As a writer, I was strong for my grade throughout junior high. Teachers would always say how my writing flowed beautifully and sounded just right. Unfortunately, as the years went on subjects got harder and I shifted my priorities from writing to things such as science labs and math equations. Writing became more difficult for me and I stopped making the time for it. Once earning A’s and B’s now I was just barely skimming by with low C’s and occasionally high D’s. Grammar became increasingly hard for I started messing up on smile commas and punctuation in general. Sentences started to become harder to form as the passion to write was no longer there. Since I’ve been in college I’ve realized how important English and writing is and how I need to start relearning and growing inn my ability to write again. The things I would like to see myself grow in as a writer would be: properly used punctuation, less grammatical errors, and writing with a passion for what I’m relaying to the reader. First thing I would like to improve upon in my writing would be properly used punctuation. I have always struggled with punctuation and grammatical errors. When I was in grade school and junior high the grading scale was more lenient since we were just starting off and we were considered new to it and young. As the year progressed and the grading scale and material became harder I started to fall behind. I would go through the paper multiple times but it seemed every time I did I wasn’t able to
My first writing goal is to become familiar with multifarious kinds of punctuation and use them effortlessly throughout my papers. For example, a simple goal to improve my punctuation usage is to naturally insert one recently grasped form of punctuation. Also, I could read lessons about punctuation I am unaware of. Lastly, I could talk to my professor and have a conversation with him about the types of punctuation he knows and learn from him. I believe using different kinds of punctuation could introduce new wider topics into my essays and produce more polished papers.
As a writer it is important to find new ways to improve, I realized in to this class just how weak my skills in punctuation are. After each paper I review comma and semicolon rules, yet I still struggle with these rules. They are simple rules, but when it comes to applying them I draw a blank. This is one skill that will take some extra work on my part. Even in this assignment I see mistakes that I do not know how to fix. However, this class has inspired me to continue to try and fix the punctuation errors so that my
Have you ever thought about writing your own story? Or even create your own world and share it with the world? Creative writing is the process of doing just that. For my MYP project, I created multiple stories in order to reach my goal of doing just that. Throughout the entire process of this project, I have researched and gone through many difficulties while working on this project. Creative writing is something that not only is used to create worlds but can be used to express emotions as well.
In my future writing, I can improve by focusing on the areas that have been brought to my attention, such as fragmented sentence structures, capitalization, punctuation, and MLA formatting mistakes. I hope to enhance my writing skills through better planning, drafting, proofreading, and revising. I can become a better writer by building upon my current writing abilities and paying more attention to my
My love for writing isn’t as strong as my love for reading. I’ve always enjoyed the idea of expressing my thoughts in words, but I always struggle with things such as punctuation, spelling, grammar, and word choice. I think I’m better at writing personal narratives, and persuasive essays, but I‘m always unsure of where to put my commas. Writing has always given me the pleasure of challenging me, and I hope that this year I would become a better
For the past fifteen years I have learned how to spell, write sentences, use correct grammar and punctuation and the list continues. Over the last ten years is when writing has really come into play. I've been assigned numerous assignments that have required writing which has taught me my specific writing style. A few things that I like about my writing style consist of the following: I consider myself a creative writer, I have a fairly good vocabulary and excellent grammar. A few things that need improvement in my writing are the use of commas, run on sentences and the formatting of my papers. Although those specific writing characteristics may be basic they are the three that are most challenging for me.
As a writer, I have learned that there is always room for improvement. I feel like I need to improve proofreading and my approach to writing. When I am given a writing assignment, I have a hard time of knowing where to start and when I am done with my paper, I don't really read over it as a whole that much. In order to , I need to make my approach to writing and proofreading better. On the other hand, I am better at revising and organizing
I was able to learn some rules of punctuations from English 1 last year, and I practiced and read more about punctuations from various websites. Although most people are able to fix their punctuations properly, I feel good about the fact that I can do the exact same thing that other people can do.
