Proofreading Reflection

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

The art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

In the beginning of the term I was assigned an essay that described me as a writer and thinker. With this essay being my first assignment, I was quite stressed with the feeling of failure. After this assignment I learned the importance of the drafting system. After my paper was graded I received it back and noticed multiple mistakes. This was the first step I practiced improving. Writing multiple drafts helped me analysis the material I wrote from another point of view. For example, I was able to eliminate sections that were unrelated from the main point. Building my vocabulary up another step I had focus as a writer and thinker. I used a combination between the dictionary and thesaurus to help me increase my vocabulary. Overtime with experience, I saw improvements in all of these categories that I was struggling

During this semester in English 107, I have progressed more as a writer. Before I went to University of Arizona, my writing was rigid. I wrote five-paragraph TOEFL style essay all the time in my high school life. After I attended in English 107, I was not confident about my writing skill. Throughout these three projects we have done, I become more and more confident about my writing skill than before. The Student Learning Outcomes also helped me to grow as a writer a lot. In these goals, I did well on several of them, but I still need to work on the other goals.

Over the course of this semester, I have learned many things to improve my writing. Having taken the course before, this semester has been an excellent opportunity to expand on my existing knowledge. Although I had written many essays before, there is still much to be learned and improved. Two factors of writing that I had learned or improved on this semester were transitions/topic sentences and how to properly structure a conclusion paragraph.

Throughout the seven weeks that I have taken this writing composition course, I have developed skills to help me improve my own writing. Using the writing process is one of the main focuses in the course. The writing process helps writers develop and revise their essay as they work their way up to creating the final draft that can be presented. Although there are many areas in my own writing where I can get better, I have found that my writing has improved in many ways while practicing using the writing process.

Initially my writing lacked structure and a controlling purpose which caused my ideas to be incoherent and hard for the reader to understand. These difficulties could be attributed to the fact that I am an art student plagued with the disorganization and non-verbal method of an artist’s brain. Being this way, interpreting and conveying my thoughts accurately and eloquently into the assigned writings was fairly tough. However, during the course of English 101 I was able to identify my weaknesses through the aid of writing communities such as peer review sessions and conferences with my professor. With the help from these resources and the writing process I learned to better organize my essays and maintain a controlling purpose in order to help my audience

The process I used when writing previously changed during the first few weeks of this class. Already I have altered the way I write my drafts, and the way I read other people’s work. Lamott’s “Shitty First Draft” made me come to the realization that one draft isn’t always the best approach. Therefore, I took multiple steps in examining my draft and critiquing it accordingly. Additionally, I started brainstorming topics, and this led me to create a roadmap for the list of destinations and topics I wanted to touch on and the message I wanted the reader to take away. This is just the beginning of the year and I already have a sense that as I progress through the semester my work will be continually get better.

Afterwards, all the hard work you have put in, you can see the result. You have grown as a reader, writer, student of grammar, and peer reviewer. I have noticed that when I read the stories at first I would not pay attention to the way the writer wrote. Later on, after I had finished the story I would go back and see how the writer formed his or her essay, maybe even get some ideas for my future essay. Growing as a writer takes time. When I received my first graded essay I almost had a heart attack, I think that there was more red ink on my paper than black. Of course, later on I understood that it is for my own good, and now when I write my essays I look back to the graded essay and fix my mistakes.

This course as you stated has been very complicated to me as well at times. However, the course has offered many valuable tools for us to utilize in preparing for our research-based paper. Proofreading your paper is important to ensure all errors are corrected before submitting your paper in for grading. I would like to congratulate you on your renewed inspiration of journal writing again.

Proofreading is the practice of reviewing the final draft of a particular document to ensure that all material is correct and all errors are eliminated to your knowledge. You should always proofread your paper. You have to ensure that what you want to convey to your audience is what actually what is shown on the paper. You can’t just trust your computer to catch all of your mistakes. That’s why it is important to follow this steps my help to make the proofreading process easier.

Every writer experiences the daunting task of writing, revising, perfecting, and completing a paper, essay, or book at some point in life. Whether it is for school or a profession, writing and revising papers will always be a part of life. While writing and revising multiple papers for Written Communications, I learned a lot about my writing style, technique, and revision process. Through complicated steps, I performed both global and local revisions in order to increase the clarity of paper, erase all sentence-level confusions, perfect my ideas, and organize my thoughts into a coherent, unified argument.

While writing this three essays I analyzed and I tried to critically think about what I was writing. I always asked myself if my opinions and convictions were affecting the information I was transmitting to my readers. To write the first essay I tried to find the articles with the most current information but that they would differ between them in order for me to recognize which was the strongest and more persuasive article. Also, the first draft of my essay number one wasn't specific enough and it need it some clarification in the transitions from one idea to the other. Also, my first draft had several grammar mistakes and need it to be more coherent. Then, in the second draft I tried to fix the grammar mistakes and I used better transition words such as, furthermore and additionally, so the reader could better understand what I was trying to expressed. Next, my last draft for essay one was a lot clearer and more specific and concise then the first one. The first draft of my second essay was better than that of my first essay but it still grammar mistakes were plentiful; so I tried fixing those on my second draft as well as I improved some sentences so they could be more coherent and clearer. The first draft of my third essay had several grammar mistakes which I tried to fix in the second draft as well as improve some of the sentences so they could be more concise and easier to understand. Overall, my

The first paper that I wrote for this class showed where I was at in my writing abilities leaving high school and entering college. I feel as though my first paper could have been improved in how I constructed my sentences and used specific words. I knew my first paper needed revision because I have grown stylistically as a writer and have found my own voice, since the first paper was turned in. Due to me growing stylistically, I decided to go back and read over the comments made by Professor Olsen and also revise areas that I thought were geared more towards high school writing. Within my first paragraph, I included a transition from the introductory and background information to the thesis of the paper. I felt this was necessary because a skill that I lacked before completing this course was how to intertwine one topic with another, making the paragraphs flow together. Now that the introduction flows together, readers are able to understand how one topic relates to the other, making it a stronger paragraph. I also focused on my conclusion, specifically my concluding sentence. One of the main comments that Professor Olsen made was the original concluding sentence was too much of a cliffhanger that might have led the audience in a different direction than what I was intending. To solve this issue, I revised the last sentence to be more concrete and definite. I provided the reader with factual evidence, while also including the findings of the study. While not leaving the