Personal Narrative: Becoming A Better Writer

My experiences as a writer have been both very engrossing and strenuous. I have learned a great quantity on both reading and writing, though, I continue to struggle on things that I have learned by this time, making the same mistakes that I do not even realize. Sometimes things are not so easy to understand when reading information, especially if the wording of an article is difficult for example. I love the idea of learning new things everyday. These past years as a writer have been very interesting, and I have learned and grasped many concepts I have been taught along the way.

On the first day of class, having forgotten how to write over the blazing summer, I had high hopes I would gain some writing skill. Over the course of the last 10 weeks I learned not only that I am an extreme procrastinator, but that I had a lot to learn in the writing world. I learned many things about writing, including grammar, organization, and expression. Through late nights studying and practice in class, I can proudly say I'm a better writer than I was before.

I have never been much of a writer, but I can’t say I completely hate it. For as long as I can remember, I was always one of the kids that would sigh when a teacher assigned an essay for the class. One reason for having a dislike towards writing was because it takes a lot of thought and time to even think of how to begin. However, as I grew older, I came to the conclusion that writing isn’t all that bad. I actually found writing quite interesting when I get the chance to write about something that I strongly care about. So writing to me is bittersweet, depending on if it’s something that interests me or not.

I have never taken an online class so I am actually very nervous on how it will go. Also, being an honors course, which I’ve never taken doesn’t make things a little better. I really enjoy writing about specific topics or ideas. Writing creatively isn’t me, but anything to help improve my writing skills. Hopefully all goes well and I pass the course to continue to move on in my degree plan.

My first thought about writing is dreadful, writing does not come natural for me is hard to focus on a main theme and then tried to expand on it. So for me writing would be the sooner I can finish the faster I can get it over with. However writing has also improved many of my lacking skills. I learn how to shape the body for writing, creating an outline and different ways on brainstorming. I still need a lot of help improving or developing writing skills. Also taking a few of writing classes has even improved any basic writing work I do, I improve my resume, referral letters also I can say that my communication has improved.

There are many aspects that I would like to change to improve my writing skills. The first thing I would like to do is imply what my main idea is instead of stating it. The main reason I want to improve on this is because I feel that my writing style doesn’t change. I want my writing to be complex. I know that implying the main idea can be a little tricky. I’ve been researching and I’m learning that I need to find the common bond among the details in the passage. I think this issue affected me when I took college composition one because I chose to write an essay about school lunches affecting children’s diets. For the body of my paragraph, every sentence began with “the school association needs to”. My style was just too plain and boring. I

My mother always told me that if I wanted to be a proficient writer, then I would have to first be a proficient reader. Looking backwards at a childhood full of all sorts of warm memories and events, writing was something I always wanted to excel at. I immediately think of one of the first times I was able to comprehend literature, for instance, which was when I was seven years old. My mother would read to me out of the classic Dr. Seuss books and my expression was similar to that of other children my age, in total awe at how amazing it was to listen to the words and actually understand what the words meant by identifying them with the pictures drawn in the script.

To many of my school classmates writing came as second nature; to me not so much. It was clear that my weak relationship with writing was going to be an issue if I didn’t get a grip on it. Writing has constructed many obstacles in my life, but with the right words and guidance I continue to overcome the language.

I have changed a lot academically throughout seventh grade. For an example my writing skill have improved. I have been able to write paper with less stress involved. I also have gotten a lot better at math too. This year i have been challenged in math and it has helped me become better in math. Overall i have become a better student and learned a lot.

I gathered the Information and skills to learn this by writing a lot and always asking someone else their opinion or how to do it if I didn’t know it.

In the six weeks summer class, I learned a lot about the writing process. I learned that it has five steps. I learned that before you start to write an essay, one must do the following things Prewriting, Drafting, Revision, Editing, and Publishing.

My experience with writing instructors were exactly how this reading described them. They always told me to practice my grammar, so I could become a better writer. A writer to them was someone who could properly use syntax and grammar throughout their paper. I was one of the students who could not have a grammarless paper because my view of writing was different from my instructors. I learned the incorrect way of writing, the way that was imbedded in my English exams. The "professional way of writing is having no grammar mistakes" or the one where "writing does not change in your other classes". Something else that was deferent from my professor and I , was the view of writing in different classes. Each class had their own audience that required

I believe my approach with writing has drastically changed throughout this semester. I have learned to become more prepared and take my time in writing my essays rather than just jumping into them without a clue of what is to come. I grew even more than I had originally expected. I’ve been able to share some things that have happened in my past, and I have been satisfied with how I was able to write them. I’ve learned more about commas and sentence structure this year than I’ve learned in the last two years combined. Two areas that still need improvement are my grammar and my commas. I do not always pay attention to what I am saying, and I just ramble on without going back to check what I wrote. Most of the time it gets pretty crazy.

I have always said that writing is stressful for me; I can never find the correct format or focus on a main theme, however I do have to acknowledge that any mastering skill does require practice, an as much as I dread writing I have to admit that I have improve significantly. Now my grammar is the least of my worries, which in the past would have been the first. I have also learned the basic skills that come with any type of writing; outlining, brainstorming, citing, quotes, and drafts.

Writing is a method of representing language in visual or tactile form. Before reading this unit I did not realize that I did not have great writing habits and the skills necessary to adequately convey my message. Like with anything in life you need to have a plan or technique, some kind of checklist that you can follow in your mind. In this chapter there are many ideas that will help me become a more effective writer and thinker. One of the most important things that I learned in this unit was how to effectively use the five step writing process. This is something I never knew about or learned in high school. I always just wrote whatever I had on my mind onto my paper and made a few changes here and there. My writing was good but not as good