My Writing Experience Essay

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.

Sometimes, writing can be harder than one expects - C'est la vie! Coming into Rockhurst as a graduate of Académie Lafayette isn't the easiest thing for a student, especially in English class. Académie Lafayette (AL) is a French immersion school where classes are taught entirely in French, except for English class (of course). So, after graduating from AL, I had little experience with English and, as a result, I knew it would be one of my weaknesses.

When I was in fifth grade, I always believed I was not a writer. Math and science I understood decently but when it came to writing I was blank. For my fifth grade star test, I barely passed with a three on the writing portions and I always found telling stories on paper as dull and annoying in a way. I could never get what I was thinking into my paper, it always got lost somehow in the translation to thought and left me unsatisfied with what I wrote.

I learn best by being relaxed and concentrated in my work/jobs. I certainly learn by writing things down because it helps me memorize things in a better way and it can serve to me as a study guide as a future which helps me learn. Learning by just listing and without writing is difficult for me because I can capture that much information in my brain without writing it down it just doesn't save in my memory. In contrary if there are talking and they have a PowerPoint slide or they have something projected related to the topic then that would help me grasp that concept better and later excel in that area. For me writing things down and seeing things in slides is a better way for me to learn because it helps me obtain knowledge of the concept

This class has been the most challenging class thus far in my college career. There has never been a time where I have written a paper and it has been picked part so hard and every element scrutinized. I am very thankful that we have the professor that we have for this course that is very uplifting as well as critical when it comes to the assignments. I know for a fact that this class and the foundation that I have laid for the rest of my college career is

For as long as I can remember, I hated writing with great passion. I would do my best to opt out of my writing assignments when possible and when it was not possible I would hand in such subpar paper some of my teachers believed me to be below my appropriate class level. However, at some point, before this time, I enjoyed writing with my favorite form of writing being poetry. My attitude toward writing took a major shift when my third-grade teacher would denigrate my papers due to my creativity in writing. I would not follow her instruction prompting me to receive below average grades in most of my writing assignments. At the time I did not have a clear understanding of the error I was committing and when my mother would try to help she would push too hard on making my writing to her standards. This only furthered my growing dislike for writing.

For as long as I can remember, reading has always been a hobby of mine. Both of my parents encouraged me at a young age to pick up books, and they furthered this by reading to me often. They influenced my interest in fiction and nonfiction, and when my sister was born, I would do the same for her. Even though I still like to read, I have found more hobbies and my interests have changed. Nevertheless, I still have the same enjoyment reading my favorite literature that I had when I was little. Also, I have developed a fondness for writing in the last few years as well.

In the beginning of the semester my attitude towards writing was that I didn’t like it because I was never good at it in high school. I always made many mistakes, and didn’t put enough detail. I also wasn’t good with adding the right punctuation in my writing I was always missing commas or I had a couple run ons, or fragment sentences. My ability in critical analytical thinking was terribly bad I didn’t know what to underline or write in the margins. I was used to summarizing the little chunks with words that were already in the paragraph, but we had to write it in our own words and that was kind of hard for me. The analysis worksheet was also certainly tough for me I didn’t know what to write for any of the questions. I always messed up with

On November 21, 2017 I made the biggest mistake in my academic career. I turned in a crap essay to a college level class. I received a “B” and that is the lowest I have ever scored on an essay. This experience has taught me a lot though, it showed me my strengths and weaknesses when writing. I have learned that my writing is best when I am motivated because I am intrigued by the topic I am writing about. On the other hand my writing is the worst when it is rushed, like my “Transcendentalism and American Romanticism”essay. My writing also takes a hit because I have a hard time changing my writing based on others suggestions and my ignorance to commas.

My experiences in writing have been minimal. I have only learned the basics of writing, like putting together sentences, forming paragraphs with sentences, and things like that. Since I have been taking college English, I can tell my writing has improved a lot. In the future, I hope to be able to improve tremendously at writing essays, paragraphs, research papers, documents, and stories so that I have very little to no errors with drafting and final products. I predict I will be a well rounded writer when I graduate from college.

I never considered myself a bad writer. Not to say that I am an expert writer either. Rather, I was good at looking at a prompt and filling in the requirements for an essay and getting a good grade. It was as though in high school my writing barely scratched the surface of the topic that was assigned. I looked at the text and took it only at face value, not considering deeper motivations and meanings behind the work. In the AP English Language and Composition class I took in my senior year of high school, my teacher told us how difficult and menacing college essays would prove to be. "A"s and "B"s would be incredibly hard to achieve, and in order to do well in a college English class, we would have to overhaul our writing styles and

Writing is a major part of college courses. Most courses will require you to write a paper to pass the course. Writing has not always been something that I have excelled in. I was never a good writer from the start. This paper is to show where I have struggled in the past, currently and where I improved in my writing. It will explain where I got help in years previous to Neumann University along with my first semester at Neumann University. This will include grammar, word choice, using resources from the local library and correctly citing them. I will also explain how my one class in my high school graded my whole paper wrong for using “I” and how I used that information in my classes now to improve on that and not let it happen in the future.

"I have not failed. I 've just found ten thousand ways that won 't work," Thomas A. Edison must have known what he was talking about, right? These words have been inspiration for many people over many years, including myself, at least since I began my first writing course. I have come to wonder if I have become a decent writer or just a less awful one. Going through past essays, both final drafts and rough drafts, I have come to realize how awful I actually was and how much I have improve. Despite this improvements, I still have distinct mechanical errors I need to keep working on. Nevertheless, my ability to research, and my sense of responsibility have improved as well since this is one of the few classes that demands me to progressively work on assignments during the semester, reminding me as well the fact that college does not come cheap whether in terms of money, time, or effort.

It’s my first class of the year, not knowing what to expect I entered the room with absolute nervousness and fear, after all it was my second English class of college. Although, I’ve never been quite fond of writing in the past, I’ve always done well in the English class in high school. I had yet to work to hard for my grade and no English course I had taken proved to be a challenge in my eyes. But, I have always been a huge procrastinator, if not one of the biggest when it comes to writing. Most of the time I wrote the papers a couple nights before or sometimes even the day of and still managed to average a “C” on all of them. That is why I failed English the first time I took it. I was screwing myself over with this bad habit, but it was so hard to change except for this year. I believed that with the right focus and skills I could finally be a wonderful writer. Throughout this semester to become a better and stronger writer for my future education, I have learned about having a good introduction paragraph, functional conclusion, and peer review.

During my first year of highschool, I was held to a higher standard, than my previous years at middle school. A lot of the teachers at my school were preparing us for a college level experience. One teacher, especially, was pretty hard on us and she was the English teacher. The first major paper that was assigned was a research paper that had to discuss a historical event and how that event impacted the world. Since this was my first major paper and I was used to this kind of writing, I ended up writing specifically about Alexander the Great and the wars that he fought in. I specifically detailed the battles and what was going on, but I did not talk about how it impacted the world. My teacher offered to proof read the papers two days before the deadline so we could fix any critical errors. I showed her my paper and she said that if I turned that paper in, I would receive an F on the paper. I always strive to get good grades and to pass with all A’s, so when my teacher said this, I immediately realized how important writing could be and I started to develop my writing skills. All of the factors that were in this situation, made it a rhetorical situation.