Importance Of Personal Writings In Writing

My personal definition of writing: Everything, I experienced in my life, which triggers off my thoughts and feelings. It lets me desire to express the wonderful meaning through the words.

When I first started English 101, I saw myself as having a few good strengths and a lot of weaknesses as a writer. Some of my strengths included being able to write a good introduction minus the thesis part. I also saw myself as knowing how to write a good conclusion that summarized what I talked about in my essay and being able to understand a article or essay by knowing what the author was talking about. Some of the improvements I saw in my writing thorough out the semester is learning how to write an essay where I can communicate with the audience with my own personal voice. I also feel I improved on knowing how to properly include quotes and how to find good creditable sources to include in my essay and on how to include both sides of a argument in my paper. Another improvement I found in my papers is learning how to revise them and approach each essay. However, there are some items of writing that I believe I improved on but still needs some work. For example, even though I have learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to determine them in a essay, I still feel as if I do not know how to properly included them in my essay. I also see myself as improving on knowing how to write a thesis but still need work on

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.

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.

The only way you can become better at doing something is simply by continuing to work on your craft. Whether it is a hobby, an interest, or a profession, if you don't keep working, then you will remain complacent. A year ago, I thought writing was one of those things where I would just be complacent in. Not because I didn’t wanted to work harder at it, but because I thought of writing as one of those skills that came natural to you, or you did not have it at all. I always wanted my writing to improve but never knew how.

From grade school english courses to English Composition I, I have learned something new every year. However, some mistakes that I have made in my writing, I did not realize they were mistakes until my current English course. I soon learned that the mistakes I made in previous

Since elementary school I have exhibited a talent for writing. What started out as mere ten page stories about cats hunting mice or Greek Gods turning people into blob fish expanded into publishing a four hundred page long summer camp murder mystery as an eBook with my friend Henry in eighth grade. Over the years I have become more passionate about my writing, and over the years my grammar and writing style have grown tremendously. Looking back at the book I helped write in eighth grade I can’t help but cringe at the mistakes we missed and dull language we used. If I had written the eBook at the level I am now it would have been much longer, extremely detailed, and correct grammar wise. I realize the story could be leagues better, so I’m currently

In my writing there is not just one specific spot where I could use improvement skills. The main problem that I would like to focus on is my grammar. As I write something then read my sentences, I just need some help on trying to get my sentence structure to flow better. Getting idea or topics in the correct order is no problem, but what I need is for my writing to flow like a good song. Of course when its your writing it doesn't sound like what you think it does to others. Also I feel that my lack of know transition phases plays a part in that as well. Sometimes the only words that come to my mind when writing is "and" and "as well". Which is not words you would want to have your essay filled with.

In high school, I learned a lot of different things about grammar and little bit about writing a paragraph. In the class, it was getting the hard word and the class that I did not understand the story. I get the book to read and have to write about it. I was not to get what to write and not understanding the book. Other, I was starting to put more effort than other by going to after school and talking to the teacher. As after school, I meet the teacher and talk about the story and word that I don’t understand. Also, the teacher helps me to write an essay about the story. More often, I get to know about grammar, when we write when to put the comma and how to break down the run on

I started the Writing I class with high expectative for improve my English and, of course, my writing, since last English class, the basic class, we, students, do not write a lot. The first classes were easier than the last ones, with simple sentences and text, which I read with attention. The unit about planning was the most helpful; although I already knew the steps of planning, I didn’t used with frequency. Usually, the words just flow from my mind to the paper, but the planning helps when I have to write a paragraph or text whose theme is difficult for me. The peer editing was helpful too, but the most difficult to do, because force me to study and look for grammar

In this past 2 years I had been improving with my writing. Mainly, when I am not having the pressure of the essay I relax more. For example, write in discussion with classmates it is a less stressful process for me. Also, I love to talk about something that I know as in the case of the first week of this class the blog. I wrote more than 300 words without difficulties. I think for the first time enjoyed writing.

Throughout the semester, I have gained skills necessary for understanding and utilizing logic while writing. I am now aware that for any writing to be scholarly, it must possess an introductory section, a body and a conclusion section. Further, I am now able to understand as well as utilize most of the basic techniques useful in pre-writing, revision and editing. Through writing the “downloading from torrents” paper, I acquired skills in word processing, sentence elements, and punctuation. Further, I developed some special skills in writing a website analysis which is a critical aspect in contemporary learning as argued by Flateby (p 182). As the semester folds, I believe that I have gained the prerequisite skills in writing and critical thinking. However, I need to improve much on some of the common problems in writing that seems to disturb me especially grammar.

After this english class I am a new writer I am so much better of a writer before. This is a fact I learned basic grammar rules that are very necessary to writing. I actually really learned them, I think this is because I really care now. I have learned the rules in the past through many years of school. But it was not until now my first year of college, and actually wanting to change my life and my habits I built through all my life in school. The habits of just going to class because I have to just being there because it was mandatory. But the whole class I was I was thinking about something else or not actually putting in my full effort. I did not actually learn the material I was being handed because I did not care of put in any effort.

Looking at my background as a student from Indonesia writing and knowing that English is not my first language makes me unconfident about myself, and I had a problem mainly in structuring my sentence and grammar. When I first came to De Anza I did not have any confidence about my writing, and after I took the placement test I was placed in EWRT 211 and I took it this summer. The first day I came to the class, I felt so frightened that I could not do well in the essays and could not catch up with other students because of the fast pace in summer session. However, after I took EWRT 211 with Prof. Mary Diehl and as I wrote couple of essays I become more confident about myself as a writer. After working in each essay I got assigned on, and learning about how to be a better writer, and I am feeling positive and very confident going to EWRT 1A.

I have noticed that my grammar have improved a lot over the years. Before when I write, there are always mistakes in the grammar especially the teses. Now my grammar are much better, there still are some errors but not as much as before. For example I write journals every week and this is what my grammar two years ago looked like: “Today mom and dad not at home, their friend came take care of us. We watch movies and we go out eat food. We also clean house and we play game with them, that’s fun!” I know it is not good at all. When I went back to read the journals I wrote, I can’t understand most of them. Here is the introduction of an essay I wrote in my tenth grade English class this semester: “The dystopian fiction book 1984 by George Orwell, presents the reader a society where the citizens of the Oceania are not to have any thoughts of their own. By developing a strong connection among Winston’s internal struggle, the memory hole, and you never learn from the past slogan, the narrative of 1984 shows how the eyes of the people of Oceania is covered with clouds of mist, so that they see the lies as truth.” As I noticed there are huge