My Reflection Of Writing

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.

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.

People have many ways that they write. Some do a process of doing drafts so they can look through, edit and make the paper better. Others will just write a paper and turn it in. My process consist of starting with making a thesis. Then from the thesis I create the topic sentences for the topic at hand. The best way to write the essay in a good format and have good detail in the writing I would write a paragraph a day. By doing that process it allows me to get what is needed out on the paper so none of the paragraphs are mixing content and making the paragraphs less structured. This process not only makes writing essays less stressful while also getting the paper done quickly.

Looking back in this class, I have realized just how much my writing has improved since the beginning

Then examining my later article of the weeks, “As Gun Debate Rolls On, TEachers in This Texas School Are Already Armed” and “No, there haven't been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong.” you can clearly see the evidence of change. Not only was I able to put more down on paper but also decipher the message better as seen with my more insightful comments, and questions that made me actually think and construct an answer before answering. As for my writing, I believe that I have improved greatly in terms of paying attention to detail, and sentence structure. For example just take a look at my first few writing assignments such as my research proposal, or my reflection on my annotation project. Both had the specific weakness of poor sentence structure and contained a lot of grammatical errors. Whether it was low variance in sentence length, basic spelling and phrase errors, terrible structuring and flow of sentences my older assignments

Over all my writing got way better this unit now i under stand how to affectively write a argumentitive piece. Before this unit my writing skill were really sub par i was i’ve never been good at writing and im still not the greatest but now i am more confident in my self that i can create a soild piece of writing. When i went back through my rough draft to see what i need to fix be for my final draft the biggest thing i had to chang was my grammer and spelling. I always has problems with grammer and spelling its been like that my whole life. What really helped me was the peer reveiws because they saw all of the mistakes that i didn’t and helped me improve my writing by a lot it was a big help its alawys a good idea to have at least one person

Throughout my years in writing and taking English courses I have always been a faulty writer and never have been strong in this aspect. Truthfully my writing was the same until I came to college and took English 104 with Professor Horjus. Horjus had taught me things about myself and my writing that I never gave my full attention too and explaining my thoughts. Professor Horjus had started off class on making us say things we could work on after turning in an essay and feel we lacked or felt very strongly about. Being able to talk about the lack of my writing skill or even the strong aspects in my writing let me see that everything teachers have taught me in the past has honestly not really helped. College English has defiantly shined a new light on writing for me.

This week I think my writing was better than the previous weeks because I had learned about many of different type of writing including cause and effect, positive and negative, persuasive writing and comparison which can help me to collaborate the style in my writing to show the variety of the structure. Also, this week I prepare an outline for the research project and I faced the problem on my idea which I’m not assured with this idea so this might be the problems when I write the paragraph. As a result, I got the advised that I should find more references to support the ideas. The another task in this week was listening. The teachers showed us about the listening exam which you have to answer in multiple choice. In my viewpoint, I think answer

Ever since a youth, writing has always been a thing of enjoyment for me. Throughout my life, I have written many essays and learned something new each time I wrote. In turn, this has helped me to become more aware on how to become a better writer and learn from my mistakes. From examining my own writing to receiving constructive criticism from teachers and peers, I can say there are various characterizations which I could utilize to describe myself as a writer. By taking this course, I hope to be more confident in my writing, as well as be able to constitute my own writing in a more positive way.

When I was in first grade, I started to learn to write words in between the lines on a piece of paper. At first, it was difficult to write in between lines but with practice it became easier every time. Before, first grade in Head Start I learned to write my name. When I first started to write my name, I didn’t have to write between line, so it was not that difficult. My writing impact has been negative because when I would get a paper back it had several marks on it. For example, When I first wrote my first paper for English once my teacher read it had many corrections on it. From this writing, I learned many things such as grammar, and how to start a paper. Every time I would get instructions for writing a paper I would always get kind of

Over the course of the last four months, I have developed numerous writing skills each week from our classes daily Khan Academy lessons, and I have learned new, strong verbs to incorporate into my english papers. I have also recognized who I am as a writer and what my securities are as an author. My experience thus far in Mrs. Lahiti’s language arts course has been very successful for I have grown as an author. In this reflective essay I will explain my strengths and weaknesses as an english writer, and give textual backup to prove how I have grown.

My biggest area of improvement this year as a writer was my style and structure. Last year, in English I, we learned a writing technique called “The Evidence Sandwich”. It was a basic claim, evidence, commentary, structure for writing body paragraphs. This was helpful when I was a freshman, but as a grew as a writer sophomore year, this made my writing sound static and robotic. As my writing progressed through the school year, I started breaking free from that structure, enabling me to add flow and style to my writing, while still maintaining the requirements for a successful body paragraph. Meanwhile, my writing started shifting from pure summary to actual literary analysis. These changes transformed my writing into more improved and polished papers. A challenge I faced this year was my writing process and my work ethic. At first I was very excited about the amount of essay writing time we had in class. However, as the year continued, I found the stress of sophomore year and all my other classes clouding my focus. This made it very hard to sit down in class and work on my essay without reaching to my other binder. I feel that if I had worked harder to focus in class and get more work done, my essays would have been much better because I would have had more material to revise ahead of time and ask Ms. Hursh questions on, and less work to do the night before the deadline. Next year, I will aim to use my time in class wisely so I have more time at home to focus on college and other junior year items.

Life has thrown me numerous amounts of obstacles when it comes to my writing flourishing and growing. One moment I will be typing out straight ‘A’ papers and other days my text resembles a children’s book, and not on purpose. My journey of writing is a giant roller coaster of ideas that takes twists and turns at every second; I never know when the drop is going to happen. When it comes to my writing I have good and bad days, however; that has not stopped me from expressing myself through text.

So far, being in English 1101 has taught me many things. First, I have learned to apply myself more into my work, and to stay on track of all my assignments. I used to be the student that would wait until the last day possible to do my assignment, but being in this class, I know that my very best work takes multiple days. Also, last year, I would turn my work in without revising, but now, before turning in a paper, I make sure that it is thought over thoroughly.

I decided to take Writing 101 not only because it’s a degree requirement but, because I wanted to understand sentence structures and punctuation at a higher level. When I first started writing 101, I had a High School level writing skill that had severely degraded over time and a lack of confidence in my writing capabilities. This entire experience honestly took so much time out of my schedule because I felt like I had to relearn everything. I would take extra time to go through the courses and even reach out and do my own research just to make sure I really understood. I have to say I’m still learning punctuation and probably won’t be comfortable with it for a while but I have a lot more confidence in my writing.