Reflective Essay: Developing My Writing Flow

Everybody has their own methods for writing; however, I believe there is always room for improvement. Chapter 3 in Everyone’s an Author has shown me that writing involves processes that need to be mastered through constant practice. It also revealed helpful tips on how to develop writing processes that can help write effective papers.

Essay have never been my strong suite. This semester however, my writing ability has improved. My progress is evident when I look over my assignment five essay and see the mistakes highlighted. These mistakes are what I now look for while editing my work. I am still improving with every piece of writing I create, but I revise differently by looking specifically for my weaknesses. I have been successful in my attempts because I do not make the same mistakes as I used to. I now use more resources than I previously did to embellish my writing process. The combination of these changes has greatly improved my final pieces of writing.

Diving into this essay, I was nervous because I have not written anything in about a year! I was concerned about how I would construct my essay because I never wrote a memoir before and I was not sure what to write about. Based on the reading from chapter five of Writing Today, I constructed my memoir around an implied thesis. I think that I am still able to write decently well and that people who read my writing can still understand it. I am grateful that my writing skills have not reverted back to an elementary school level. I think it was a bit risky for me to write about a person and a series of moments in my life to describe how my writing came to be, instead of just how one person influenced me or about just one event. I am also a bit

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 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 strategies that helped me improve my essays. Over the course of this quarter 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. This quarter I have learned the importance of writing. Throughout high school, I dreaded writing essays, due to the fact that I was not good at it. However, this quarter, writing 20 has changed my opinion on that.

Over the course of my studies at university, I have grown and learned more about academic writing and numerous writing styles. I believe there is so much room for me to master my writing skills to succeed and complete my degree and improve my academic writing and personal skills through more practice. However, I have become concerned with my first attempt submitting my piece of paper through the online test in the Writers’ Diet diagnostic tool and was labelled ‘flabby’ in my writing. Analysing my errors and referring to the textbook ’Communication Toolkit’ by Grellier and Goerke (2014), also submitting my piece of writing to Grammarly and paper rater I was able to measure my weakness in the area of sentence structure, punctuation and grammar.

This year, we have written several essays; all of which I have learned something new to help improve my writing. Looking back at my writing from the start of the year to now, I have encountered substantial improvements in my ability to form an effective introductory paragraph, my ability to use different types of phrases and my development of examples. “My Summer Reading Essay,” written earlier in the year, demonstrates my lack of knowledge on writing an introductory paragraph, using topic sentences and developing examples. However, since the beginning of the year, I have begun to see improvements in essays like “Major Works I” and the “Joe and Claire Narrative” that include more effective introductory paragraphs, the use of different types

When I confidently swaggered into this room on the first day, I was certain that I couldn’t improve any more than where I was at that time. On September 3, 2015, I thought that any piece I wrote would be deserving of a four. I was clearly mistaken. Reviewing the pieces written from September to now, it is difficult for me to process the fact that I was the one who wrote these seemingly mediocre stories and essays, and yet I thought they were excellent. The growth of my writing, along with all my language arts skills, has grown exponentially from September to now. This paper should be rewarded a four because my writing style has been enhanced, along with the vast improvement of my reading, speaking, and technological abilities, from all the

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Well, I have never thought about my writing process before, but I will try to describe it as much as I can. The first stage, which is the most important thing in my writing process is that to know the purpose of the topic that I am going to write about and I have to make sure that believing in the work that I am going to work on. Following those steps the next stage is going to be to just simply start typing without worrying about nothing, it might sound crazy because logically you cannot build a house without having materials that are needed obviously, but for me as a foreigner and having difficulties in writing the best way to have my ideals and thoughts flow is that to just sit down and type without hesitation. The next stage

One individual can change the world with a well-written essay. Essays are the combination of 26 letters to make words that form sentences and then paragraphs in a structured form depending on the style of writing. I have been fascinated with writing since elementary school. Writing has been my outlet for many years and something I have enjoyed. As time progressed, lost the time to sit down and write, but during the course of ENGL 1101, I have had the time for my favorite hobby in the present. I have learned many new techniques to better my writing and became a more successful student in the course of ten weeks.

I believe that my writing has improve a lot, because I have learned a lot of different words unknowns by me. I have also learn new prewriting techniques which have been essential in the process of creating new and fresh ideas. In this class we developed an activity which really help me with my writing skills and my vocabulary, and it was peer review. I always have agreed with the way the peer reviewers have criticized my work, because most of the time they see something that we have miss. Most of the time, a fresh look is welcome, I always say. I have learn from my paragraphs that if I put my mind on it, I can improve my writings increasingly. We all know that improve writing is a process, but If we write carefully, and we proofread several

Before I came to college, I felt my writing had to follow a certain pattern and be fixated around one way of thinking. What I was fortunate to learn was quite the opposite. Writing does not have to follow any certain pattern, but can rather be structured through many different possibilities. I was also told in high school that my papers either had to agree or disagree with the given topic, even if I believed otherwise. This formulated a very one-track way of thinking when it came to my papers. Now I know that I can let my mind explore new and exciting ideas. I can agree, disagree, compliment, criticize, and question the author however my heart desires, as long as I have the evidence to back myself up. Many authors in the book, Writing About Writing, explain their processes as well as the processes of others when it comes to writing. As a writer, I can draw on my own processes and relate them to the authors, as well as use their ideas and apply them to myself. Through reading, I have learned new methods of invention, planning and revising, and incubation when it comes to writing. All ways I can use to create more meaningful and creative work.

I think writing difficult for me because I don't read book , magazine , or article. Also, my grammar is worse.

After reading the articles written by professional writers, I found that I will have to reevaluate the way I do my writing. Before this point, I found myself in the role a normal student that believed that after the first draft was done, the writing was done. I always thought of rewriting and revising as an afterthought. Many times after I finished my first draft I would assume the work was done and I just need to correct for spelling and grammar. I believe many times I was just being too easy on myself. As Mr. Murray said, I now know that I must learn to be my own “best enemy”. Through learning the amount of work in this course, I am realizing that I must start my writing process earlier in order to give myself more to rewrite and revise.

For this essay, I used the traditional writing process as best I could. I use this process for almost all my essays, because it is the best way I know to write an essay effectively. First I had to decide what topic I wanted to write about since there wasn't a specific one given. After I found the topic I wanted to write about, I began with my pre-writing and the brainstorming process. I gathered all the information I could on the topic of religion causing war. I found some pretty good information on both topics but I was pretty sure which side I was leaning to, even before I started my research. After I gathered all of my information, I began focusing on which information I thought was best supportable by my own knowledge and which points had