Personal Writing : My Personal Experience In High School

Think about your experiences of writing at college. Which types of assignments have you found helpful in strengthening your writing skills? Where do you want to improve your writing? What’s the most useful advice you’re received that’s helped you improve your writing. Be as specific as possible.

After a grueling first quarter, I was completely miserable, with terrible grades, low self-esteem, and no end in sight. I was hanging on to the hope that there would be some epiphany moment, a moment where suddenly my writing soared, along with my grades. That change did happen, but not all at once‒ it began during the third quarter, when my teacher, Ms. Boynton, asked me to stay after class, along with five other students. She asked if we would each be interested in participating in The Atlantic and College Board Essay Contest, in which we would each submit an analysis of a famous American speech. I was truly stunned that she had chosen me over so many other students in the class, since I had felt so lost for so many weeks, but it was exactly what I needed as motivation to keep on improving my writing. As I worked closely with her on my contest submission and other class work, I came to realize how much she cared about me and wanted to help me succeed. With that being said, she never made it easy; she continually pushed me, knowing that I could always do better if I set my mind to it. Last September, I began her demanding course with the intention of purely surviving, not necessarily thriving, but that

Before my ENC1101 class I had no idea how to write college leveled essays. I felt like a lost puppy wondering in the woods. In the start of this class I felt stressed out because I wasn’t so sure if my writing was good enough. I spent days just trying to come up with the right ideas, but most of all I was afraid to fail the assignment. It felt like I was having writers block throughout all my essays. Even though there is a writing center in Valencia Community College and a SL tutor where I could’ve got help from I choose not to. I was afraid for someone to look at my essays and not like it or just tell me everything I did wrong. Which would have just brought me down. But in reality I have come to understand that feedback is a great way for improvement.

Also, I had no problems with essays during my grade school years. I did not need much time to create an essay, or a journal, or something else for my writing class. The older I become, the more difficult it gets for me to write. Perhaps, I have more problems, needs, or other various things in my life that keep me from being able to focus on writing. Therefore, when I read “The Watcher at the Gates” by Gail Godwin, I saw myself there. In this essay, Godwin illustrates examples of many things that may be obstacles to some people to start writing. Also, she suggests several ways that may help people to overcome such a problem.

I feel like my middle school writing career has improved with every writing project I have completed. As a writer I have changed over the years and have used many different tactiques in my essays. I have had strength in the ability to connect my idea with my evidence but I wish I could write a lot longer and more descriptive essays. I feel like my middle school writing careers has changed over the months.

A community college is a great stepping stone for students who are on a budget and plan to obtain a degree higher than an Associates. As my career choice, Nurse Practitioner, requires a Master’s degree I am looking at many more years of classes and a lot more financial burden than that of an a registered nurse at the Associate degree level. In this paper I will explain why I have decided to take this course now, what my expectations are of this course, what I hope to gain from the experience, what I would like to read and write about based on my career path, and what some possible issues associated with my chosen career path are.

Writing is an evolving skill that may be fine-tuned through years of improvement and learning. As a product of the evolving nature of my writing skills, a primary difference between my writing in high school and my writing in college would most certainly be the quality of the writing itself. Thus, my writing should also see an increase in focus, depth and clarity as compared to its high school form. A major component of high school writing, especially in my experience, was the issue of predetermined length in writing. Often, this mandate of length required excessive amounts of filler content that was entirely irrelevant to the general theme or purpose of the piece. In contrast, my writing in college applications should see an increased

How am I still doing this? That is what I ask myself when I walk through the horrid english door. Through my middle school “career”, if you could call it that, I found myself loving narrative writing and having the choice to invent a story, lose myself in what i’m am creating. That is what I consider my strength, narratives, but everything else other than that, the analysis or persuasive, papers I did not excel in. sure I never got bad grades on them, but I do need to grow in those areas. So in this paper I will show you how I have benefitted through out my middle school writing career.

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.

English has never been my strong suit. During high school I took many advanced placement classes in all subjects except English. I have always been fascinated by the sciences and those were the classes I really excelled in. I thrived on my ability in those classes and honestly tried to avoid English because I was only average. Now, looking back at my high school writing experience, there was not a whole lot of writing which would make up for that explanation. I took many film as literature classes, reading classes, or a mixture of both reading and writing but never just writing. I think that will have a lot to say about my writing this quarter.

During my college career, the hardest thing for for me to do was just start something. A paper, or a report. Really anything that inclosed writing. Don't get me wrong, I would have all the research done and the paper outlined weeks before. But that step of actually writing someone in a word document, That's what I just couldn't bring myself to do.

Looking back on it, there could not have been a better way to start the greater part of my high school career than Composition I. The writing skills I learned throughout this course will help me later in my writing career. Compositions I made me a successful writer and helped me grow. Each essay in Composition I was different, and thus brought on different challenges. Through it all, it was worth, and I would not be where I am right now if it was not for Composition I.

I attended Grand Blanc Academy in Grand Blanc, Michigan. I was sitting in a hard yellow chair with my name tag at the top of the table. My Pre-School teacher Mrs. Stringer would hand out writing paper to practice our writing. The paper contained a row with the letters provided for us to copy on the row below. After all the letters in the alphabet were completed, we would move onto do the same thing with numbers 0-10. After we completed our writing practice for the day, Mrs. Stringer would have us repeat the letters and numbers after her. Once we were completely finished with the lesson for the day she would hand out mini colorful mints. This was my first experience I remember learning how to write and the very beginning of learning how to read the letters and numbers.

As author Joshua J. Marine said, “ Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful,” applied now, I have to ask myself if I’m prepared to overcome the transition from high-school to college writing. Yes, that transition was tough, but the experience it keeps giving me is, so far, totally worth it. In this college class I have had to grow accustomed to writing about new topics in new styles and explore the different ways I can present my ideas and incorporate them into the papers I write. My vocabulary has grown, in two ways, which some I learned being that to keep up a level of interest in my reader - I mean, who wants to read the same words over and over again? and to again express my ideas in the

As I was walking to my 5th period class, which is AP Language and Composition, I noticed a sign on the door. I could not see it from down the hall but as I got closer I read “Essay today” I immediately felt the butterflies in my stomach and my palms starting to sweat. As I walked closer to the class I saw my other classmates, some of them looked as terrified as me, some rolled their eyes and sighed, and the others just shrugged their shoulders like they did not care. I tried to calm my nerves but nothing was working. When I finally go to the door, I took a deep breath and stepped into the class.