Reflective Essay: My Improvement In My Writing

The writing process has always been a challenge for me. Especially if it has a due date. In the past, I have always procrastinated the process and that never ended well. I knew something had to be done and I needed to come up with ways to make writing a little easier. So, I sat down and I started to look at writing in smaller steps. I started to plan how I was going to finish a paper without getting so anxious and overwhelmed. This process has helped me a lot along the way and I am going to share my process with you.

Over the course of this semester, I have improved as a writer. At the beginning, I would like to think I was fairly decent, but I didn’t have much experience in anything but English and the occasional history papers. This year was difficult, as it forced me to learn new ways of writing. As I got more comfortable, I clearly improved, with my writing and content improving. Essays like the Prairie Meadows scholarship and annotated bibliography were remarkably different than what I was used to, and I benefited from writing them. The beginning of this year, I wasn’t incredibly concerned with my sentence structure or the impact of the words I used. As I learned and wrote more, my sentences got more complex and I -for the most part- stopped using

My writing essays represent a timeline of improvement , from my first essay to my last essay I’ve noticed my growth as a writer. It was not until later on the semester that I realized that I lacked substantial academic vocabulary and had ongoing run on sentences, grammatical errors. My word choice was really repetitive with the constant use certain words. I have progressed where I have expanded my ability to use clear description and make my technical information clear. For example when writing essay 2 and 3 having to insert figures helped me portray my argument much more clearly. When addressing the figures in my writing they had become much more clear. Considering our class revolved around technological developments of the future it was very

Starting a piece of writing has always been tough for me. There are times when I have spent an hour trying to figure out how I should start my writing. Now that's partly because of procrastination but main due to the fact that the intro to any piece is writing, in my opinion, is the most important aspect of any form of writing.

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This past semester in English 205, I learned quite a few ways to improve my writing, such as how to write in certain styles (i.e. APA), along with even memorizing the proper ways to cite different sources for the reference page of my essays. Prior to taking this class, I had great difficultly formatting my essays for other classes in APA, mainly because the only format I learned was MLA in high school, yet all my professors last semester and this semester required their essays to be in APA. Thus, I am glad that I mastered the writing conventions of APA because I will no longer struggle with writing essays for my any classes with the fear that I will get points deducted from my total grade due to formatting. Another technique I am pleased to

Through this academic writing course, I have changed in a small way as a writer. It did not transform my style, but rather give me more resources and ideas to improve certain kinds of writing that I will encounter in my college years. For example, I increased my knowledge of thesis statements. I already had a pretty good grasp, but the machine-like mechanism we were presented in class helped me to better organize my ideas. Even as we progressed throughout the course, we were learning new things about how to improve our technical writing. This allows us to make changes now on our former writing projects, as our views have matured.

When I was younger creative writing was my strongest link, but as the assignments and requirements grew harder I lost my touch and began to struggle. After taking both English courses I can definitely say that it has helped me grow as a writer and as person. Before entering English courses I knew very little about writing. In my high school classes, I was taught how to write but was never taught how to do correct formatting, citing, and did not know the importance of writing in general. Thankfully, after getting my feet wet, I learned as much as I possibly could so that I could be knowledgeable for future assignments, and now I understand how important everything having to do with writing is. My two college English courses have taught me more than I learned throughout my four years in high school.

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

I can recall my first writing assignment after being out of school for a significant amount of time, feeling nervous, and excited at the same time. I had no clue on how to begin the process of writing, or even how to construct my sentences correctly to target the audience that I was trying to reach. However, I feel that I have made a significant improvement in my writing skills. The reading the literature in all three unit lessons is such a tremendous help. Also, I like the fact that I can print the information and refer to it at a later date, should I need it in the near future.

During this class, the challenge of writing and reading many essays have definitely improve my writing. There are so many details that need to be considered when crafting a paper. The grammar, neatness, relevance of the content, and the paper formatting are key aspects of the quality of writing. In the essay it was fairly simple to describe my surroundings, the sound, smell and general structure. When I started thinking of all the things I remembered from my experience in the ocean, I was able to make a gigantic list of details that I wanted to include in my essay, and I had to do some editing in order to fit the project guidelines. I wanted to convey how powerful and moving that experience was for me. I also wanted it to have a lot of vivid

After reading these two essays, I realized my writing has changed immensely, but my reading did not differ at all. I still had a negative attitude towards reading, all the essays assigned were very lengthy and I would lose interest fast. Along with being a slow reader, it would take up to an hour to finish the essay. Every time I had to read for class, I would try to push it off to last minute. I never thought my reading would change because I dreaded reading for school. We only had a little bit of the semester left so I thought my view wouldn’t change. Then our last essay was assigned, and it was a game

Although writing papers usually comes easily to me, I found it particularly difficult to write this paper. At first I found it difficult to begin the paper. I struggled to organize my ideas in the beginning. Once I started writing, I couldn’t stop. Being restricted to only two pages, I struggled to say everything I wanted to say in a short and succinct manner. By the time I wrote all my own original ideas down, I didn’t have any room left for quotes. Only having two quotes in my paper hurt my grade because I did not have enough textual evidence. Every time I tried to add a quote, my paper went over the two page limit. I also struggled finding quotes that supported what I wanted to say. In the future, I need to do a better job finding textual

With what knowledge I have about writing, I feel like it needs improvement. I feel like I am so far behind with the knowledge of writing from other people. When I have a subject to write about I end up drawing a blank on how I should start out the paragraph. I will over think everything to where it gets to the point that I get so frustrated that I just want to quit.