In high school, I would always receive the highest score in my class when we would write essays. Naturally, I adopted a sense of confidence where I would not spend a lot of time writing and still expect the best grade. However, in the first paper I wrote in COLWRIT R1A, I followed my same routine effortlessly dedicate about one hour to write the essay. When the grade came back for this assignment, I was given my first B in a long time. Bewildered, I made a bunch of excuses in an attempt to justify
In August, I began my journey as a college student, as well as a Writing 101 student. I was unaware of what the class would entail, but more so, was unaware of the growth I would begin to see in myself as a student over the following four months. My commonplace book showcases my growth as a writer and as a learning- oriented individual. My five chosen tags encapsulate my semester over time and most importantly demonstrate several skills, specifically exploration and argumentation, that I will be
state champions. My team ended up working harder, smarter, and better than the opposition, all because of us learning from our mistakes. We took what didn’t work from the last year’s catastrophe, and improved upon it. The final product was a well oiled machine that demolished every team dumb enough to face it. In an albeit less dramatic fashion, the process of writing shares bountiful similarities with a soccer tournament such as the ones I went to. During my journey through Writing 104, I faced several
Reflection Sayed Aasim Qadri I wasn 't looking forward to taking English 4U despite the fact that I am a voracious reader and enjoy engaging in discussions surrounding novels that I have read or currently am reading, but conversely, I absolutely abhorred English due to my experiences in high school. Back then, English was a long list of stylistic devices, poetry analysis, and monotonous written assignments. It seemed that we spent so much time learning how to write analytically that it consequently
Reflections of my writing Writing is essential in the everyday human life and everyone is different when it comes down to writing. I enjoy writing personally I like writing about things I love doing such as playing soccer and gaming. When I find the right words to write to express something I feel like a genius. Writing has never been my forte. I have not written many essays in the past but I continued writing so I can learn from my mistakes and become a better writer. The hardest thing for me is
I thought about how I wanted to write this week’s reflection for a few days. This one is going to be different. My story begins at the end of the week. This week’s reflections are supposed to focus on syntax. I did not even know what that is so I had to look it up. After studying in depth, I understand that I should focus on making a well formed sentence. That doesn't seem to hard. As a lawyer, I can only imagine that syntax is not only important but absolutely essential to your success. When thinking
My Reflection on Writing How do I always write, what is or do I even have a writing style. I usually don’t write a lot on my own, unless it’s for academic purposes. Like writing short, long essays, or research papers. From what I can remember since High School I have written about eight to fifteen short and long essays. I have written 2 research papers, that were both 10 pages long. I always procrastinate before I start to write my essays. And when I finally start, I read the instructions once or
Over the course of the semester, my writing has definitely grown in confidence. Last year my writing seemed full of too many ideas. I was trying to throw in every piece of information I knew about the paper I was writing about. I struggled to get the correct voice out that fit with the information I was trying to present. I feel that the pressure from my Ways of Knowing class to get the perfect thesis, made me struggle through the entire paper to have the perfect evidence, while incorporating fluid
that I am not as good at writing as I thought I was. As the year has progressed, the assignments seem to have become more tedious. I have also not taken the necessary steps to create a good essay as I did on my first few assignments. In my first essay, I carefully planned my essay and made sure that I actually understood what was being asked of me. As the essays were assigned in rapid succession, I became more careless. Due to this, my essay scores have dropped significantly. My first essay assigned
My writing this year has far improved, more than in past years, as I have been thorough in each of my assignments. Even before this year I have strived to explain important facts in expressive details. However, as some topics had to be specific in order to be original & make sense, I had problems with expressing details in a simplified way. I always wanted to sound sophisticated, so it became more difficult to simplify everything I wrote to where I couldn’t be as “expressive.” When it comes to