My main priority was to revise assignment three, the personal essay since it was more valuable than the other two major assignments I have written throughout the quarter. In this essay, I found a lot of defects that directed to the confusion to the reader to understand the truths of my life. In this essay, there were a lot of different techniques I learned such as changing a personal truth to a story in a piece of writing. Another technique, I learned was to make my essay better by including the
Writing a personal essay is, well… personal. The first of the major assignments for my English 121 class was a personal essay. Having been out of school for many years, this first attempt at college level writing has been somewhat intimidating. Verbally sharing my thoughts has never been a problem however, employing the written word has always been more challenging. Reflecting on the experience of revising the original personal essay reveals growth in a basics understanding of essay format, better
Personal Essay: Writing a personal essay is, well… personal. The first of the major assignments for my English 121 class was a personal essay. Having been out of school for many years, this first attempt at college level writing has been somewhat intimidating. Verbally sharing my thoughts has never been a problem however, employing the written word has always been more challenging. Reflecting on the experience of revising the rough draft of the personal essay reveals growth in a basics understanding
Writing is an amalgamation of different conventions stuck together in an organized manner in order to convey a point. All papers that are written must have clear theses, a clear, consistent organization, proper tone and style, as well as supporting details and evidence. In addition to overarching ideas like these, papers must include small scale conventions such as conciseness in sentences and ideas, strong topic sentences that relate to the thesis, coherence and readability, and proper wording.
Before this course, my writing exceeded above an average level, but now my writing has developed a sophisticated technique. This course pushed me to include higher comprehensive words into every piece I wrote. Continuously, I would be searching the internet for synonyms of verbs, adjectives, and nouns I wanted to include in my writings. This technique forced a maturity to emerge into my writing. As a writer, my options and understanding of diverse types of writing has improved immensely. This course
When Essay 1 was assigned, I immediately realized that I had a lot of freedom in what I could write. The whole portfolio system created an encouraging environment for exploring and trying out new things: for the first time, I wasn’t focused on grades. I think what changed my attitude about writing was both the fact that I had a lot of time to work on my essay and plenty of opportunities to fix it later on, so I wasn’t too concerned with mistakes. As Professor Vecera puts it: “it’s all a working process”
When it comes to writing it isn’t my favorite subject in school. It isn’t something that I am very passionate about or something I enjoy doing, but I do know that I am a good writer. I’d say I am above average but I’m not a first-class writer. However, just like anyone else in anything I have my strengths and my weaknesses. My two best strengths in writing are being able to stay on topic and including good references, like facts. My two main weaknesses are me not always being able to focus and I
Advice to First Writing Course at the University of Central Florida Writing courses can be challenging and that is why I decided to write this personal narrative. I believe that a personal narrative is better for an advice column than a research paper. A personal narrative would give more personal experience and insight on how the course was. It would be more valid since it is true. I think people learn better when they read and hear something from the person they are talking to rather than being
bombarded with questions about my skills and future plans. One of the skills most colleges look for is adroitness in writing and it can at times be a determining factor for admission. I believe I am a good writer but not exactly an exemplar one. I always try to showcase my best writing abilities whenever asked to compose an essay; however, I remain with the belief that I have as much strengths as weaknesses in writing and can improve further. There are specific environments where I write best and the
this is it, this will be the greatest essay I’ve ever typed, this will be the greatest statement ever written. My mind quickly changes when I realize that I have nothing to put down on paper. It took me 2 years to finally take the English courses I was required to take at the beginning of my college years. It frustrates me to look at a blank word document and the blinking arrow cursor, it literally drives me insane. When I took my first developmental writing course, in order to take English 1, it