Dual Enrollment English At Brooke Point High School

Like transforming from a caterpillar to a butterfly, my writing style transformed from something mediocre to something quite exceptional. In high school, even when I took advanced placement English and Literature courses, I was never good at writing. My writing would lack structure, reasoning, syntax, and a well-defined thesis statement. My inadequate grades on writing assignments lowered my self-esteem, so I assumed I would never enjoy writing papers because I believed I could never improve. However, since attending a university my writing style has improved far beyond my expectation. My EN 101 course enhanced my understanding of the different ways I could approach my writing. Also, it enhanced my comprehension of outlines to complete assignments. Investing quality time into my writing made a substantial difference because I became a stronger writer. Through the late nights, constant revisions, and agonizing head traumas, I learned that my writing is truly spectacular whenever I incorporate well-defined thesis statements, provide sufficient supporting evidence, and maintain a clear focus in my assignments.

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 art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.

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.

When one enrolls into an honors or advanced English class, there are many worries that come to mind. These worries create thoughts such as ‘Am I a good writer?’, ‘Will I pass?’, or ‘How do I even start a paper?’. My teachers never specifically taught me to write. My teacher that I had for 9th grade English and my 10th grade honors English class always gave good grades. Once I got into my first AP English class, I felt as though my writing was inferior. In my distress, I went to the internet and I found that you do not have to be gifted in academic writing to get good grades on your essays, I found that organization is the key to writing a powerful essay.

As I look back into my high school years, I thought I wrote papers well. But then coming into a college environment, my papers were mediocre. By overlooking at my past papers, I found that they were unorganized, sloppy and had bad use of diction. From now on, I will use the tools I learned in English 1100-40 as a foundation for the future papers I intend on writing in college. Following the criteria of organizing ideas so that they flow, impacting the reader with diction and also by being creative, will help become an ideal writer. Following the criteria of staying motivated in short and long term goals, taking responsibility for actions and finally the ability to study well will help me develop into a supreme student.

From an early age I have been passionate about reading. Like seriously, when I was five years old I was upset that I didn’t get the newest Little Mermaid book for Christmas. However, I have never had an interest in writing. Unfortunately, as I plan to go to graduate school to obtain my Ph.D, I really cannot avoid it. Over the years, my lack of enthusiasm about writing has caused me to view most English classes as a chore, something I needed to do in order to advance to what I really wanted to do with my life. With the risk of sounding like a suck-up, this is one of the first English classes I have valued because I have felt like I improved some aspect of my writing in each essay.

As a student, one will always want to make their due assignments top quality. Of course, we are taught by different teachers and mentors what quality a certain assignment should have, a college writing course is no different. Entering as the new class of college freshman, we discover that there is indeed a fresh or different perspective and expectation in our writing. As a result, new challenges will rise. After carefully reading and analyzing I Stand Here Writing and Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers, both written by Nancy Sommers, it has introduced a understanding of what college writing ought to exemplify. Students should be able to achieve many objectives in an essay with a different perception on

I tend to agree with Mrs. Anne Lamott in this article, all my initial drafts are shitty. This is one of my worst subjects of all the subjects that I have taken in college, it is the least enjoyable. I do remember the long hours of summer spent repeating English because I could not get it right the first time, trying to remember the sentence structures the verbs and adjectives to use, turning in mediocre papers and receiving C’s and D’s. I know my writing style isn’t the best I try to keep everything as simple as possible to stay out of trouble; I do not challenge myself with writing because I know that I am not a good writer. Mrs. Lamott article is correct the initial first draft is just getting the ideas on paper and from there they will

In writing an essay I also struggle with incorporating clear topic sentences and connecting my paragraphs ideas back to my thesis statement. This struggle is based on last years’ experience with writing essays. This struggle can be improved upon by concentrating on what exactly my thesis is stating and building my sentences to relate and explain the thesis further. Improving on this will allow my writing ability to increase and help me become a more successful writer.

When starting an essay, I rarely do freewriting, instead I prefer to get to the meat of the matter; admitably, however, freewriting might be a good idea to try to prevent my writer`s block. In truth I also almost never begin with the core idea of the paper and by virtue of how I have always written, prefer to begin by composing a solid introduction, again, however, I admit that starting with something I could easily type about might be a better thing to begin with rather than the introduction. In addition, I feel that often times my titles are quite boring and that perhaps my conclusions bear too much of a striking resemblance to the introduction. In perfect honesty it`s obvious there is quite a lot to be improved upon.

It’s hard for me to decipher a lot of information to form the beginning of a paper or story. Once I get the beginning created, then the rest just seems to come. I also try to make my first draft half way decent, making sure all spelling is correct and each paragraph has a topic sentence followed by sentences that support the topic sentence. I also try to keep my first draft right around the length that is required for the paper.

The first step in any good writing is making an outline. Without a good plan, the paper would be weak and ineffective. The ideas on how to begin my paper came from the writing we did in class. The freedom of not worrying about the grammar or spelling and just writing whatever that came to my mind was like the words were flowing out of me similarity how notes come out of musician's mouth. For example, as we were getting to write about our second essay, the teacher gave us some

In the first semester we learned a lot about how to start an essay with different methods of introduction. I have tried a few of the different ways to do this with my Of Mice and Men essay, The American Dream essay, and even pieces for my other classes. Another thing I kept with me from the first semester is compound and complex sentences. I have tried making my sentences longer, and full of more details in order to make my writing flow more instead of it sounding choppy. There is no specific pieces I have done this in because it has been

I remember I sat in high school in my 11th grade English class every morning thinking I didn’t really know how to write a five-paragraph essay. I would occasionally think, “I can’t do this, this isn’t me.” My teachers would always push me even when I was a little kid. I’ve always had to write five-paragraph essay’s, but I don’t know this time it was different. I guess it was my 11th grade year, and I knew I had to pass this SOL on the first try because for the next I had 12th grade classes. It was very difficult to get me in focus. We had about five essays to write that whole semester and at least two-paragraph blogs due every Friday. My teacher told us that it would improve our writing skills by the time we went into that testing room on October 16, 2016. I started doubting the things she’d say. I thought she was just saying it to make us feel better about writing so much.