Personal Narrative: Improving My Writing Skills

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During this semester, I have learned multiple things in English 1020. Not only have I learned new writing techniques and how to find and use credible sources, but I have also improved my writing skills. Throughout this semester, I focused on the topic of abortion, which, not surprisingly, I regretted soon after completing my annotated bibliography. However, by choosing this very biased topic I was able to give myself an academic challenge. I was challenged greatly when it came to forming and writing my own ethical opinion, as well as finding unbiased sources to help guide my research. Looking back at this semester I was faced with many bumps in the road, but now reading through the many revisions I put myself through, I have noticed the huge improvement I was able to make through this single English course.

Since the first day of 8th grade I have dramatically improved my writing skills. I never worked hard on my papers since before 8th and I was never a good writer. Now I have come to a point where I am more productive and creative when I write and I worked harder than I used to.

Doing the inventory exercise, I have learn that I have many style as a writer. According to inventory exercise I am a independent, pragmatic, verbal, rational, abstract style writer. The two ways I would like to improve myself as a writer by using more rational in verbal in my writing. Rational reply on facts and information, while verbal rely on language, usually written text, to acquire information. (successful college writing) By use more rational in verbal in some of the writing style in the exercise inventory, I am hoping that it will improve my writing skills.

I never thought that the years would go by so quickly and I am senior now. For having three years in Western High, I learned a lot of things especially educationally and academically. I experienced many things in this school. There were a great times and bad times as well. English is my least favorite subject, which I struggles many times. When I looked back those essays in my portfolio, I couldn’t believe that I wrote a bunch of essays during my three years. There were some great essays and terrible essays. I noticed that on my essays I struggled on these three focus areas: organization, weak evidence and grammar/spelling.

Welcome. I am currently a first year student at the University of California, Merced and I am majoring in Psychology. I set up this portfolio as a documented reflection on the process I made during the semester in Writing 001. This shows the beginning of my milestone of college writing in my first year of UCM. There are different categories of the PLO that helps me define the skills that I have achieved upon the course. In the beginning of the semester, I knew that I would be introduced to many fields of writing. I know there is much more to learn and to improve, but also I feel like my writing skills slowly progressed since the beginning of this class. Since I was little, I wasn't a big fan of any writing assignments at school. Even if it

I have recently discovered that I am not that good at putting together a collage paper. I received a D on my most recant paper in my collage English class. I have always known writing was not my best quality, but I did not know I was this horrible. Although I have many, many weaknesses in my writing skills, I actually have a few strengths as well. I am going to need quite a bit of help with my writing process in my collage papers for the future.

I feel that I have improved in my writing in tons of ways. One example is my commas. I used to put a comma here and there, even if it didn't belong there. When I started my sixth grade year I didn't know comma rules or some comma causers. Looking back at previous writings I can see how much I have improved, yet I'm still not perfect with writing. I still have a few problems with commas, but I'm much better than I was. There is still room for me to improve and I look forward to it.

Last week I started working on my portfolio. As I looked over articles I wrote in the past, I realized that my writing skills need work. My writing is awkward, wordy, and usually in the passive voice. These skills can be improved with practice, and Grammarly is helping me see my mistakes. Do you have any tips on finding a writing mentor?

During this semester, I have strengthened my writing by trying new writing techniques, learning about purpose, and finding new ways of combating writers block. My first essay in this class was less focused then the essays I wrote later in

From start to finish I could say I’ve had a pretty big year for myself. In the summer of 2016 I couldn’t have told you the difference between a counterclaim and a body paragraph, however now I could explain everything in detail, start to finish, like it’s the back of my hand. Throughout my year in enriched english I have immensely made a huge change in how I write and the style I go about it, and I couldn’t be happier. With the help of a wonderful teacher, I was successfully able to watch myself grow in my writing skills throughout the course of the year.

During this second semester I have been trying to accomplish my goals from first semester. These goals include being able to write smoother introductory and conclusion paragraphs, maintaining an A in ELA 10, and improving my writing in any way possible. I took many steps to complete these goals. First of all, I maintained an A in ELA by turning in everything on time and turning in quality work. Second, I improved my writing by continuing to write often and using newly learned concepts in my writing. However, my last goal is still a work in progress. I have been working on my introductions and conclusions by trying new methods out in my essays. For example, in my Of Mice And Men essay I tried starting my introduction with a quote, which I hadn’t done before. In my opinion, I think I met my goals very well and followed the steps I needed to to become successful in achieving my goals. To conclude, I successfully completed most of my goals and got the results I wanted.

At the end of this semester reflecting on my work in your English 160 class, I can very easily see how much I have improved as a writer and as a reader. I have started to notice my strengths and weaknesses on the papers I write and to learn from all of them. I have also started writing the “Shitty Drafts” and the feedbacks on several assignments and peer reviews, helped me a lot to improve my writing skills. I also learned to frame proper sentences with passive and active voice, editing other papers helped me to realize my strengths and weaknesses. My portfolio includes three Writing Projects “Art Review- Picasso”, “Profile- Science Learning Center”, “Beware- Argument Paper on Gun Violence”. I have learned to use information on different topics effectively and legally. I have improved my writing skills to write MLA formatted papers with proper citation and learned how to revise, edit, and proofread others and my own papers. After the learnings from this class, though I still have a lot of areas to improve, I think now I have developed better and effective writing skills.

Writing is one of the most difficult subjects I have taken on this spring semester. Being able to identify the different types of essays as well as putting my skills together to write them is the most difficult to me. Although I have learned from the negative and positive feedback, I still feel there is a huge area that needs improvement. Starting this out I didn’t quite know what to expect or what level my writing skills were at. I will most definitely be able to use what I’ve learned for my future education as well as my future career. Intellectually I know I had a smart, compassionate instructor that just wanted to absolute best for me in this aspect.

Throughout this quarter I have been able to address certain weaknesses and strengths I have in my writing. Some of which I have been able to conquer, and some I am still working on. I have been able to use the skills I have learned in my current Lit class and will be able to use them next quarter in my English 201 class. This class has been more helpful to me than any other English class I’ve been in. It allowed me to explore writing papers about myself, rather than writing book reports or research papers. That ultimately helped me to become more confident in my writing, instead of always second guessing myself and my ideas.