Personal Narrative: My Life And College Writing

Throughout the course of freshmen year I have developed different skills and opinions on writing. I feel I have created a more mature style of writing and a better understanding of literature. I have changed my view of writing over this semester and acquired a strong liking for it. The importance of writing has become more visible throughout the past few months. Writing is crucial in many aspects of a person’s life. I have grown to be a more powerful and well built writer throughout this course.

Well for me writing is my weak point. Although it is my weak point I have still been learning and I am up for more opinions on how to better my writing skills. I can say that my writing skills have gone up some since I have been enrolled Bethel University. When I first started here I was terrified, especially when I found out that Bethel is a writing based college. I still get nervous and scared at the beginning of every class and I stay nervous till I see how I am doing in the class. There has been many teachers that have helped inspire me and those that have taught me to never give up no matter what. So the advice I would give to my boss or family is to never give up. We all face hard times and we all have things we are not so good at. It

When I look back at my writing before having any college experience, I can see that I had a lot to work on. I can say that I was never really a big fan of writing anything much less essays. Even when I was younger, I just did not have a great big interest in writing. This was because I felt that I could not elaborate as well as others. I was not use to having to write anything really, but I now feel that I have a better grasp on the steps that I need to take to get my writing on the level that it needs to be.

During this semester, I learned more about writing than I have throughout my whole high school career. The first thing we really covered was parallelism and that was probably the most used topic in all of our writing. To be completely honest I think this was the first time I had ever heard about parallelism and I still have no idea how to use it. We really focused on comma placement because in the beginning we were all just putting commas in random places, but now I feel as a whole we learned how to use them much more efficiently. We covered semicolons and where to place them, but still do not know how to use them either. During this semester I definitely improved my writing based on the fact that we wrote a ton, but I do not think my writing techniques have improved as much as I would’ve liked them to.

Throughout my high school career, I have been exposed to many different elements of writing and, although some teachers have emphasized certain areas more than others, I feel I have come a long way as a writer. Despite this I also know I have much further to go. This fact became very clear to me as I was taking my previous course of English, Accelerated English Three. Within this course I was introduced to the MLA method of citation, I experienced disappointment due to receiving a lower grade than I had desired, and I discovered difficulties such as my impatient tendencies to look over errors and mistakes during the editing processes.

My experience with writing has been very up and down because I have a hard time focusing on the topic. I would say that’s something I need to honestly work on because my attitude is if I'm not into it then I'm not doing it simple. Some of my past teachers in high school said that I could write but I honestly don’t know about now. I'll admit that I've gotten lazy in the sense that if I'm not into the work then I'll just pass it with a D or just retake it. I need to get out of that and just suck it up and get it over and done with.

This paper was designed to gives us a small insight into what college writing would be like while still giving us the freedom to find an interesting topic that pertained to both the writer and the reader/class. What this research paper did was make me view writing in a different way, because contrary to the smaller 3 page papers I was used to knocking out in 45 minutes, I was forced to sit down and try to understand the several different research sources I had found. I also had to go more in depth with what I was writing and formulate my sentences to try and explain and help the reader understand what I was trying to say about my topic while still trying to open the reader up to my point of view. All while writing this paper our teacher was also giving back mass amounts of constructive criticism at a college level to help improve our writing skills. This research paper help expand how I viewed writing essays past that of regular required 5 body paragraph essays that can be done in 45 minutes of one English

Earning a B in my first college writing course was the first time felt like a successful writer. English in general has always been one of my stronger subjects, but I struggle with writing the most. I tend to get overwhelmed by the writing process. Seeing my grade was evidence that I could communicate effectively through writing. I have not only expanded my knowledge for writing from College Writing, but I also gained confidence as a writer. My process as a writer starts with a blank page on Microsoft Word. To get creative juices flowing, I free write ideas down as they are generated, whether they be fragments or sentences. After getting all the ideas out, I form them into more complete sentences if needed. Next I sort sentences groups based

Warned about the difference in difficulty of academia in college as I wrote essays for standardized tests, I prepared my academic work to adapt to my surroundings. However, these preparations didn’t come close to the quality hands on experiences I have obtained in my freshmen year. When I concluded my first semester at Montclair State University, I utilized the knowledge I gained about the composition of a proper essay and apply it to my writing. My writing improved significantly when compared to the essays I produced as a student in high school. However, as the academic year comes to an end, I have found that I have exercised the true meaning of adaptability over the course of this semester. This time has been a period of growth where I have exercised my reasoning

At the beginning of College Prep Writing, I wasn’t sure how much I was going to learn. I had learned so much from past English classes and thought I was already a pretty good writer. I was surprised to learn of all the new information I was going to be taught. There were things that I wouldn’t have

In my first semester of Composition 1, I have learned a lot on how to improve my writing and that it is a never ending process. When you think you proofread something goes through it again. I have learned a lot this first semester hoping for my second semester of composition to apply those skills I have learned to the different papers I will be writing. This class will help my future self because I will know how to write a good paper not just for college but whatever career I will go to and how to format those letters, e-mails or a proposal letter better.

When I got into college I came to a rude awakening and realized college writing is way harder than high school writing. I knew that my writing techniques had to change I just wasn’t sure how to change them. My college professors were a lot harder when it came to grading and seemed to be pickier. My writing now wasn’t just about a grade my writing now is about understanding what I am writing and to be able to get

Writing is one of the components in English that gradually took many effort and dedication. My experience in writing so far has improved. Writing was one of the things, I struggled with in school. My writings were on topics, books, and poems. In High school, I knew I needed to improve in writing, so in my Junior and Senior year I took Advanced Placements classes for English.

As a writer, I realized coming into college that my writing was not necessarily bad by any means, but instead extremely uninteresting. After leaving the public

After the initial stumbling block more commonly known as residential life, I faced the towering challenge of settling into classes. Once I had registered (which was itself something of a dilemma), I had in my hand a sheet of abbreviations that rivaled a military briefing or a computer manual. My first class, on a Thursday morning, was located in a building called CBW, which stood for Classroom Building West. Surely the