Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Writing Class

There are many experiences that have shaped the way I write today. For example, during my senior year at Plainfield Central High School, I struggled with finding a way to put my paper together using ideas and words of my own. My senior English teacher always said, “Writing a paper is not always just citing what you found on a website. You need to add your own thoughts and comments to make your paper more personal.” She sat down with me after class and worked on my paper with me to try and teach me a way to find my own words and it worked. She had me write the paper before finding any type of citations on the internet. That way, it was all my own words and then I could find my sources and add them in there and delete anything of my own if needed. Another example is, when I was sitting at my kitchen table struggling to find the words to make the paper have good detail. My mother looked at me and said, “Write how you want it to be written. Write it in the way you believe will make a good paper.” That has helped me tremendously because when I write how I want to write, I generally like how my papers turn out so much more. Another thing that has helped me was, about one time every week I would sit down and write about anything I can think of. It could be what I am looking forward to doing in the future or even just what is on my mind at that moment. I realized that the more I write, the better I get at it.

I believe I have grown a lot since the beginning of this course. My writing was severely lacking grammar and punctuation. I didn’t use any punctuation other than periods and very few commas spersed throughout my papers. My papers still need help in that area, but I have improved. I now know where they need to go and when it’s appropriate to use them. My papers aren’t exactly flawless but they are better than before. I would write how I speak at times and I knew it wasn’t right, but I would still do it because it allowed my papers to flow better in my mind. I read my papers out loud to help avoid my problem with writing how I speak. I’ve learned my writing style in this course, or lack thereof. I found a program that would benefit me now and

We learn to write at an early age. First, we learn to write words. Words become sentences, which forms paragraphs, then becomes essays. Overtime, we learn the rules of writing, and we practice them. Whether or not the expertise level of writing is met, we learn the basics and eventually become confident writers. Although I have been taught the art of writing, I have gathered from the feedback of my previous teachers and peers that my writing still needs improvement.

Thank you for your helping with my case. I am so glad that I don’t need to add another reading and writing class in this semester.

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary the word refine is a verb that means “to improve (something) by making small changes”. This word perfectly describes my goals as an out of practice writer and new college student. In order to make improvements as a writer a person must be willing to make mistakes. They must be open and accepting of any feedback whether it is negative or positive. After all, you cannot refine your skills and become a better writer if you aren’t willing to take the bad with the good and learn from your mistakes.

What I did to learn how to write was to pull my English teachers aside for help or focused more in class.

College Writing 1 is my first college writing class ever, I have high hopes I will learn a lot. I hope during this class I learn how to correctly cite different sources, learn new styles of writing, and fine tune the writing skills I already have. I think the most challenging part of this class will be keeping up with all the different writings we do, from journal entries to a research paper. Another thing that will be a challenge is the amount of words needed for each paper. I will need to practice how to write more in depth to make sure I at least hit the two hundred fifty word mark. The thing I am most excited for with this class is to be able to write again. As a former writer for the Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania newspaper, writing food

Ever since I was in ninth grade, I leaned towards writing subjects naturally. They always appealed to me because it was a medium to express thought and feeling. Most importantly, writing classes would allow you to tell a story, which for me, is the funnest. No matter what the medium may be, stories are always something appealing to me. In ninth grade, I knew no one but at least people had a story to tell. They were one of the most appealing stories I had heard. One classmate explained how she had to overcome autism and often times, she was looked down on. Another classmate told us how he had to live with an alcoholic father who is in prison for murder. No matter what the story may be, I am always entertained and no matter what, I always get something out of them.

I came into this semester with an idea. An idea of reading and writing more to expand a world of my own. Something I've learned during my time in my English and Creative Writing classes is that reading can open up a much larger gateway to the imagination than anything else can. This is the most I have ever read in this short of a time span; over seven books in roughly five months. That has not counted in all the short stories and the Dungeons and Dragons modules I have read. With all the reading I have done, I have opened my own imagination even more to help with my own writing. R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt has helped me the most throughout this semester. I have read five of his thirty-two book series and am starting on the sixth. Salvatore

The question is, what have I learned in this class. Well to start, as I can remember going all the way back to the first day of class, I learned the key to actually taking my time, to actively think and revise everything that comes my way. I should not just take weird looking things out of context as to just thinking it is junk or not meeting the standards of a pain old piece of work that I am normally used to seeing. I learned that art comes I many shapes and sizes. For instance, a particular piece from artist Chris Ofili, a best of mine but not a favorite.

Ever since I started attending Mrs.Kigar’s 1st hour Senior Comp. class, my writing skills have expanded into a new level. I learned a lot about writing for example; before this class I had never heard of parallelism and didn’t know the impact it had on writing. Another part of my stylistic learning was learning about transitions, semicolons, commas, and apostrophes. I also wrote almost every different style of paper too which really helps in improving the ability to write.

I was surprised how many of my classes taught me these concepts; I knew those classes were setting out to teach me not only the material specific to that class, but also valuable skills that can be used in a variety of situations, but it was still surprising. While I was going through my list of classes I realized that even though some of them are unnecessary for my degree I don’t regret taking them as I learned much more than I thought. I found that most of my classes built upon the skills I had learned in previous classes, even when those classes had nothing to do with one another. I learned part of a skill in one class and the rest in a completely unrelated class later.

A few weeks ago before first semester ended I needed to do finals so that my grade could go up or retake tests so that we are passing our classes. During the last week of first semester I was really stressed out because I didn’t finish a presentation that needed to be presented that week.

There are many small things that you learn in a classroom that you do not think will help you in any way. However, things that you first learned in the classroom will be useful when you are in conversations or you are arguing a certain point. An example is the debate activity we did in class which many people took lightly and they really did not appreciate. I will be addressing 3 things I have learned this year and how they are useful when it comes to the real world and the classroom.

.in my high school I never really paid attention to my writing skills . I was focus upod sports. I never saw myself writer, my English class I was never taken seriously because the teacher was always gone and we just watched movies almost every day. I never done any essay and I did not take time to practice instead of watching movies. but this course I have learn how to write better essays. during class I have done three essays. Our first essay was letter to an Author, and it was challenges our professor give us three to four articles, to choose one and talk about the one you interest more. for me I chose the one I think interest more. I chose. I Owe It All to Community College by Tom Hanks. I like this article because its about how