My Writing Skills And The Way I Develop My Career

Throughout this semester I have learned many valuable resources, and tools. The big thing you taught us was how to write and argument paper. Also I have learned different tools on summarizing, how to better my skills for peer reviews, new library skills, and MLA format. Most of these I already knew, but you taught us them more in depth, and you gave me better understandings of them.

A semester has passed since I started college and my journey of becoming a better writer. It has been a very important semester for my future college career, and I would not be here without the things I have accomplished. The composition program has really helped me to prepare for what college writing is all about. Now standing here and looking back I could not imagine how it would be without that class. I believe my English, and my writing is better than it has ever been, and all thanks to the composition program.

With the anxiety flowing throughout my body, I knew the time was near of facing my English 1301 class. Being told that I needed to improve my writing during my grade school days, I knew that I didn’t feel at ease going into a college level English class. But, with this in mind I had to pull myself together to encounter the challenges that I will face. However, having the privilege of having an amazing professor I believe my writing skills improved, also I was able to find my confidence.

There are many different things a person can do to improve their skills as a writer. Some are as simple as read more and write a lot. A good strategy that I use is to write down all of my ideas as soon as I think of them. Having these written down helps because they can inspire me and help me go directly into writing. That blank piece of paper staring at you may be intimidating, but don’t think about it, just start writing. A really good way to improve your writing skills is to practice.

Writing is not a profession for me, it's more like a path to reach Zen. I'm a budding creative writer who focusses on coming up with meaningful contents which can help my readers in some way or the other. So, needless to say, I don't do crappy jobs at all.

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.

My final reflection paper is an overview of what l have learnt during the semester, by figuring out what I didn’t do right and my reason for having a low score grade on my essay, and what l intended to do for a better grade in my next English class.

During the fifteen weeks I was in English 1104, I learned more about English than all four years of high school. Even though this semester came with a few challenges, I became a better writing along the way. Sadly, I quickly learned that my high school classes did not have me fully prepared for college. Strong sentence structure and correct grammar were one out a few skills I was having a tough time with. Since the class had five completely different types of essays to write was something that helped me dearly this semester. Each assignment and topic brought out a different obstacle for me to overcome.

Over the course of this semester, I grew immensely as a writer. I have learned what my weak points are as a writer, what my strengths are, and how I can revise a paper using resources. I have learned how to organize my thoughts and give clear, vivid details. Also, I have learned that the paper is only as good as the ideas behind it. Throughout this semester, all aspects of my writing have changed.

Throughout this course, I discovered just how bad a writer I was. At the very beginning we had to introduce our selves. There was a small section in that paragraph where I mentioned that I hate writing essay. I mentioned that I’ve never been good at them and I rarely got good scores. However, I feel as though I have greatly improved my writing skills during this course. I’ve picked up several rules and have made the most out of this class. I am very proud of myself and the work I have put forth into this class in efforts of improving my essay writing skills.

During the summer of 2017 I was able experience my first experience of college level english, as it has been known, it's not easy. College level English was definitely gonna be tricky, since I kinda knew what to except, and I knew my writing skills were not the best. I knew for a fact that I have bad grammar issues it's how it's always been for me and it did show on the first difficult assignment I was assigned. Every assignment was important but the paper take the crown on utmost important since they make up most of your grade. On my first assignment I was asked to create a narrative about an experience in my life.The expeireince for the narrative had to cover no more than an entire day if possible. The day I was given the assignment, I went home and immediately started to brainstorm ideas. The brainstorming process was no easy task. I had a few ideas in my head but i wanted to go and try to organize them as much as possible before I began to start writing my paper. I used a master note set up where I would first outline how the story would be laid out and then I'd go into adding further details to support each of the paragraphs. The only feedback I was able to get was If the story was acceptable. After my research I began to start writing out my rough draft. I did do some research on narrative papers to try to get an idea of how to go about presenting my story. My first story was very narrowed down because I had a feeling I could not tell the best story

English has always been my second least favorite subject. No matter it will always be a subject I don’t like because of all the writing. Since junior year in high school however, I think I have been enjoying it a lot more. Throughout this class I learnt new things, not a lot of new thing, but new important things. I have improved in my use of quotations, something I have struggled with since sophomore year of high school. I still have hiccups from time to time, but that’s just part of the writing process. All the revising made me realize I make a lot of the same mistakes in each paper, so I should work harder to eliminate those mistakes all together. We wrote a lot of things, we revised a lot of things, but the essay I will be talking about are Writing Task B and Essay 1. These two essays mark two different stages in this class and I am going too discuss how I went about writing these and how the final product, in my own opinion, came out.

When the school year first started, I thought English class in junior year would be easy based on my performance in sophomore Honors English. However, AP English Language and Analysis has proven to be a difficult and rigorous course. I had struggled both as a student and as a writer in the beginning of the year, but I had learned to recognize several chronic problems I had made in my writing. Through the past school year, my writing skills had matured as I strived to fix issues in my writing. The improvements in my writing skills can best be seen through the growing conciseness, fluency, and analytical thinking in my essays.

Before I took my first college-level english course, I’d only had to do research for an essay on several occasions, and even then they weren’t even close to as long as the one I’ve written most recently. Up until now, all of my language arts classes were filled with things that I already knew, easy things that didn’t require me to change my writing style much, which likely explains why they were so boring. My approach to writing has changed throughout the process of taking an English 101 class.

The goal of college writing this semester was to raise my writing level up to college standards. At the beginning of the semester, my teacher gave my classmates and I a set of learning objectives that we needed to overcome to better our writing. The mastering of these writing components were a sure way to improve the level we wrote at. After thinking about it for some time, I came to the conclusion that I had indeed mastered all three of these objectives and after doing so, I came to the conclusion that my writing level has indeed raised to a higher degree of standards seen at the college level.