My Writing Skills Have Improved Since Freshman Year

Over this quarter of English, I have learned many things out of the three to four essays that we have written. I have learned how to write college papers in the appropriate page requirements. Our teacher noticed after the first two essays we wrote that we suffered from sentence fragments, sentence run ons, and comma splices. I have learned how to fix those errors in my papers that I write. A thing I have learned about myself as a writer is that I write very well when a paper is about my personal life because it is easier to write about yourself than about a topic that you are just researching for the first time. If the paper is about my life experiences, I would get a good grade on it.

I did not have a firm writing philosophy before this semester, but I to some degree I understood the importance writing can have on a situation. Now I understand that writing has two outcomes: gaining support or losing support. When writing an essay it is best if the writing is as specific as possible. This way the audience is hopefully not left with a confused opinion about the topic. Since the beginning of the semester I have put a conscious effort to change my writing style. Instead of the box format that is learned in high school I try to use a more graceful approach while still being organized. Also, I evaluate the credibility of a source before I use the information to support my thesis and understand the roles of using ethos,

As a second-year college student, I would say my writing has developed since my first year of college. A few examples that demonstrate my writing improvements are transitioning. Transitioning has always been something I struggled in, but in this article, I believe that my transiting to each paragraph is more smooth. When I begin to close my second paragraph, I close my sentence with a sentence that gives closer to the reader and makes it easier to start the next paragraph without leaving them wondering from the previous paragraph. Another skill I improved on is my thesis statement. My thesis statement clearly states what essentially my article will be about, so the reader is able to know ahead of time what will be talked about and not left wondering. Lastly, I felt I did great was explaining the reason for my quote I chose to use. Each time I would use a quote, I would then give a good explanation incorporating it to my sentence or topic in that paragraph. Which initially I believe I have always been good at explaining my reason for the quotes I use.

When looking back at my freshman year I believe that my writing has developed and gotten stronger. When it comes to writing a task, I prefer doing writings that is opinion based. Being able to talk about issues and having a say on how you feel about it, gives

While in high school for most people, they don’t understand how important certain things may be for their future. Writing is very important for students in high school because it will forever be a part of their everyday life. No matter what career path a person choose, writing will be involved in some sort of way. Writing skills are important for high school students because it prepares them for college, creates professional writing, and helps them be successful after high school. With proper writing skills a lot more doors will open up, and more opportunities.

What I want to know sixteen weeks from now (That I do not know now)

The importance of writing at a college level is essential to communicate effectively without speaking.

The importance of writing, I found, was in what you wrote about and its purpose, writing helps you get your ideas on paper and improve simply things like sentences, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. There are many types of writing for different purposes, for this semester we focused on persuasive and research papers, but there is also poetry, fiction, creative, narratives, and even more.. I feel I have grown as a writer in the organization, wording and lead-ins of papers. I also feel I have improved in my vocabulary and using different words to give the same meaning.

I believe my writing has improved to a certain degree. As look, at where I first started. I have to say that, this course has really been a challenge for me. My time management has been completely off, however, I know that working on written assignments requires time. If there is something that I need to improve on, in order to further my writing abilities, it's definitely understanding the time is takes to write an essay, how to prepare and organized my assignments. I look at new ways now to organize my drafts, thoughts and the whole writing process itself. Brainstorming has definitely been beneficial as well as using bullet points to break down my essay. I notice that I tend to over write my paragraphs. A classmate of mine had suggested

As the semester is coming to an end and I am reflecting back on my writing skills, I can definitely say that I have changed my writing skills in a few aspects. For one is that I am writing this paper a week in advance, and before this course I would have done it the day before. I have understood the stages of writing a paper. One of the learning outcomes was to understand how to plan, draft, revise, and edit. Before I would just sit down the day of or maybe a few days before depending on how large the assignment was and I would just write the whole paper. Now, I like to outline, write a little bit out, fix it, and continue. Using this method that we learned in class has helped me with time management a lot. By planning and having drafts way in advance of the due date, saves me a lot of time when it comes to writing the final paper. In future classes I will try to set my own schedule of when these dates

During the past, few weeks and after attending class every week, I feel that my writing skills have increased drastically. I have gained more knowledge, and a better understanding of what I need to improve and how. For example, going back into high school, I would say that my favorite subject was English, yet, I would struggle with my grammar choices as well as my punctuations. My use of semi-colons would be placed in the wrong places, until now. My professor has taught us a better understanding of semi-colons that it can be placed when 2 main clauses can stand alone as their own sentences. Something I feel proud of learning and understanding is the use of parallel structure. I’ve gained some knowledge on what it is, and how to use it within sentences. The use of parallel structure has never come across in all my years of being a student until now. When I heard of it, I was kind of puzzled in a way because the saying itself seemed a little bit confusing. Once my professor started teaching the class about it and using examples for us to learn about it, it started becoming self-explanatory. During the process of writing my first essay based on the article, “Police in Schools: Keeping Kids Safe, or Arresting Them For no Good Reason” I felt pretty confident on my first draft and felt that I did such a good work. One thing I lack of as a writing is double checking my work, and re-reading my work. Although I did get good feedback on my first paper, I felt determined I did a great

Looking back at all my samples of work gave me a feeling of assurance that this semester of writing was successful. It is inevitable that developing my audience analysis, critical thinking and peer collaboration skills contributed to an improvement in the quality of my work. As the semester progressed, my pieces of work began reflecting the new understandings I gained. From my perspective, I feel that I have improved overall as a scholar, and I have achieved many of the course’s goals that were set at the beginning of the semester.

During this semester of taking English 101, I believe I have improved to some extent. In the beginning of this year I was hoping I would change the way I wrote papers to sound more like a college student. Learning how to incorporate more detail into my pieces, researching the topics, like doing interviews, and coming up with criteria are concepts that helped me grow. Continuing writing every week in this class, helped me practice, growing furthermore into the writer I want to become.

As the semester of my first year in high school comes to an end, I look back to the beginning of the year to when I had no idea on how to write a quality paper or even how to use correct format and evidence. However, with a teacher who connects with students and using tools to enhance my paper, I feel more confident in independently writing an essay. In spite of the fact that it’s been a little over four months since the beginning of the year, I feel like I have improved. From “to-be verbs” to sentence structures, I have slowly seen my work advance and progress. Although I do not have the most superior grades for my papers, in my opinion, I have improved in all skill types including reading, writing, speaking/listening, and learning

Over the past few months, I have learned several different writing techniques. While all of the different types of papers were difficult to write, I believe that my writing skills have improved. In fact, I did not understand all of the assignments, but I did try to do my best on all of them. While I should have used more transitional words in between sentences and paragraphs, I feel that I learned a great deal. It is true that I have not had very much writing experience and the writing process is difficult for me. Sometimes, I do admit, it takes days to complete one assignment, but it will be worth it when I am a proficient writer.