How To Write A Reflective Essay On What I Learned As A Writer

My writing experience about the career paper was more informative than I was expecting. By reading the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), I quickly realized that there was so much information about a career in medicine, I was not aware of especially with regards to employment and predicted employment rates. However, the most difficult part of the writing process was trying to incorporate personal information into the narrative while using statistics and descriptions from OOH to come up with a coherent essay. For example, with a plethora of personal information and details about factors that has motivated me to pursue a career in medicine, it was difficult to summarize and incorporate information from OOH into my

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.

My writing essays represent a timeline of improvement , from my first essay to my last essay I’ve noticed my growth as a writer. It was not until later on the semester that I realized that I lacked substantial academic vocabulary and had ongoing run on sentences, grammatical errors. My word choice was really repetitive with the constant use certain words. I have progressed where I have expanded my ability to use clear description and make my technical information clear. For example when writing essay 2 and 3 having to insert figures helped me portray my argument much more clearly. When addressing the figures in my writing they had become much more clear. Considering our class revolved around technological developments of the future it was very

When I was younger creative writing was my strongest link, but as the assignments and requirements grew harder I lost my touch and began to struggle. After taking both English courses I can definitely say that it has helped me grow as a writer and as person. Before entering English courses I knew very little about writing. In my high school classes, I was taught how to write but was never taught how to do correct formatting, citing, and did not know the importance of writing in general. Thankfully, after getting my feet wet, I learned as much as I possibly could so that I could be knowledgeable for future assignments, and now I understand how important everything having to do with writing is. My two college English courses have taught me more than I learned throughout my four years in high school.

If I speak or write effectively, I first must think through what I am trying to say and understand it thoroughly before I begin. After determining the broader purpose of communicating , I can determine even more specific purpose particular message. Good news messages include those that deliver positive news and messages of appreciation or thank-you notes, neutral messages include a variety of routine messages. I want to be an effective writer, I must use language that is audience-centered, not writer-centered. In other words, transcend my own perspective and consider the needs and interests of my readers.

America is a place full of immigrants with no single ethnicity or race. America can also be referred to as the ?Melting Pot? because it consists ingredients of multicultural backgrounds. There are cultures such as French American, Asian American, Italian American and African American. I am Mexican American. My culture has helped me to become the writer I am today. My bicultural background and constant moving back and forth from Mexico to America has both influenced and weakened my writing. Although I was born in America, my Mexican culture has always been a part of my life. I have spent the majority of my life in Mexico, and Spanish is my first

After looking through the reading, I believe my writing is like Janet’s because I prefer being very explicit and “straight to the point” in my papers. Moreover, I tend to use facts from sources that I believe benefit my main idea and avoid responding to the author’s claims as well. I am afraid if I place my own opinions or explanations within a paper, that it would take away the focus of the topic. I think that I hold more of an information-transfer model of knowledge more than the constructivist model of knowledge. From my previous experience of writing papers before college, there was a structural guideline of how a student should write papers and it had little room to place your own thoughts into it. Much like Janet, my lack education surrounding

Before this class, I absolutely despised writing. I hated writing about things I had no interest in. Teachers always used to tell me what to write about and I never seemed to have a choice. Coming into expository writing, I thought it was going to be strictly essay based. I didn’t even sign up for this class, so I immediately thought it would suck. It turns out, I was wrong. Essays can be fun as long as you enjoy what you are writing about. I like how we get assigned a topic, but from there you can personalize it. This class surprised me. I didn’t realize how much fun writing could be.

I hate writing mainly, because I am a horrible writer. I don’t find writing as a stress relief, because I can’t relax doing something I don’t like. I don’t like writing about personal stuff either. I like keep all my business in my head. Writing just makes me more stress, because I start thinking how I should be a better writer.

During this class, the challenge of writing and reading many essays have definitely improve my writing. There are so many details that need to be considered when crafting a paper. The grammar, neatness, relevance of the content, and the paper formatting are key aspects of the quality of writing. In the essay it was fairly simple to describe my surroundings, the sound, smell and general structure. When I started thinking of all the things I remembered from my experience in the ocean, I was able to make a gigantic list of details that I wanted to include in my essay, and I had to do some editing in order to fit the project guidelines. I wanted to convey how powerful and moving that experience was for me. I also wanted it to have a lot of vivid

After reading the articles written by professional writers, I found that I will have to reevaluate the way I do my writing. Before this point, I found myself in the role a normal student that believed that after the first draft was done, the writing was done. I always thought of rewriting and revising as an afterthought. Many times after I finished my first draft I would assume the work was done and I just need to correct for spelling and grammar. I believe many times I was just being too easy on myself. As Mr. Murray said, I now know that I must learn to be my own “best enemy”. Through learning the amount of work in this course, I am realizing that I must start my writing process earlier in order to give myself more to rewrite and revise.

When I was just a very small child, I was sending to take the writing classes every weekend. Later on, my mom would talk to my teacher to ask my every writing score and to ask if I have any improvements. Even when I grew up, the writing score still took up one quarter of whole Chinese Exam. I am pretty curious how could my writing still be not so good after all these years’ practicing. However, the reality is that I am not a good writer. When turns to English writing, besides the different syntax, the old problems keep bothering me. I always write what I thought, which is good. But without arranging those resources in a sensible way, those examples can’t be strong proof of my point. Another big problem of mine is that my limited vocabulary

Everyone changes, no matter the time. It could be a day to day change, month to month, even a year to another year. One may not realize it, but they still change no matter what. It could be from losing weight to thinking a different way about a certain subject. Nevertheless, the writer I was before this class, and the writer that I am now are completely different writers.

I found this paper extremely difficult to write. I had a hard time choosing the topic and once I did the sources I chose limited me on what I had to say. It was difficult to write much about a political cartoon and I wish I chose another source to compare to the magazine article. I had a hard time understanding the assignment fully as well. I now understand better how the project builders help us create the writing projects, so I think future assignments will be a lot easier for me to complete. Writing has always been something that I both dread and am not great at, so this class is more certainly going to be a challenge for me. My goals for the next writing project is to have better time management and write more drafts. No mater how many

Over the past few months, I have learned several different writing techniques. While all of the different types of papers were difficult to write, I believe that my writing skills have improved. In fact, I did not understand all of the assignments, but I did try to do my best on all of them. While I should have used more transitional words in between sentences and paragraphs, I feel that I learned a great deal. It is true that I have not had very much writing experience and the writing process is difficult for me. Sometimes, I do admit, it takes days to complete one assignment, but it will be worth it when I am a proficient writer.