have weakened my writing and have drawn away attention from my content. I need to pay close attention in the future to these reoccurring mistakes. I have also learnt in this course that long paragraphs concerning one topic should be reviewed, and I should create a backwards outline so that I am able to break them down into several smaller paragraphs with different focal points. I have learnt how important grammar and organization is in my work and that I should not only pay attention to the content, which I have done previously. Grammar can change the whole meaning and understanding of a piece of writing, now I am well aware of this and hope to improve this throughout the rest of the course.

It was very to easy to have small mistakes in my paper. I use a couple grammar check websites to help me find any errors in my summary paper. I know that I have bad grammar so I use

I remember when I first came to the Wilkes University, one of my edifier (?) (Friend, teacher, mother) told me "Don’t judge your class in the beginning, judge your class at the end of course”. In the beginning of my classes I was very nervous about how to write an essay. However, I believe my writing skills has effectively improved. To be honest, English 101 wasn’t an easy class for me in the beginning. College writing is entirely different from high school writing. I always have trouble with grammar when I write English essays, and it’s harder for me to learn and improve my skills in a short amount of time.

At the beginning of the semester I entered General Studies Writing 1110, not knowing what to expect. I knew the class was solely based on writing and perfecting personal style, but I never anticipated the valuable information I would learn throughout the course of the year. The only advanced English class I have taken in high school was English Honors in eighth grade. That class gave me the base knowledge of writing, grammar and form that has helped me through my four essays in this class. Starting out, I was not sure what the standard for passing was; even though it was unclear to me what passing was, I strove for perfection. By the time the second essay came around I realized my writing was never perfect. Peer editors and family played a

The first day I walked into Freshman Composition I had the idea that everything assigned was going to be extremely frustrating and difficult, as this is a college class. Equally important, my expectations for the class was to earn at least a B, further my writing abilities, and learn more about college. As the semester started, I noticed that my writing was not at the college level and I needed to learn how to improve it. Along with improving my writing, I was also able to learn about college life. With this essay turned in and handed back, I began to realize my writing needed practice and critiquing. Furthermore, I gave myself goals to achieve in Freshman Composition, I have learned useful tools to improve my writing, and I have learned more

Afterwards I addressed my essay skills, I did so by simply writing weekly and analyzing feedback from an online essay rater. However this hardship proved to provide many benefits. As I did not choose to improve rather than ignore my poor English skills, my scores in both English class and the SAT and ACT have increased. My eventually self reliance provided me with a greater sense of work ethic, responsibility, and tenacity. Now that I am rather sanguine about my essays, I feel much more confident in applying for colleges. I have always wanted to acquire a professional occupation, now that I have the application skills I found new goals. Some of my new found goals include my dream to become a biomedical

Essay have never been my strong suite. This semester however, my writing ability has improved. My progress is evident when I look over my assignment five essay and see the mistakes highlighted. These mistakes are what I now look for while editing my work. I am still improving with every piece of writing I create, but I revise differently by looking specifically for my weaknesses. I have been successful in my attempts because I do not make the same mistakes as I used to. I now use more resources than I previously did to embellish my writing process. The combination of these changes has greatly improved my final pieces of writing.

Ranging from syntax to learning how to fully comprehend Bloom's Taxonomy Level 3, to creating a Hook, to Say-Mean-Matter, to making a thesis/conclusion. Out of everything I wrote this year, my literary analysis paper was by far the absolute worst one I have written, without a doubt. Writing my literary analysis paper took me more, substantially more time than expected, even though I already had everything going, and was ready to start writing. I kept doubting myself, saying to myself, “ that is not what the song is saying,” and kept going through thousands upon thousands of ideas until I found one that I was satisfied with. Time was running out, 1 week to go, Friday night, I was sitting down on the floor putting all the words together. Then it struck me when those words hit: everyone, nightmares, repeat, problems, no heart, empathy, will not give up until everything is “right,” love, and pathetic. It was at that moment I realized what the song meant, and I was brimmed with excitement and went to take a shower and went to sleep because tomorrow was already today. For the course of that week, I spent most of it rushing through homework to get to English, focusing on the paragraphs, fixing every little detail in every sentence, and barely having time to add strong words to it in its final hours. Finally, the due date had arrived, and I was afraid of doing badly as there was a lot more to add than what was there, but nonetheless, time was not on my side I, and I turned it in. Checking back to the essay now, I realized that there is still much more to write than what was there, so many things I did not fixate