Importance Of Reflection In Writing

Ever since I can remember, I’ve struggled with writing. It just wasn’t something that came natural to me and always resulted in a very uncomfortable process. Throughout this class, I have become more comfortable with writing and its components. Though, this is only writing 101, my skill level has increased immensely. Before starting this course, writing was uncomfortable and confusing, but towards the end, my knowledge has expanded and I can more comfortably take on the majority of writing assignments.

Scores of students share the same sentiments about the writing process; it can prove to be an insurmountable challenge. Like any other job, creating an excellent paper only becomes easier if the person has the correct tools and knowledge of how to use them. Superior writing does not happen by chance. Essays are deliberate, focused ways of conveying a message to the audience. In order to deliver a paper that clearly communicates with the reader; the author must go through a process that is not linear but rather recursive. The work is often rewritten, reorganized and rethought before text is produced. On my path to becoming a successful writer, I was required to overcome my initial fears and weaknesses, display growth in my compositions, to master various forms of prompt, and to utilize strategies that will assist me in all future writing endeavors.

When I started my first semester of college, I was very worried about writing essays and research papers. I felt like my writing skills lacked greatly compared to other students. I knew a few things of which I could improve on right off the bat, such as my vocabulary skills and organizational skills. To say the least I was very nervous about how my writing composition course would be like and did not think it would go very well for me. However, I learned so many techniques that have helped my writing skills grow. It all started with learning how to stay organized, planning what to write in your essay in outline form and sticking to it really helped when writing essays. These techniques helped me become more confident in my essays and allowed writing essays to become a lot easier. The few aspects in which I am strong in while writing essays is my ability to stay organized, focused and be very clear about what I am writing. Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement; a few things that I can think of being grammar and punctuation due to no revising, embedding quotes smoothly, and citing sources correctly.

I was able to develop and strengthen my writing through the writing of all six of my essays over this semester. I was able to do this by having classmates per edit my work and then go over my essay and revise it. I was able to strengthen my writing skills by being assigned six different essays over this semester.

Throughout my writing career I never would have considered myself a solid writer as it wasn’t until this semester that I actually received my first A on a paper in my high school or college writing career. This came soon into this semester as I realized that something needed to change for me to give myself a chance at making an A in writing for this semester. These changes I knew needed to come from my writing process as I felt that my process was witholding me from achieving A’s on my writing assignments. After reflecting on my writing process, I concluded that I needed to change the processes by which I wrote and edited my papers. This semester my writing has benefitted from the changes to my writing process in the aspects of writing and editing rough drafts as the quality of my writing has improved since the implementation of breaks in my writing and multi person editing of my rough drafts in my

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.

Throughout the timespan of a semester could you improve your writing to where there would be noticeable differences? When writing for English 1010, I noticed that there was obvious weaknesses and minimal strengths or lack thereof in my writing abilities. In many ways I do believe that I was able to improve in areas pertaining to reading, thinking, researching, and writing.

The goals for improving writing skills have a variety of decisions of what they can be and could be. Being able to improve on your writing skills will help you try harder to make your essays even better than they were before. Goals will help improve on the skills for writing and more if you do well with how you plan to achieve your goals. Some goals i have picked include having better vocabulary, better grammar, better flow, having more and better information and resources, and being able to plan through the paper. These are my main goals to being able to improve and I will explain how I will improve on my writing skills.

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.

Although I am very good at math and science, writing has never been my strong suit. I find myself desperate for motivation every time I have an essay coming up. Ever since my senior year of high school, finding the correct words and coming up with ideas to write about give me some sort of anxiety. I plan to become better at writing papers by working harder to find motivation and by beginning writing far in advance, so I can come up with several ideas and give myself plenty of time to revise my paper before it is due. I can also utilize outside sources by getting the help of my English professor and using the Writing Center.

Of my own experiences as well as others I have researched, I have found that writing about one’s life is therapeutic and can eliminate stress among people. I always thought it was rather strange when a speaker or teacher would ask everyone to write down a few adjectives to describe him or herself; I never understood why it was so important. After researching articles and composing self-reflecting papers during my college years, I have personally felt the positive outcomes that speaking and writing about oneself have as a beneficial coping mechanism. Psychologist James W. Pennebaker, proposed experiments and ideas of how to navigate the traumatic emotional rollercoasters one undergoes in a lifetime through expressive writing, and shows that expressive writing is beneficial to everyone.

As I emphasize to the resources that can assist myself and any fellow nursing student having difficulty with the highlight of an Essay writing. First, they are many books provided for us in the College Library or public Library. I will use the Writing Lab (with in the College), for my future work, to see where my strength and weakness are and how to excel in my writing skills. After scrolling through the website, I found needed information from the Amherst College-Writing Center, Online Resources for Writers. It outlined and explained with the assistance of a directory of web pages on the specifics of College Essays. I will read and take notes on what is needed within certain foundation of writing skills to help me with improving my

Since beginning to write papers in English class, I have had countless successes and failures. While many of my English classes have taught me how to improve my writing, I have not learned very much in others. My most recent English class was last year, my sophomore year. My class was particularly undersized; therefore, it gave each student the opportunity to have additional individual attention. Throughout the class I experienced high points, weaknesses, and even difficulties that I never overcame. Overall, my writing skills improved, but only marginally.

After I started to learn ESL 115 course this year, I have learned a system of essential skills to improve my English writing. By practicing the knowledge I learned from the class, I received the ability to organize my essay better. However, there are still some aspects that I could improve by applying. For example, the part that I still can improve is the tone, the thesis statements and the PIE part.

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.