My Writing Style Analysis

Like transforming from a caterpillar to a butterfly, my writing style transformed from something mediocre to something quite exceptional. In high school, even when I took advanced placement English and Literature courses, I was never good at writing. My writing would lack structure, reasoning, syntax, and a well-defined thesis statement. My inadequate grades on writing assignments lowered my self-esteem, so I assumed I would never enjoy writing papers because I believed I could never improve. However, since attending a university my writing style has improved far beyond my expectation. My EN 101 course enhanced my understanding of the different ways I could approach my writing. Also, it enhanced my comprehension of outlines to complete assignments. Investing quality time into my writing made a substantial difference because I became a stronger writer. Through the late nights, constant revisions, and agonizing head traumas, I learned that my writing is truly spectacular whenever I incorporate well-defined thesis statements, provide sufficient supporting evidence, and maintain a clear focus in my assignments.

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

During my time spent in the English 110 I endured a writing style of APA that was barely introduced to me in high school. The most beneficial things I learned throughout my research process this year is the use of the writing center and librarians , the online databases, and the moodle forum post allowed me not only to succeed in English 110, but will give me beneficial techniques to use in future papers I will have to write.

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

Before going into the details of what I’ve learnt from this assignment, I would like to give a

Whenever I get a writing assignment for class, it seems like a chore. I don’t have a problem with writing, but papers always seem to take more time than they should. Maybe this is due to poor planning on my part, but essays are usually an ordeal, and I dread actually doing the work to finish one. The task is simple enough, but putting it off always seems like a better alternative to writing. I do think about the paper that I have to write, but I do not put thoughts and ideas into a paper or outline until I absolutely need to do so. From the moment I am given an assignment sheet, I begin brainstorming about the paper. I may not use any of these ideas, but I think of them. I also have a tendency to forget good ideas, which leads me to think

My topic is to talk about why the combination of adventure and romance genres is necessary to attract adult female readers. I made a mistake in my first draft, since I was trying to analyze four different genres in five pages. Clearly, I did not analyze any one of them well because I just introduced the genre convention without precisely evidence as a back up. In my second draft, another problem appeared. I analyzed two genres separately, which was not helpful to demonstrate my overall thesis. So in my final draft, I analyze three main figures from the perspectives of the romance plot and the adventure plot. I claim that the romance and adventure are inseparable and explain specifically why the combination of these two genres is the key to attract female adult readers using the textual evidences of the three main figures. Another big problem is that, I did not integrate quotations and evidences properly. I used to summarize the plot too much without explaining why these plots can support my claim. For example, in general, I should let my readers have a clear idea to concentrate in the first paragraph. However, in my first draft, I summarized the story in six sentences and weakened the presence of topic sentence. So in my final draft, I summarize The Princess Bride briefly in two sentences, so the reader can concentrate on my topic more. For another example, when

Analyze specific rhetorical contexts, including circumstance, purpose, topic, audience, and writer, as well as the writing's ethical, political, and cultural implications.

Most of my English 102 writing projects are rhetorical arguments, intended to persuade the reader in one direction or another. Reflecting on the many skills I honed in English 102, my predetermined use of rhetorical strategies (ethos, logos, pathos), developing a concise thesis statement, and clearly defining

From this course, some of the most important ideas and concepts I have learned about writing in various disciplines is how to effectively interact with my peers during discussion in online posts and in person using “They Say/I Say” techniques, create literature reviews on current academic topics, and make a memo and proposal. I believe that my style of writing has improved and broadened over the semester in terms of citing information in both MLA and APA style, critically analyzing literature and academic articles, and positively critiquing and collaborating with other students on their work as well as mine. I believe that I still need to practice and work on literary analyses; at times I would find myself struggling to develop a narrow and specific thesis and generate the rest of my analysis from it.

There are many writing styles that many people pick up as they go through there many years of schooling. Each person picks up the same type of writing styles but as years go by people seem to pick up there own little types of writing style that separates them from everyone else. As I have gone through many years of English classes I have acquired more and more skills and many more are sure to come as I continue my education. My writing skills have only gotten better from the time of ninth grade English class until today. Since my days back in junior high school I was only taught the basic skills to write papers and since then they have grown to make me a decent writer. I have many strengths and also

Thirdly, I learned how to define a specific targeted audience group, and how to choose medium. In class, my professor showed an advertisement about a fast food restaurant. In the advertisement, hamburgers were healthy. The targeted audience is very specific when we analyzed. The fast food restaurant wanted people who thought hamburger were unhealthy to buy their hamburger, and fat people continued buying their hamburger. After seeing this advertisement, I knew the importance of targeted audience. That was also the reason why I changed my audience of my RIP project. Therefore, I improve a good habitat. I always think about my audience when I write my essay. What’s will appeal them, and what’s the specific influence on them. Another things that

Writing essay is one of the things that I used to dislike before. For me, writing an essay was a difficult and boring thing. However, I change my mind when I was doing the assignment, “Persuasive Essay”. This essay is my first English essay, and it was a quite challenging task for me. In this assignment , I learned a lot. For example, to use the transition words to connect each paragraph. Also, to use other writer’s words to make my idea be more powerful. Thus, this assignment improves my writing skills a lot.

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary

While learning about rhetorical situations, we analyzed a Taylor Swift music video. We determined the audience and their nature, the motivation behind the author, the purpose of the piece as well as additional context regarding the situation the piece pertains to. By analysing a music video that the majority of us knew the backstory to, we were able to fully engage and enjoy the analysis. Since we were so involved, we were able to fully understand rhetorical situations. With our new found knowledge, we were able to incorporate rhetorical situations into our own papers throughout the course. In our persuasive essays, we were able to use rhetoric situations by determining who our audience was, the context of our paper, and our purpose behind writing it. This allowed me to write stronger and more effective papers during the semester.