My Experience At The Technical Side Of Writing

While writing might seem like a simple task, it can be a daunting task for a lot of people. Sometimes it can be hard to express the ideas in your mind in the words of a paper. This results in a disconnect with what a writer may actually think. A great writer is one that can transform his thoughts into words perfectly. This is a craft that takes many years to perfect, which is why writing is troublesome for a lot of us. Many students also have had bad experiences with writing. Maybe they had a teacher that didn’t try to support them and their writing. They might not have ever gotten the help they needed and may feel that they are in a hole where their writing can’t get better. At this point, they just accept that their writing will never get better.

There was such a variety of topics covered in this course and I wish that I had taken it in a classroom instead of online. With this online course, I feel like the material went a little too quickly. If I were in a classroom setting, I feel that

Before taking this course I was really excited about what I am going to learn. And I was right! This course is not only interesting but it is also helpful. I have learned that the grade I am having right now is the reflection of my try throughout the entire semester.

I was right; the class was incredibly challenging. I had had a subpar general chemistry course in my sophomore year, so there were many basic concepts that I did not understand. I realized that I would have to work a lot harder in this class than

Reflecting on my peers work, I noticed a wide variety of writing quality, It varied in length and quality. Comparing it my own I can’t say that my personal writing is better. Since the people ranged differently. Some of my peers writing was better than mine and others were better. I did realize that most people put in a lot of effort and comparing my writing to that it shows that I need to put in more time to get the quality of writing. Furthermore, I was surprised when there was a minimum of 500 words some people went beyond the requirements while other did it. During the debates, some individuals did put in the effort to make a good argument and that showed through in their mid-term. And since it was a group debate assignment a lot of experience and levels of writing came together to come up with the best outcome.

Write down for both your writing - as well as for your audio-visual skills what your strengths and weakness are. Be concrete and detailed. Give evidence / arguments why you think this is so. Below some sentences are given which may help you on your way.

Can you consider myself to be a terrible writer? Most writers get inspiration from experiences, circumstance, or imaginations make a contribution in authors storyline. Each writers have their own style of writing since they all different messages, languages, and tone for the reader to actual take a position in the narrator’s writing. In a past even, when my grandfather is no longer with me, he has made a huge contribution in academic life.

Growing up I always knew I loved to read. There was a time when I thought reading was just for school not for anything else. When I started to get into sports I started to enjoy reading sports magazines online articles, and that made me enjoy reading about my favorite athletics their stories and how they became what they are and how they did it. Soon enough I saw myself finishing the whole article or the magazine. Part of that made enjoy reading more, and that made like to read other than sports so I started to read about history because I always was fascinated with what happened in the past, but I just never put the time to read about it. Which made me challenge myself to see if I can read a book or an article or something that I wanted to check it out and read about

My writing background was terrible before I came to this class, I could not write anything, without it making little to no since, even though I would know what I wrote, to someone else it would look like gibberish. I never really toke any type of writing class in high school, I did have English class, but we never did an essay, all I remember doing in those classes was just either reading or writing down definitions. How did I feel about writing before taking this class? I never had the courage to write anything down, let it be a comment on a video or talk to someone online, and I feared the idea of having to write out a report to my boss, I was afraid to write anything online or report anything. The essay that I loved to reflect on would be the Minotaur essay.

My experience throughout this class as a writer has been remotely good. I have learned many new ways about how to write an essay because one of my strengths is having a strong memory of the topic and another strength I have in writing is that I am much more experienced on how to describe a subject in great detail and because of this I know what I am capable of doing. I unfortunately still have some weaknesses in writing such as, procrastinating on starting the actual working process and because of this I start to panic on not getting done in time. Over all my writing skills throughout the class has not been what I expected but I did learn more about how to properly write an essay, which will help me out more later on in my future classes.

Well, I was expecting to learn to be a good public speaker at the end of this course and at the same time I was not expecting the class will have these many assignments. Because before I signed up for this class I checked Professor Austin ratting on www.ratemyprfessor.com, where everyone talked about him how nice and good professor Mr. Austin is. When I first came to the class on my first day, to be honest, I thought instead of Mr. Austin I chose someone ells and I really wanted to drop off class. However, I waited for few more classes to find more about the professor. At the end of week two I really start enjoying the class, even he made the whole class to read and summarize each chapter of the whole book of “Thank You for Arguing”. Overall,

The first thing I learned while taking this class is, improving my time management. I’m pretty good at time management, because time is something that you can’t get back. Every week there was an assignment and an exam to take, which I had no problem with doing the paper ahead of time. When the thought of taking the exam came to mind I took my time. I took my time because I felt like the test were challenging with only an hour and thirty minutes to complete. When I first started taking the exams they weren’t so good but, after I started reading the chapter first, then started taking the exams it got much better. This improved my time management because now I know not to wait the night the exam is due to complete it.

I have always enjoyed writing and reading in my spare time. Allowing myself to get lost in the fictional work of others or even writing my own short stories to past time was a commonality of my day. Despite my enjoyment of reading and writing; I would not label myself as a great writer. I particularly do not enjoy writing assignments that have a set of guidelines with a specific due date and that is exactly what First-year Composition at The University of Georgia does. I was quite apprehensive about my writing and the criticism it would receive when coming into this course. I knew that my punctuation and grammar foundation was not necessarily the sturdiest structure one could possibly have. In August, if someone were to ask me "How would you label your writing skills?" I would have definitely responded something along the lines of, "Rough around the edges and a bit wordy but has good intentions." My feelings of incompetence when it came to writing was quite transparent in my first college essay. However, throughout the semester I have been gaining more confidence with the help of my professor, my peers, and the faculty at the Writing Center provided on campus. Through my increased confidence when it comes to my writing, I believe I have considerably improved. Although I must admit I still make mistakes here and there; my work reflects the newly found confidence I discovered while taking this course.

My experiences with writing started from a young age. It all started back in elementary school when a local author, Marlane Kennedy, who had written a book about the Circleville Pumpkin Show came to my school and read it to us right before Pumpkin Show break. I loved how I could picture almost every word, and decided at that point in time that I wanted to be an author too. Thence began my short stories. Up until about 6th grade I was writing short story after short story and would give them to my mother to take to work so that she could share them with her friends. But once 7th grade hit, I became distracted with school activities and the stories stopped.

Writing has never been something that I have really enjoyed or was particularly good at. Every year I have been required to take an english class and it has always been one of my most challenging classes, especially if it involves a lot of writing. One reason I never really got better is that I only wrote when I had to for a class. Outside of school or my english classes I would avoid writing as much as possible because I really didn’t enjoy it. However the main reason I hated it was because I wasn’t very good at it and it always just seemed very tedious. Over the years I have started to improve at writing slowly and it has become less of a dreaded thing. This class has been one of the most helpful in teaching me actually how to structure and craft a good essay. I was going to take advanced comp as recommended by my sister but I’m glad I took this class because I got a lot more instruction on writing than I would have in advanced comp. Before this class I didn’t have a lot of writing skills other than basic stuff that wasn’t enough to really make quality essays that I was proud of. And even when I liked an essay that I wrote it usually had flaws that came from me just not being an experienced writer. Coming into this class I had lots to work and improve on and over the course of the semester I feel like I have improved and learned a lot. My first essay was far worse than my last few and it has been mainly due to practice and more knowledge that I gained in this class.