Personal Narrative: What I Learned In The Class

One great tip while writing is to turn off the perfectionist part in you. There is always a perfect time to turn it on. Guess when? You can turn it on when you're proofreading and editing.

While not a hugely transformative venture, I have found this semester to be a good vehicle for making my writing more accurate to its intended purpose. Prior to taking this class I did have some experience in professional writing for a few of the jobs I've had in the past, but this class organized those thoughts, gave them name, and pointed out where and how to pursue them. Its been an enlightening experience and provided me with tools I hope to use the rest of my life.

Conventions, spelling in particular, are my weakness. I sometimes can’t spell words close enough that even spell check can guess what I’m trying to say (luckily I can say it to my tablet and it will write the word). I would rather read my chemistry textbook twice then take spelling tests (and I’ll actually do it too). Anyways I could also work on grammar. I’m not sure of instances when I would use then or than and things like that. I also need to work on editing. I get so busy writing then so absorbed in trying to edit my paper that I seem to become blind to mistakes like a change in tenses, issues with my grammar, spelling and

I've loved writing since I was a young child, especially creative writing. It allows me to express myself, and it seems almost magical to be able to create things simply by writing down a few symbols and twenty-six letters in various ways. I've written many fictional stories of various genres over the years. Unfortunately, while I have done a lot of creative writing, I haven't done as much academic writing. I would like this class to help me become the kind of student who earns A's on her papers by assisting me in becoming more efficient in the overall writing process.

In following the five steps of effective business writing, proofreading is something that I really don’t do much of. I would say that the area I need work on is proofreading because I forget where commas need to be placed at times. My biggest flaw as a writer is dealing with procrastination. Procrastinating is something that I do in excess way too often just because I try to avoid having to write anything in general. Yet if I had to write a simple text message I have no problem in doing so. Impatience is another aspect that I deal with when I have to write let’s say a paper or a letter. My impatience kicks in when I’m writing because I don’t like to take my time in writing; I find writing to be a hassle at times and try to avoid it all together.

Owing to various reasons, I learnt a lot over break. Whether it was through writing these journals, or just through being home for a significant amount of time for the first time since I left for college, I gained a lot of insight about myself that I didn’t have before. I think the biggest realization I made is that I am the only one that can actually spark a change in me. I think most of the things I’ve written about have been in my head but I never took the time to go through them. I knew what I was doing wrong but never thought about how I could fix it and this break allowed me to go the extra step and think about that.

What I keep learning as I write and this paper enforced, is to continue with my writing. Not everyone writes a perfect paper overnight, it takes time and dedication. With time, I know I will develop a thoughtful reflection in my work with the help of my professors and my classmates. As a writer, an important quality that I have learned is to keep an open mind when someone revises my writing. I know if I keep second guessing my work it will limit any improvement I have achieved. My improvement on openness has changed my thoughts on my

I did not really learn anything new although I thought it was very informational for those who did not know about what a substantial source is and how to find out if it is a good one.

I feel like I have come along ways but I still need lots of improving to become a good writer. With the strengths above being said the struggle begins for me, by having to put the paper together as a whole. I believe I still need to improve by learning to put my research and thoughts into a paper. I still struggle actually writing a paper and using the correct words for what I am trying to say. I also need to improve on word choice and make sure I am using them in their correct meaning. Punctuation still gets me confused sometimes whether I should use it or not, so I do need to work on my punctuation for sure.

I unzipped my coat as I stepped into the warm basement. I crinkle my nose as the bitter smell of alcohol hits it. I feel like I should be used to it by now, I go to concerts at least once a month. We walk over to the small table overflowing with merchandise. It’s a tradition to by the opening bands CD.

Throughout my eighth grade year I’ve learned many skills that will benefit me in the future, specifically high school. All of my classes have contributed to teaching me these skills in order to have a prepared for high school. The skills I will be addressing are time management, organization, and the importance of research. When it came to assignments, using all of these skills were important if I wanted to have the best quality work and have it in on time. These are the skills that I’ve learned this year that will help me in high school.

I could still remember the day my 3rd grade teacher passed out a rubric paper and as i looked down at it, i felt like it all was in hebrew. All my teacher told me was “go home tonight and give this to your parents.” In bogota colombia they have never introduced science projeect so not only did i think it was in herew but my whole family thought to ourselves what is this thing. now and days you can google up a lot of information, but back then computers worked so limited, we had to go to the public library and ask and check out books to figure out what we were going to do. As a little girl i thought “ wow this is going to be so much fun and creative” as we started buildng up the board with abstracts, questions, hypothesis,background reseach,

The client was immobile and withdrawn during this session. She appears afraid to speak and held her child tightly in her arms. The client's eyes are swollen as she continues to cry. She is staring at the ground, as I approach to sit beside her on the bench. She held the baby even tighter as I begin to introduce myself. I continued to talk using a soft voice tone hoping this would make her feel more relaxed. Goals in this session were to make the client feel at eased and not to be tensed while trying to understand the reason for her tears. My asset in this session was being genuine and empathic.

.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

“I don’t want to change my schedule.” Those were the first words I said last enrolment