My College Writing Class

Upon entering Columbia College, writing was one of my weaker areas. It was very important that I gained the necessary knowledge and confidence to become a better writer. I didn’t know how to express myself and felt as though my writing was not my interest. As a result of taking English 101, I have gained a better understanding on how to properly research and build a satisfactory paper. Every paper that was assigned seemed like a struggle to complete. Before entering this class, I did not know the meaning of a thesis or why it was important, however, I obtained this skill quickly. I noticed that every paper has an argument and the thesis helps clarify the rebuttal. Now, I have a new outlook on writing. It’s a way to express my thoughts and allow others to see things through my eyes. There is no doubt that I still have a long way to go, but I know if I continue to write, I will get better. Just as I developed more skills in class, the various papers assigned helped to better structure the writer in me. In addition, the subject areas were not only interesting, but very informative and made it much easier to write about my experiences.

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

This English Composition II class has educated me so much on how to write better, write in different formats, schedule my time better, and how to improve my writing. Learning more about all of these categories will help me in the future when I need to write other essays for future college classes that I will have. I am very happy that I took this class when I did, because of it I am more prepared for college this fall. I just hope my future professors are as funny and kind as Mr. Stout has been towards

It was my first writing class as a college freshmen and I did not know what to expect, like whether or not the class would be harder compared to what I took in high school or even if I would enjoy taking class. But as soon as day one turned in into week one, than soon week fifteen I felt more comfortable in the class than what I have probably felt in the beginning. I felt like I could write anything my professor threw at me, because through writing I could express my individuality. It gives me the freedom to express myself through words, and write about things I felt passionate about writing about. I felt as though I writing because I wanted to, and less because I was assigned to do so.

As a general rule, I do not like to write. The course that goes along with writing is exciting, but I am not a fan of putting the study together to make it flow. I have come to realize, however, that writing and college go hand in hand, especially in ENG 61. During this class, I was required to write term paper and blog numerous times, both of which are

Before entering this class I had moderate writing abilities and poor analyzing abilities. Since this is a writing class I knew it would consist of a lot of writing. However I didn’t expect this class to be so focused on research. So from this class I learned more than just writing and research abilities, I absorbed the capability to read better as well as reflect.

This English class has been an amazing learning experience for me. It made me grow as a writer, I am now more convinced when I write and can express myself more effectively, so readers understand what it is exactly that they’re reading about. Although I didn’t get off to a great a start in this course and if I had to do it over again, there are definitely some things that I could have done better. Interacting with my peers on the discussion board, made me learn a few things about working with others and the Smart thinking was helpful as well. However, above all the things I learned from this course, the most was about myself. The knowledge

The difficult adjustment from office writing to school writing is seen in the first few essays: Why Psychology as a Major, Public Assistance: Unjust

This course challenged me to different styles of writing than I have ever done in the past. At first, I struggled to write SOAP notes. This type of writing was so new, and I was not comfortable in my ability to write them. After getting feedback and discussions from class. I feel I could successfully write up a SOAP note if someone asked me to. This class also challenged my writing in that I had to focus on my audience for each assignment. As I discussed above the audience for each assignment varied greatly. In past English classes, the audience was normally just the English teacher, so the writing was very technical and formal. In this class, I had to adapt the audience to make my writings effective and

It is obvious that writing plays a crucial role in a field such as social work. Many first year social work majors often wonder why such emphasis is placed on writing so early in their studies. Social Work majors must learn to write clearly, effectively, and appropriately because it will help them later on in their careers. Introduction and Objectives

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary

This semester, I have attended each class and have been an active participant in those classes. Whether it was orally or active listening, I made comments that were relevant and thought provoking in response to my classmate’s writing, my classmate’s ideas, or another essay. I attended all workshops days worked well with my peers when it came to workshopping. I think that I have developed my writing since the first essay of this semester based on the feedback I have received from Dr. Schuster and my peers. I also was not on my phone in class. I turned in all responses this semester and responded to them orally in our class discussion.

English has never been my strongest subject. When I entered Writing in Health Profession in August, I had little foundational knowledge about writing and research. First two weeks of the class was extremely overwhelming, as basic terms- patient letter, profiling, gender issues, health literacy, business letter- was entirely new to me, which is why it makes me proud to say that this semester I have met the upper division course requirement.

When I entered more regular classes in my junior year of high school, particularly my expository writing class, I did not do well. I was accustomed to doing the bare minimum, putting very little effort in, as that was what was required to pass my special education classes. However, it soon became clear that my expository class would be challenging because my teacher expected great things from her students. Once I realized this, I threw myself into the work. I would go to class after school to ask questions about the content that was covered, as well as ask my parents for feedback on my papers. I passed the class with a C, rather than my usual A, but my writing skills increased exponentially. The C grade was obviously not what I had hoped for, but it meant more to me than my A’s. There were many times that I struggled with self-doubt, wondering if I had made a mistake in my request to

I had no doubt this class would be more challenging than any other english class I have taken, but the structure helped tremendously. Before we learned a single thing in this class, we had to write two essay. One was to see where we stood, in terms of our writing ability, and the other was our first official paper. After we wrote the second essay, it was time to learn. We spent the next couple week learning and practicing the skills required to write a good paper. After that we had the opportunity to go back and fix our essay. This was so helpful for me, and it truly made the class much easier. I saw how horrible my writing was, and I was able to fix what needed to be changed. If the class structure was arranged in any other way, I would not have taken as much knowledge from it.