Importance Of Reflection In Writing

I have been practicing on how to improve my writing over the past few weeks, which has taught me a great deal about writing. My teacher would like me to evaluate and explain my strengths and weaknesses in my own writing. This evaluation is in between my two essays. One on my own and another with my teacher's help. I have strengths and weakness in my introduction, body paragraphs ,and my conclusion.

When I look back at my writing before having any college experience, I can see that I had a lot to work on. I can say that I was never really a big fan of writing anything much less essays. Even when I was younger, I just did not have a great big interest in writing. This was because I felt that I could not elaborate as well as others. I was not use to having to write anything really, but I now feel that I have a better grasp on the steps that I need to take to get my writing on the level that it needs to be.

Please call me Rick. This is my second term with Kaplan in the legal sciences program. I am a veteran and I am a grateful dad of five grown adult children and one precious 11-year-old daughter. I enjoy 6 grandchildren and I am only 53 years old. I am formerly from central Massachusetts and moved approximately four years ago and now live in the mountains of Southern West Virginia with my wife, daughter and two dogs. I enjoy hunting and the outdoors in general. I also work for the board of education as a substitute on call. This is exciting because I get to see my grandchildren and my daughter and have lunch with them sometimes.

As a student entering the 10th grade my essay writing abilities were questionable at best. However over the course of my sophomore year I acquired new skills and techniques to construct and write essays. In some cases this class broadened my abilities already in place and in others it constructed new abilities to help strengthen others. All in all I am a better writer than when I entered my sophomore year. Despite all the positive changes to my writing style that have occurred over the past year some parts of my writing style require more effort to come to par with other parts of my writing style. As a writer over the past year I have reinforced my arguments well, and learned to develop a thesis better than I had, however I require more work

Writing is an important form of communication. It is a personal process that portrays your thoughts and views to someone else. It is not only an important skill to have for school work and certain professions, but daily messages such as emails, texts, and tweets as well. It can have a big impact on how you come across to certain people. Because of this, it is very important for me to practice writing. I believe that this course has improved my writing, which will help me in many ways in the future.

Olympian, Kim Collins said, “Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.” This quote can also apply to students in school in many different ways. Students always want the best project or writing grade that they can possibly get. While that is a worthy goal it is not realistic because students are not perfect and they are still learning, and developing important skills. In my personal essays throughout the year I did strive for perfection, but I learned that I could not do it. I had to make slight improvements to better my writing for the next essay.

As a writer I’ve grown so much throughout my college experience at Rowan University through the writing arts program. I was introduced to the different genres and styles of writing within all of my courses. Specifically, my Senior Seminar Evaluating Writing course. This course introduced me to the many different genres and styles of writing. I learned quickly within this course that the genres in writing can be determined by the literary technique, the tone, the content, the voice, the vocabulary used and even how the long the reading is. Not only did I learn all of the ways to determine a genre, but I have also learned all that would not be considered a genre.

This week I think my writing was better than the previous weeks because I had learned about many of different type of writing including cause and effect, positive and negative, persuasive writing and comparison which can help me to collaborate the style in my writing to show the variety of the structure. Also, this week I prepare an outline for the research project and I faced the problem on my idea which I’m not assured with this idea so this might be the problems when I write the paragraph. As a result, I got the advised that I should find more references to support the ideas. The another task in this week was listening. The teachers showed us about the listening exam which you have to answer in multiple choice. In my viewpoint, I think answer

This past semester in English 205, I learned quite a few ways to improve my writing, such as how to write in certain styles (i.e. APA), along with even memorizing the proper ways to cite different sources for the reference page of my essays. Prior to taking this class, I had great difficultly formatting my essays for other classes in APA, mainly because the only format I learned was MLA in high school, yet all my professors last semester and this semester required their essays to be in APA. Thus, I am glad that I mastered the writing conventions of APA because I will no longer struggle with writing essays for my any classes with the fear that I will get points deducted from my total grade due to formatting. Another technique I am pleased to

Ever since a youth, writing has always been a thing of enjoyment for me. Throughout my life, I have written many essays and learned something new each time I wrote. In turn, this has helped me to become more aware on how to become a better writer and learn from my mistakes. From examining my own writing to receiving constructive criticism from teachers and peers, I can say there are various characterizations which I could utilize to describe myself as a writer. By taking this course, I hope to be more confident in my writing, as well as be able to constitute my own writing in a more positive way.

Overall, this class has taught me a lot. It has pushed and stretched my writing abilities to the limit, and has helped me grow as a writer. I was able to learn how to construct a strong, valid thesis, do extensive research on a topic, and do a deep analysis on different material. Although this course was a bit tricky for me because I do not care for writing, I feel that this course will help me conquer my writing endeavors in the future.

The class discussions surrounding the writing process and your feedback concerning adding personality to my writing will be the subject of this week's entry. First, I'd like to address the feedback concerning the personality (or lack thereof) that you've experienced in the writings I have submit thus far. Throughout my academic career, including my experiences in the “ENG 111” course the emphasis as to what constituted excellent writing has always been placed on syntactics, correct adherence to conventions of American English grammar, and putting forth great effort to elevate diction throughout the writing process (even if such diction might detract from the overall voice or tone of the final product). These precepts of writing being ingrained

Writing is a skill learned many times throughout a person’s life, from understanding the errors and revision of their compositions. Many basic revisions are in grammar and spelling that are easy to correct either from knowledge through books or online tools. The skills to revise writer’s own work consist of recording the metacognitive process of the revision. Metacognitive is “knowing about the knowing” which help the writer learn the checking process of the work while improving and adjusting the composition. To better understand how this process work, I have chosen these three assignments and made the correction to reflect the sentence structure, stronger thesis, and development of a better style. The notes documented in the revision is the awareness of the decision the writer has made. This will address the common attributes of the three essays and correction made.

This semester has taught me a lot in writing. From being in high school last year I have seen a whole lot of new expectations and standards that should come out your writing as well as the way you should set up essays. One of the things that scared me throughout this writing process was trying to exceed the length of an essay because I wasn’t really used to writing more than at least 4 pages. In my high school English class we never really had an essay that was as long as 5 pages. Thankfully outlines which were given in this class helped so much in what I needed to explain and what points I had to make when writing an essay.

Before taking this class, I held a particularly cynical view of my writing abilities and even of my ability to improve these skills. In this way, I would revel in my own self-loathing, and would doubt every step of my writing process until I realized this pessimism in a lackluster and uninspired paper. Perhaps because I never had been required to focus seriously on my writing skills did I lazily pretend that this dismissive cynicism was the only effective means of critical analysis of my writing. As a result, all of my writing assignments were left poorly executed, often only being done in one sitting and entirely unedited. On the other hand, as I took this class specifically focused on improving my writing abilities, this lazy cynicism would not suffice to provide critical analysis of my papers. Instead, by taking this class, I not only learned to complete my papers over time (rather than procrastinate until the end), but I also learned to analyze my papers critically (by critiquing the argumentation and wording) rather than just dismissing them in despair.