Reflection On My Writing

My personal narrative has to do with my journey alongside my family in an event that we all faced. When I was in fourth grade my father got cancer. I am not over protective of the fact that he did, in fact I am quite open on the subject. If they haven’t forgotten, then my friends know, and classmates at the time did know. In this way it is very personal, but also a shared story. As I stated earlier, my father got cancer when I was in fourth grade. This can certainly be considered an unusual childhood. I do not think that many children have had their parents go through cancer when they were around this age. My family spent lots of time in this situation. We were open with this fact, and people had helped us. My fourth grade class

Throughout high school, I was regularly told that writing was not my strongest skill. My teachers would constantly “shoot down” my writing because it was never “good enough,” except I never understood what that truly meant. However, this class helped me realize that my writing has “potential for greatness,” but it just requires some more time, thought, and clarification.

When reflecting on my experience writing, editing, and completing the culminating journal assignment, I found that it was fairly easy considering how this was an emotional, opinion based paper. This paper probably took me about three hours to complete because I had to thoroughly reminisce on what I had learned this semester. However, after taking a look over my journals, I found substantial growth in myself since the beginning of the school year. A specific challenge that I overcame when writing this paper was procrastination because I finished it as soon as I got it assigned. Additionally, I feel this paper highlights my intriguing flow and unique style of portraying ideas. Accordingly, I am most proud of how I elaborated on specific journals and thoughts throughout this paper. Overall, I hope to grow as a writer in the future by attending meetings at the writing center and asking teachers and peers for advice. In the end,

Over the course of the semester we have written multiple papers with an assortment of topics. Writing the various papers has expanded my writing skills because each paper required different skills to satisfy the requirements of the paper. Through the various strategies we have learned in class I have improved my writing tremendously through using clear and precise language, considering feedback, and incorporating and explaining evidence.

After reading over my summer assignment essay and analyzing the comments and feedback of my writing I feel that I have a lot of work to do to improve my writing as a whole. I feel I had the ideas down on what I wanted to say on my summer essay. It was just difficult expressing them in a way that was compelling enough to the reader. The topics for the essay were not challenging to me because I felt that I wrote a lot about the one I chose on alienation. Throughout my reflection I will discussed the weaknesses and strengths in my writing as well as talk about ways I feel I could improve my writing.

In the beginning of this semester I didn't like writing at all. I had a lot of difficulty when it came to writing. That was my only weakness in high school. But as I started taking basic writing, I have made a lot of progress. Before I had trouble to put detail in my essays, but now I am confident. My attitude toward writing went from negative to positive during this semester. Some aspects of the class have helped me strengthen my writing, I have builded some strengths for myself as a writer, and I know I made a lot of progress by reading my most successful essay, and by comparing my early essays to my more recent ones.

I've never had to write a personal narrative before. Nor do I like to. Personally, I've always just tried to forget a lot that goes on around me. I hate diary entries and journaling. The closest I've come to any of it is writing poems. They were never any good though. Mostly talking about teenage angst or what I think the color green would taste like. But some of them were like stories. Stories about my friends, and about dreams.

Reading page after page so far this semester there has been a few things that has really opened up my eyes. The first would be to be really detailed about my writing and not just throwing it together; before I wouldn’t think about what I was going to write and I would just start typing, whatever I came up with I turned it in. I never once revised a paper or reread my papers because truthfully I didn’t really care I just wanted to be done with the assignment. Another thing that stood out a lot to me was the free write strategy. It is my personal favorite now, it really helps you get all your thoughts out but not worry about the really important things. After I get all my thoughts out I can just go back to add more to details to the paper.

Our next stop is the peaceful and picturesque lake, EWP Outcome #2! The second outcome aims to showcase my ability "to read, analyze, and synthesize complex texts and incorporate multiple kinds of evidence purposefully in order to generate and support writing." I believe that my first and second major paper are able to demonstrate my ability integrate readings and resources, and to use to use as sources and evidence for my writing.

Throughout my four years of high school i've come to realize how much I love to write, especially creative writing. When I think about creative writing, I think about politics. Creative writing being liberal, while expository writing being more on the conservative side .What made creative writing so intriguing to me was, the ability to express my opinions on a certain topic ,and not having to worry if my option were wrong to others. All that mattered was if I believed in it . With creative writing I am willing to go deeper into a topic and explain what I think about that certain topic. Because of creative writing I found out many fascinating things I never knew about myself. I discovered that I’m a very opinative person who knows what

What I am going to talk about is what one of my main personal narratives are. I feel that one of my main personal narratives would be adaptability. I feel that I am very adaptable as for everything I’ve been through. Throughout my life I have had to adapt to a lot of things.

What aspects of your writing give you the most confidence? What needs additional work, and what can you do to improve?

Kelly, I enjoyed reading your discussion post. Personal narratives were my easiest concept to explain also. Because it is something that in my opinion does not require much work because it is something that I already know. I am working on going into details a lot more than before to make sure my readers clearly understand what the point of my story was. I think you have a real gift of writing. I wish you will in all of your future

The fourth paper attempted to explain autobiographically my concept of the ideal life. I was very unsatisfied with the outcome of the first draft, because it suffered from one of the main difficulties I have while writing: I tend to write just enough and in such a way that I might understand it while reading it, but not enough to explain or give support to the reader. I believe this stems from my disdain for writing that bludgeons the reader with a single monotonous point, instead of using cleverness and ingenuity to present material that supports the thesis while still allowing the reader to make the connections himself. After determining where I would like to lead the reader and spending hours thinking about a problem and a certain solution I become bored with the argument and

I believe writing the personal narrative was the most challenging for me to start. First off trying to pick an event that might somewhat be entertaining without it being too personal was difficult. Second, I hadn’t written a paper in seven years my brain hadn’t been in student mode in quite a while. Sample essays were particularly helpful in getting me started. I adored the story you told about running over the lilac bush, I’m not sure why, but this is the one that stuck with me the most. Peer reviews and teacher conference where also very helpful to me it was nice to have an opportunity to get feedback before handing in an essay.