My Career Goals For A Surgical Missionary

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

The most interesting aspect I discovered about my writing this semester is my ability to read, appreciate, and interpret a piece of literature and write analytically about it. In this course I’ve grown to change my reading process completely. I had a tendency to read

Throughout the first semester, I already feel as though I have learned multiple skills that push my writing to a higher level. I have never worked with “They Say, I Say” before, and all of the readings that we have done so far associated with that book added new aspects to my writing than ever before. In particular, I have noticed a large change in my ability to introduce and summarize a piece of writing that I am analyzing before adding my own opinion or take on a subject. Instead of consistently summarizing points of the piece throughout my writing, I improved upon my skills and can now effectively and concisely summarize the piece before introducing any of my own opinions. Additionally, the class discussion that we had about the purpose of a concluding paragraph, in my opinion, helped improve my skills in answering the question: so what?

Okay, the time had come. I must sign up for a University Writing Program (UWP) class at the University of California, Davis, a requirement I greatly feared. I pushed back signing up for the class until my last a final quarter as a student because I thought to myself, “I am a horrible writer!” Being able to put my thoughts into words onto paper purposed a struggle. Therefore, I organized my classes where I would be able to dedicate a lot of time to my UWP class because I knew I would need it.

1.) The description of my writing process is quite standard here and there, in terms of a mental outline, preparing a draft, seeking opinions, revising, and then lastly rewriting my piece of work. To add on, the writing strengths I possess are as follows: transitional words/ and or phrases, an adequate range of vocabulary, organization, and getting my point across through analogies. On the other hand, the weaknesses I struggle with is my being concise, elaborate in certain circumstances such as writing conclusions for example, finding satisfactory ways to be explanatory, and answering inquiry prompts, fully. By the end of the semester, I hope to amplify my skills not only when I write, but also when I communicate. Along with picking up beneficial tactics to write articulate pieces of work. In addition to

Personally, writing has always been a difficult and daunting task. I always found myself asking, “Why is this required?” “How is this helping me and preparing me for my future?” “What’s the point?” However, at the completion of my writing 122 course I have come to realize how important writing is for my future. Some may think that taking a writing course is not necessary and shouldn’t be considered a “requirement” to graduate. However, you go through your whole life needing writing skills. No matter what profession. Writing is way more complex than I ever thought of it to be. I have discarded my high school habits and establish new techniques that has made writing much more enjoyable and less stressful. The skills you learn in a college

I want to be able to write strong and grammatically correct pieces of writing. At the end of this class I hope that I come out a stronger writer with better grammar and more concise writing. Writing well will benefit me personally by it will give me the confidence I need to see myself as a good writer. Also, it will allow me to have a better opportunity of getting internships and overall make me a better student. Furthermore, writing is used in the field of veterinary medicine for documentation. Documentation includes writing prescriptions and in patient’s charts. It’s important for vets to have good grammar and spelling so technicians can read and understand their

Over the course of this trimester, I’ve learned more about myself as a writer, than in the past three years of high school English classes combined. Prior to the class, my writing was sufficient but stagnant. I wasn't growing as a writer because I didn’t feel the need to. I saw writing as a timed objective, something to be completed as swiftly as possible. Since I had always received high grades on my

I am a strong believer that writing takes much practice and time. There are so many different techniques that play a huge role into writing an acceptable paper. I look forward to learning how to become a better writer. I plan on having more strengths than weaknesses as a writer after I complete this course. After having many years of writing I believe that I am a decent writer; but just like all writers I can excel. I am extremely excited to learn how to write better papers and papers that a professor or other readers would enjoy reading. I am concerned that I am too far behind as an incoming college student. I feel as though my former teachers did not necessarily prepare in the ways that are acceptable in

In order to improve my writing skills, I kept a journal, I wrote each and every thing I did. This journey of mine was going to have some ups and downs, but I knew that to really achieve my goal, I had to do everything possible to make it come true. I knew I’d have to stay committed to take on this challenge. My last year of high school came with some grave challenges. My English teacher focused more on writing. We wrote papers from short articles to writing a research paper as our last assignment. That itself, was a really big struggle. In the end, I made it through and ended up with a decent grade.

Throughout my first semester at the University of Portland, the quality of my writing progressively increased. My English 112 class contained many different activities that contributed to helping me become a better writer. Informal writing assignments, class discussions, peer review sessions and the writing center were just some of the resources available to me that helped progress not only my writing ability but my overall reading & writing analysis skills as well. Not only did I make new relationships with my peers, these relationships also helped me understand the content more thoroughly, work out any problems that I had with my ideas, and encourage me to be more social among my fellow classmates as well. Nearing the end of this

My academic career in the United States I started with writing and grammar classes. I understood that it is very important to know how to read and to write response correctly even on the phone. Throughout all these years in school professors assigned essays even for not writing classes such as research essays or research reports. Even though my concentration is Accountancy, I know that I should have good writing skills for my future career. Moreover, through technology we have social communication both personal and professional. Therefore, I continue improving my writing skills by using the base that I learned from previous writing classes which is brainstorming, outline, and proofreading.

With great apprehension I delayed returning to college for many years based solely due to my writing abilities. No long will I allow the writing phobia to hold me capture and stop me from reaching my goal. During this academic journey, I plan to build upon my writing skills by reading more and using critical thinking. Thus far in writing, I’m quickly learning to organize my thoughts so that they make sense and can be easily understood by any reader.

I believe it is important for any student who wants to succeed in class to take a step back and self-evaluate themselves in their work. To be the best, a learner should be able to determine how he or she is progressing and in what steps that person can take to improve his or her writing skills. Every writer encounters setbacks in their work, when this happens the student should know which resources are available for their assistance. I have used these methods and have discovered that I have matured quite a bit in my writing, in just a matter of a few weeks.

In the past, I have always gotten A’s on all my writing assignments. High school level writing was easy for me, but I’m concerned that I’m not as advanced of a writer as I should be for this level of writing. There’s just so much more room for me to grow in my abilities, and there’s things still left to be learned. That’s why I’m so excited to have the opportunity to further my education in an amazing school with great professors. To my understanding, professors teach a whole lot differently than High School teachers, and that’s something I look forward to observing. I’m excited to be in a whole new environment, with all new people, learning new ways to apply the information taught in class into my life. I know college level writing will be challenging, but I’m eager to test the waters and push myself to be better