Reflective Essay: How To Improve My Writing Style

For the past fifteen years I have learned how to spell, write sentences, use correct grammar and punctuation and the list continues. Over the last ten years is when writing has really come into play. I've been assigned numerous assignments that have required writing which has taught me my specific writing style. A few things that I like about my writing style consist of the following: I consider myself a creative writer, I have a fairly good vocabulary and excellent grammar. A few things that need improvement in my writing are the use of commas, run on sentences and the formatting of my papers. Although those specific writing characteristics may be basic they are the three that are most challenging for me.

Police officers are held at a higher form of ethical behavior and when they violate the trust bestowed upon them with the position they held, they entire department is viewed as a r corrupt agencies and all they service within that agency are bad people. Their professional responsibilities are driven by codes of ethics to assist them in executing their duties and to safeguard these higher standards of conduct. Everyday law enforcement officials are confronted with a maze of commitments in the implementation of their official duties. (Papenfuhs 2011) Even though law enforcement officials have these standards, they are still challenged with moral dilemmas. This mean the

When writing a paper, I usually just put a comma where it sounds the best. Although I did learn some of the comma rules during the class, I still need to work on my comma usage. Sentence structure is another concept I can improve when writing. In most of my papers I have at least one fragment. It is hard for me to tell when a sentence should end. Being able to identify sentence type is another area I can refine to communicate my ideas better. I am able to identify what a simple sentence is, but the compound complex is where I get confused. I also need to grow on my vocabulary, instead of using vague words all of the time. Most of my mistakes in my paper can be helped from when doing the color coding and clocking

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.

1. What do you think that essay was lacking most? By rereading the essay, I was able to identify that it was lacking a sense of direction. Going through the paragraphs, it looks like I am stitching together evidence from the book, that doesn’t really go that well. Also, not only did I stick together evidence, I reused the evidence on multiple occasions in different paragraphs, causing a sense of redundancy. What really surprises me is that I did extensive planning before I sat down to right this essay, and that just goes to show that it wasn’t enough. Knowing the basic principals of literature, and an understanding of what you are writing is key to maintaining a great essay. After all, if you don’t thoroughly understand what you are writing,

When I looked back in my paragraph, I decided to elaborate more on how the place impacted me. Also I elaborated more on the place, like how it feels, smells and looks. In my first paragraph I wrote about what I saw when I was walking to school. When I went to my comp fellow we discussed how I can improve my writing, which was by putting more detailed information.

Throughout this semester, I feel that I have learned a lot about the subject and about my own writing skills as well. I feel that during in class discussions I am polite and cooperate by giving my input on discussion topics with my classmates. There may have been a few times where I have spoken out of turn, but I am sure it was not on purpose, but out of eagerness to speak out about the topic. Although sometimes my opinions about the discussions were not voiced, they were thought about carefully in my head and outside of class. The reason is I am an introvert person so I am kind of listener more. Occasionally, I am not comfortable and feel anxious when I have to speak up in front of a large group of people. Moreover, I am not a quick responder;

In this course I learned how to be a brave when I assessed my fellow, to cite sources, and how to analyze an abstract. The important thing I learned it was how I search in the UOPeople library to get strong sources. I would change my grammar mistakes, especially comma mistakes and my style in writing because I recently discovered that it's a little confusing. I really liked that I learned to write a five paragraph essay with supporting citation because it's important for academic study, and I didn't know anything about that. I will apply this in my life when I will study in the university to write a clear thesis and 5 paragraph essay when it is needed. Also, I will do my best to keep away from any grammar mistakes. I will apply this for my

I tend to devote the most time to this step. Especially for grad program with extensive research, lots of research. Searching for resources and reading the references. Then, putting thoughts together and organizing them in the outline. Making introduction, stating the thesis, supporting text body and concluding the paper. Paying attention to detail and patience in this step does make it easier for me further in the process.

Writing was one of my worst fears when returning back to school after thirty years. I never saw myself as a strong writer by any means. I struggled through taking English Composition I and felt inadequate after completing it. I never thought about the process that it took to write a strong paper before taking this course. I have learned a great deal this semester, which will help me in my future classes.

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

The course English 2 provided informational work that can help further my writing skills in other courses. I have always had a hard time with grammar when it comes to typing papers or in general speaking. I really did not understand what a thesis statement was before this class, while I still struggle with thesis today; I have an understanding of what a thesis should be. It should be a statement and not a question, which I originally thought was the thesis. One of my favorite parts of the course was learning the definitions of ethos, pathos and logos. The terms really add a lot to describing events in the world or adjectives in an essay. One of my favorite parts of the course was working on the bibliography, which I had never done in any course.

This fall semester in ESL 91has been pretty interesting, and so far successful. The main object of this semester was to improve our essay writing. We were taught various lab techniques that helped us to improve our English writing skills, such as using appropriate verb tense and how to write a research paper with a works cited. Through my work on the research paper I have learned how to write in an academic style, how to find appropriate sources from an academic database, and how to cite my sources. Most of all, I can say that my reading skills have improved because the research for our papers required me to do a lot of critical reading.

Policing appears to be a profession that has a problem with corruption. The reasoning of this form of corruption is based on these factors, status problems, managerial visibility being low, and affiliation with lawbreakers. This may have been a problem ever since policing started, but it’s an issue that is gaining more attention and recognition now. Police misconduct has been a major factor in the development of the United States and worldwide. This is why past scandals of police corruption that has been unsolved lead us to our current challenges we have with the police system today. The question that lays down on society today is, how can we fix this issue of police corruption, and what started it in the first place?

As a student, I know that English is not my best subject in school, however, it isn’t my worst topic either. The challenges that I have in writing papers concerns my ability to provide enough information to help my readers to understand my point or someone else’s point. However, in most cases of overcoming these challenges, I seek help from my peers and professors in providing me advice on how I can do better. As I was assigned more and more papers to write, I believe that my writing skills have become more developed than what it was before.