Reflection On Improving My Writing

A good writer is someone who knows how to write well, have ideas to put on paper and write a well-organized essay that answers the question that a professor gives to you. I identify my own writing by not being good because I have issues sometimes getting words on paper, organizing the essay and my grammar is not very well. The methods that are effective for improving my own writing is practice writing and have someone proof read my work. I am in COM100L because my grammar is not good and my writing on paper is all over the place. My expectation for this course is to improve my grammar when I write essays and fix my mistakes when I write.

Throughout my semester in English 131, I have gained many improvements to both my writing skills and my writing process. One such improvement was making me think critically on my essays in both this class and another class where we had to write essays. On all of my later self-reviews, I constantly gave way below what I was eventually given, and that helped me so much, by changing my essays so much more than what I would have done originally. That is evident by how my grade has steadily gone up on each of my papers. The memoir that I first wrote was my first ever graded that was really beneficial to my grade, and I got a 44 out of 50. The next paper that I wrote was a profile, and I got the same grade on that as my memoir. The first improvement that I had was on the review essay, and that was only by one point above the other papers that I wrote. Lastly, the best improvement that I have had was with my final paper, a proposal essay. On that essay, I got a 49 out of 50, a major improvement to my other pieces of writing.

I have made progress already in week four of class by understanding how to build a strong thesis statement, and I will continue to check messages, comments, textbook and outside

I was very astonished, when I went to the office hour the first time and asked my professor to give me some advice about my essay. At that time, I had no idea how to specify my topic and analyze my thesis, but my professor gave me lots of specific and arguable ideas that I had never thought of. Then, I started to realize that the ability I am supposed to learn from Writing 39B class is the way to do rhetorical analysis. During these ten weeks classes of Writing 39B, I make improvements on skills of doing rhetorical analysis as well as conveying my message to the reader effectively. To be more specific, I have learned how to analyze an essay from the

Throughout the year, my scores in writing have gone up and down but has shown a general increase. My current writing average is higher than my writing average at the beginning of the year which shows my improvement. My biggest problems in my writing have been MLA formatting, grammar mistakes, and commentary. At first, I made MLA formatting mistakes constantly with my margins, contractions, spacing, and headers. My first few writing assignments were filled with MLA formatting errors but over time, as I lost points from MLA formatting errors, I learned to avoid them. Now, I do not get marked off for MLA formatting at all. My grammar mistakes have always existed in my writing assignments but I’ve seen a slight, steady decrease in the number of

From the first assignment to the last, I realized that my writing process has changed a lot. I usually write my papers in my room, whether on a desk or on my bed. I did not organize my thoughts as eloquently as I should have. My ideas were more sporadic, and I did not give myself as much time to write it out. In addition, I was more worried about the page limit rather than the content of my work. Similar to the other assignments, I did not start my process with an outline. I went straight towards writing my paper without giving any structure, which did not help with the organization of my papers in this class.

Can you feel it? I feel it too. The feeling of procrastination, anger, and pain of Mr. Hanlin assigning a new project that most of us feel we can put off, even though it is due in 2 weeks. I feel bad for the poor souls who lose class-time to work on the demon project, a moment of silence for the unfortunate. The idea for today's class was to learn how to write like a high-schooler. This meant Thesis Statements, Formal Language, and Introduction Methods. A Thesis Statement is very useful, even though it is an opinion. It may be debated and provides a layout for your paper. It is not an announcement, and helps the reader understand and navigate through the text. It is a work in progress, but it is whole.

Throughout the timespan of a semester could you improve your writing to where there would be noticeable differences? When writing for English 1010, I noticed that there was obvious weaknesses and minimal strengths or lack thereof in my writing abilities. In many ways I do believe that I was able to improve in areas pertaining to reading, thinking, researching, and writing.

All my life I have struggled with English due to the fact that I did not learn English till the age of seven, as it was not the first language. Programs like ESL have helped me improve my English tremendously through high school. Over these past two quarters in college, I learned to improve my writing more than ever, as I have learned that there is no limit in writing. I was able to learn many new strategies that will help me write my future papers efficiently. I have also learned my strengths and weakness. Throughout high school, I dreaded writing essays, due to the fact that I was not good at it, but this quarter I have learned the importance of writing. Writing 20 has changed my opinion on that.

As a student in High School, my writing composition was not very well developed. Although, I got help from my teachers, in addition to that, on my free time I went to the library to make extra corrections that were needed. My dad also helped me all throughout high school by reading over my essays and making comments on what I need to improve on, but even then I believe that my writing could have improved. I have tried to find strategic ways to improve my writing and I believe that I may slowly be getting there.

I learned how to write an essay. I took that information you gave to me and I ran with it, and I can now write a powerful essay. From the first draft to the final one, and every mile between, I have retained all the information and can now show you. We discussed the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the sentence that states the main idea of your whole writing assignment, and how if you have an inadequate thesis statement, the whole backbone of the paper is lost.

Throughout this semester I have learned the importance of writing comprehensibly and efficiently when writing an essay. This is essential to provide not only the audience with an easy understanding of what will be discussed in the paper, but also gives the writer an outline of his or her body paragraphs. As a result, I have revised my research essay to exhibit how much I

I felt some sentences could have been written better, in some parts in the essay I couldn’t quite pronounce some words, I knew what you were trying to say but, I struggled a bit to read it out. For some reason you didn’t double space your name, professors name, class name, and date, remember to check that out for your final essay. There was too much “college level writing” in the essay even though the professor stated that she will deduct points for the amount of times she reads “college level writing” trying using a different way of saying college level writing. The thesis felt like it could have been told a little bit better to represent the essay. It sounds like talks about its own thing instead of the essay itself.

My writing skills which I have worked on over the few months I have been in English 102 have changed quite a bit in my opinion. There are many things which I have improved upon that were amongst my weaker writing skills when the year began. On the opposite side of that point, there are also many things which I still need to improve upon if I want to truly elevate my writing to a level that I will be confident in. Finally, I have gained new skills outside of writing from this class, particularly the activities which we did in class at various points throughout the year. These things all cumulate together to give me an appreciation of English courses which I did not previously have.

I decided to pick the first paper of the semester which was the Literacy Narrative. In this paper I learned how develop my thesis. I used the xyz form that I was taught this year to make my thesis more clear and able to understand. This was a major problem I faced coming into this year. I’ve gradually become better in this area taking