My Writing A Perfect Paper

Whenever an assignment was given, I used to just write everything that I could think of, similar to a free write. After doing a free write in my scrap notebook, I would then go back and insert examples from the text to further prove my points. After taking this class, I learned that is the incorrect way to write academic papers and that the best way is to make an outline instead so that I can make sure that every point is proven, clear, accurate, and most importantly understandable. I was able to see the improvement of how outlines helped through my first essay. The essay was about picking out an image and explaining its means to the visual context and its impact on culture. My first draft I had learned that I needed to step back and see

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

In addition, we can see the words in the sentences are formed and placed in an orderly fashioned giving the reader a much clear view of the essay. This is a key aspect of writing an astonishing essay because you want to give the reader a vivid understanding of the text; you want to write in a chronological sequence so the reader gets a clear view of what's going on. Moreover, Stinson uses a charming style to astonish the reader. Stinson style in writing this essay is so fascinating and attractive that it makes you want to read the work over and over again. Stinson uses this in order to keep the reader exhilarated, because you don't want your reader to get bored of reading your essay. After reading this essay I learned many new things; such as, using higher vocab words is beneficial also I learned that a good essay is a written in such a way that the reader won't ever get bored. This essay has given me a clear image of what a perfect and appealing essay looks like. The techniques I learned by reading this essay will help me write a decent college essay that will, hopefully, be appealing to the

When I started my first semester of college, I was very worried about writing essays and research papers. I felt like my writing skills lacked greatly compared to other students. I knew a few things of which I could improve on right off the bat, such as my vocabulary skills and organizational skills. To say the least I was very nervous about how my writing composition course would be like and did not think it would go very well for me. However, I learned so many techniques that have helped my writing skills grow. It all started with learning how to stay organized, planning what to write in your essay in outline form and sticking to it really helped when writing essays. These techniques helped me become more confident in my essays and allowed writing essays to become a lot easier. The few aspects in which I am strong in while writing essays is my ability to stay organized, focused and be very clear about what I am writing. Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement; a few things that I can think of being grammar and punctuation due to no revising, embedding quotes smoothly, and citing sources correctly.

My high school years were not spectacular, nor were they terribly productive.I left high school without learning how to proficiently write an essay. However, CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College afforded me a desperately needed second chance. It was at BMCC that I sharpened many of the skills I should have mastered in high school. I was able to greatly improve my writing ability. I began college as a student who found writing a 2 page paper to be a terrifyingly daunting task, but due to practice and numerous resources offered by CUNY, I soon was able to compose papers consisting of 10-14 pages with confidence and efficiency.

During my English courses throughout high school, I learned many things from writing simple journals, research papers, and a single term paper. During high school, I was laid back and procrastinated for much of my work. During the latter part of high school when I wrote my term paper my senior year, I found out that working a little every night writing a few paragraphs helped me out greatly. I was not just throwing something together just to get the grade and the paper finished. I spent time on the paper and

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.

As a writer there are many elements of writing that I struggle with, especially when composing an essay. When writing an essay, there are usually many skills that need to be used in order to be successful with the writing assignment. Many times in writing I struggle with explaining and fully developing the supporting details and ideas in my essay. I would also like to improve on incorporating clear topic sentences and concluding sentences, connecting my paragraphs ideas back to my thesis. Lastly, improvement can be made in my writing by avoiding awkward or wordy sentences. Writers face numerous challenges in their writing but strive to overcome or improve these challenges with each piece they write.

Going through high school, I would always tell myself that writing papers was the hardest thing possible and that it took a very educated human being to become a writer. As I grew older I started to realize that you could be just an average person and just write anything and it could mean something. I started realizing that I actually enjoyed writing because I could say what I wanted and it felt great to just express myself when doing so. Although I enjoyed it my teachers told me that the formatting was super sloppy and helped me to improve on that. As I go through college I hope to improve on my vocabulary, sentence structure, and formatting in order to become a better writer.

I have also realized that there are going to be many times you have to scrap ideas and start over. This semester I have realized that I try and perfect my assignments too much to where I start to crunch on time because it wasn’t to my expectation and I started over to many times, that there is in fact a way that too much thought can be put into a paper to where it becomes cluttered. The biggest growth I’ve seen over this semester is overall just my writing in general. At the beginning, my writing was very basic. My sentences were all around the same size and it was just not at the level of writing I would have liked it to be. The biggest thing that helped me with this over the semester would be just reading and editing mine as well as other peers’ papers. Towards the end of the semester it became easier to write, whether it was a personal, research, or

Lamott uses her personal example to demonstrate how she was truly incapable of writing a perfect paper for her assignment when it was her first draft. . She also refutes the claim that experts are always perfect writers who make beautiful first drafts, stating that they also face these challenges and are not exempt from having flaws in their works (93). She then provides some immensely helpful advice on writing first drafts, which is that the first draft of any paper is allowed to be completely terrible and extremely long (94). Her final recommendation is that editing the paper into a second draft should only place after completing the first draft (95).

I think being a perfectionist prevents one from being creative. Perfectionists tend to compare themselves with others, and they believe that they have to better than others, and be perfect (at least this is the image I have about perfectionists) As it mentions in the book, perfectionists depend on their own self-worth on approval or acceptance from others. They want to conform with others, or stand out and are so afraid of being rejected or receiving criticisms in the case of life paralysis. They need to cultivate the courage to be imperfect. Actually, no one can be perfect. Everyone has their own strength and weaknesses. Forcing themselves to be good at everything does not help developing their own uniqueness. I personally don’t consider myself

Writing has always been challenging for me because of the complexity of multiple rules. On the beginning of the semester I constantly worried about the structure of my writing and its overall material. In high school it was important for me to complete my essays by answering the questions that I was given, but in college, students go more into depth such as focusing on grammar, and well structured ideas that flow along with rich analytical content. After I was given my first assignment I was pushed to improve my overall work by focusing on structure and developing analytical content. For example, the weekly readings and writing assignments helped me improve my overall work. Later on, these two techniques, organizing and analyzing work were useful for my assignments that were given.

Throughout my time writing at the City College of New York, I experienced a slow and dramatic transition to my first semester of this college course. During that time, I've learned from several feedback and lessons from certain peers and my professor. Because of the strict comments written in my drafts by my professor, a few helpful suggestions to include in my writing, and a few miserably failures, I was able to see how my writing and habits have changed during the duration of this course. Back in high school, I was always comfortable writing only five paragraph essays (Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion), but I've never expected to write something more complex. Here, I was encouraged to include as much detail as I can instead of writing something vague

I believe I have achieved most of the course learning objectives as I pass this class with a c or higher. I undertook the writing process we learned in class and it has helped me become a better writer. Before I entered my freshman year of college I didn’t know how to write. But as I undertook the writing process I was taught in class I now know how to write. First when it came to writing my assignment papers for my class I grabbed a notebook and did prewriting . I brainstormed a list of ideas for my papers. I then had a plan on everything I was going to write about. I then sit down and write my first draft. I make sure my first paragraph is a strong