I Learned How I Write A My First Grade, Three Years Before I Entered Writing 101

This year in our English 1010 class, we covered many different genres and types of writing. We covered how to write personal narratives, how to respond to other students and other forms of writing, and how to professionally write essays. Briefly, we touched down on how to write argumentatively and were also required to create an infographic, wish was probably my favorite assignment. Although I never thought of myself as a strong writer, I believe that this class has greatly improved not only my writing skills, but my thinking skills as well. This was my first English class to be taken through dual enrollment and I believe that it went quite successfully while challenging me as a writer.

During the beginning of the English 101 when we began the writing process: I thought at first that we spent too much time on our essays but I soon realized how important it was spending time on the essays to improve them . The revisions that my teacher and classmates made on my essays were truly helpful for me because it allowed me to better my writing. For every week in the entire course we went over the MLA formatting process, annotating, citing within the essay, and how to make the paper flow better. I had the most troubles in this quarter when I started writing some of my essays for my portfolio because I didn’t have a clue how to start them at first. After a while of brainstorming ideas and seeing examples the teacher

As I look back on my English 101 experience, I have come to the conclusion that I have learned many new things that have improved my abilities as a writer. I have learned some new techniques that have improved my ways of approaching an essay. I learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to apply them in my writing and how to look for them in a essay written by a author. I have also learned how to argue both sides of a argument, and how to look for reliable sources and to properly quote and site the author of the essay. I feel as if I have become a better writer and my improved writing skills are shown within each essay.

Over the course of this semester I learned a lot about myself as a writer. This English 101 class has really allowed me to expand my essay structure and ways of thinking. This was my first college writing course and it has given me much more freedom when writing because in high school I felt limited and like what we were writing was not very important. In high school I would write essays to just to fulfill the required word or page count and to a degree I still feel like this but maybe that is why I am an engineering major but in this course I actually was able to express my ideas and for the first time really test the limits of my writing capabilities. I really enjoyed being able to incorporate my voice more in my essays and I believe

I used to consider writing as tumble words from your mind, write, read it through, fix minor mistakes, and done. However, you rarely get successful. The truth is many students, including myself, struggle with starting to write a word, or getting stuck in the middle without knowing the main point of the writing. After completing English 101, I can explain the writing process, evaluate the strengths of my essay, and identify my weaknesses.

Many of my writing traits have changed since I have been in English 101. While being in English this semester my writing has continued to improve greatly. This was mostly due to what I have changed since high school. One thing that I have changed is the way I plot out my essays. The way I was going about it before did not work for me because of the format that my previous teachers required. Now, after being in college, I can freely set up my essays in a way that I am comfortable with and can understand if I need to look back at them later. Another thing that has specifically changed about my writing is the word choice I decide to use. Now in English 101 I use an array of new words that had not been in my vocabulary in high school. I find myself using more sophisticated words when writing my sentences as opposed to what I was doing previously.

Writing 101 is the first nonmilitary course I have taken in the last 10 years. The reason I elected to take writing 101 was twofold. There is the obvious reason which is of course, that I need to complete this class to move forward with my educational goals in getting my bachelor’s degree. The second reason is that I have always had a great interest in writing both from view point of the writer and that of the reader. I have spent the last 17 years reading and writing many different products for the Navy from instructions to messages, each having their own unique format and purpose. The military style of writing is very different from how we write in the civilian world; each one has their place but I find that writing nonmilitary works are more enjoyable, yes even the academic papers. When I first started the WRTG 101 class my writing and sentence structure skills were rusty to say the least. Now at the end of the writing 101 class I can say that my writing and sentence skill levels have improved but by no measure the best they can be.

I never knew writing had such an abundant amount of alternatives for words that you could tweak, and build your writing even superior. Over the past two quarters of High School I have realized that there is a significant difference between what they expected you to write in Middle School, to High School. The differences aren’t something like “Okay, we expect you to write longer, and always give your information, but with a little something different.” It’s more about making sure your word choice, vocabulary, and especially your grammar for the reason that those produce the most impact in your writing. Middle School was more about teaching you how to start using the proper grammar, and vocabulary in your writing, but they do seem to make us

In the course English 101 at Capital Community College I was able to develop my writing very well. I enjoyed my first class at the college level but there are some things that I didn't find favorable. I put forth my best effort most of the semester and it's really shown in my grades. All my major essays have shown progress. Im satisfied with how far i have come as a writer and i do plan to take English 102.

To begin with, English 1101 has been a very trying but beneficial course in regards to my writing development. Throughout the course, I struggled with keeping my personal feelings and opinions out of my work. Although, my idea development and competitive nature to have the best paper in the class proved to be my strengths, writing was a lot harder than anticipated. From Essay One to Essay Three, the quality and execution of my writings have tremendously improved. Along with writing workshops and journal entries every class, I can honestly say I have become a very strong writer compared to day one of classes.

English was always my strongest subject, especially when it came to vocabulary tests. I had a talent for memorizing words and definitions and it always came easy to me. So when I would review my work on these previous essays, I noticed how strong my writing sounded, all because I had included enhanced vocabulary. It allowed the writing to sound much more educated and intelligent, such as “they were delineated” (“A Bite Out of History” 4) or “hindering the advancement” (“Minds That Matter” 1). The sentences would not have sound so resilient had I used “they were defined” or “holding back the advancement” instead of the words I chose.

Throughout the semester in english 101 I have gained and developed valuable skills in which have improved my overall writing. From the survey in which I find out my strengths and weaknesses to the the final response essay, I believe I have refined my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses. Also not only have I polished my knowledge on concepts I already covered in high school, but I have learned many new concepts of writing as well. All of these learning aspects of this course are credited to making me an improved writer.

Eighty two credits into my college education and I had never taken a writing course. The thought of it filled me with dread. One could ask why I waited so long to take Writing 101. It had been since the spring of 1995 since I last participated in an English course. In addition, I hadn’t taken an online course since 2005. It didn’t turn out to matter, our class began using the new Learning Experience Online (LEO), which replaced WebTycho. At least LEO leveled the playing field a bit since every student had to adjust to a new format. I only enrolled in Writing 101 because it was required. I began Writing 101 with basic writing skills, most of which had been obtained in 1980s and early 1990s. Application of these skills in my writing prior to this course were spotty at best and based on distant memory. I made positive strides in the application of the writing process and improved noticeably in essay construction compared to my writing before this course but made less progress than I would prefer in the proper usage of grammar, primarily due to time constraints and personal management of priorities.

I was a horrible writer since I was in high school, and I 've always had hard times writing essays for writing classes. I knew I had to improve a lot on how to establish academic essays and learn to come up with good ideas. Every time I make up a mind to concentrate on writing a good academic essay, I always end up rushing through rest of the essay after spending few hours on it. It was easy for me to essays until I took this WR 122 taught my Professor Wood. When I compare myself today with me from the past as a writer, I 've improved numerous amount of skills on writing. Not only I can now write essays better and faster, I 've gather many things about how academic essays are written, and doing researches on essay never seemed so easy after I took this class.

Coming fresh into college, there are a lot of basic classes that everyone needs to take. One of them is English 101, a class that is required for every degree that is offered here at Highline. I knew that it would not be easy, especially for me. I was never a good writer, for there was always something that I was struggling with, such as not going deep enough, or the writing being very bland. I put some of the blame on my past teachers;, their way of teaching how to be an effective writer was not effective. What they taught was very structured and did not leave much room for a student to grow.