During my former English classes such as Introduction to College Writing and ENG Comp I. I’ve learned that both composition courses focus on two different perspectives on writing. In my opinion, I believe that my grammar has intensively expanded a lot throughout the past year I have been in composition classes. Although, at times I had difficulties with my sentence structure. I begin to practice writing in repetition. My writing skills are improving tremendously. I wish I would’ve put effort into my writing skills before I began college level writing. My writing was probably the most significant skill that hinders me in most of my English composition classes. But this was not the reason why my writing wasn’t up to par. I just never critique my writing in a detail way to show that my papers are revise and well organized.
Creative Writing is an unique class. The class lets students express their feelings, write them, discuss what’s there, and allow a story to flow from them. Creative Writing has allowed students to learn in a way not focused on point objectives, but on understanding and using the information taught in important ways. This has really helped emphasize the importance and impact of writing. With this, it seems possible that having more classes that use this format could improve the impact writing skills taught in school have on students. One small way to help more students become interested and impacted is by generating an Advanced c writing class.
Some improvements I did was write the MLA format correctly in essays, also to not use words that I know I don't need them. Reading again my essay, help me see the wrong things i had on my essay, that I didn't saw while I was doing the essay. Most of the improvement I did were in my spelling because I always had problems on how to write words correctly or write good sentences. What I need to focus in order to improve as a writer it's always write multiple times my writing, that way I can see my errors I made, before submitted my work. How I was saying before I have to improve in write more smooth sentences on my essay, and try to divide one big sentences in more sentences. That way can be more smooth my sentences and not confusing to the reader. I have improved in many things and also I know I have to improve more, but I know I have learned a lot and improved in my writing as I was
I had all kinds of problems with punctuation, or rather, the lack thereof. In the concluding paragraph of my College Essay 2, the same where my previously mentioned grammatical errors came from, I lost points for three punctuation errors. The paragraph, “From this point on, I recognized myself as a football recruit and I humble myself as I am grateful for the gifts that I have and continue to strive to reach my maximum potential, as a person and a football player, and discover where I find myself fitting in the best. And although this opens futuristic opportunities for me, I was forced at a young age to hold myself accountable to display myself as a quality person and student, as well as a football player. This moment made me begin to go about life as everyone was evaluating me for the person that I am and I think, due to recognizing the reality of the situation, I have bettered myself as an individual,” contained 2 run-on sentences and a missing comma(pg. 2). Each of the run-ons, the first and last sentences, mess up the flow of the words and leave the reader breathless because of the unseparated thoughts. To connect these thoughts, two separate sentences, a semicolon with a conjunction or a shortened second sentence with a conjunction, other than ‘and’, help develop the point I am trying to portray to my audience. These punctuation problems showed up in my Writing
Third, my personal form of writing has changed dramatically throughout the course of my writing career. Essays went from casual and sloppy to formal and uniform. When I first started to write all the paragraphs I wrote were disarranged and horrific. Two topics were distorted into one paragraph, some paragraphs had nothing to do with the topic, so on and so forth. My style of writing has come such a long way, mainly because of my use of diction and grammar. Without my improvement of those two aspects my writing had no chance of changing the course from casual to
Every person has their own viewpoint of what a good writing is. Usually, high school students are not so able to cope up with the college life, leaving aside homework’s and time management. The most crucial view on it would be the writing skills because homework’s are important. For writing well at a college freshman level is to put ideas and thesis simple yet clear and let your head out. Usually, writings become difficult when we do not know about our audience. First and foremost the audience for whom we need to write should be clear as the author would always want to know its audience. I believe that everybody has something to share with another, so the best possible way to let them know is to explain them with words. A student should
In today’s modern world, more and more schools are incorporating electronics in the curriculum, but these changes are having immeasurable effects on students including the demise of their handwriting. The art of handwriting has been around since its invention in 4000 BC, and according to Anne Chemin, Mesopotamia was more than likely the birthplace of handwriting (Chemin). In recent years, however, handwriting has become more of a chore than a learning utensil to students. But at what cost? Handwriting is the most beneficial way for everyone to learn and develop their brains and creative processes. Today we will delve into how handwriting increases brain activity. Second, we will examine the educational advancements of handwriting. Finally, we will explore how handwriting improves creative thoughts.