Reflective Writing Style

Writing is a practice that most of us were taught when we were young. We were taught the basics of grammar, how to form a sentence, conjunction words, how to write paragraphs and more. Although we have learned this skill while growing up and have used the skill every year after entering kindergarten, this does not mean our writing process will ensure the best work. The authors that I chose each encourage their audience to excel in the art of writing in their own way to help with the writing process.

Coming into this class, I wasn't sure what to expect. Of course,I expected to be writing a lot but was unsure of the type of writing and the style. I was looking forward to writing challenging pieces that stretching me creatively as a writer. I wanted to explore how to express myself in my writing because it had been a long time since I'd written a creative essay. One of my main hopes for this class was challenging myself to become a better editor of my own papers. I often find it a tedious and laborious process to find and edit the grammatical errors in my papers. However, this is an important skill that I need to develop for my future as a successful writer.

For this process reflection I am going to start with is what influences my writing and my process for writing. After that I will go a bit into what I’ve learned so far in the course and how that has add some influence on my writing as well. That being said isn’t all of our writing a reflection of ourselves? I’ll come back to that idea at the end if there’s room with this double spacing nonsense.

The only strength that I can think of when it comes to my writing style is expressing my ideas clearly and concisely. The last assignment was a little bit challenging because not in a million years would I have thought of active and passive writing styles. It’s not that I have not been taught these skills. However, writing has always been my favorite subject. Moreover, I am grateful that this class is teaching me about writing on a professional level because this is a paramount skill to have in any profession. The last assignments, Call and Domestic Violence, I struggled a bit because I classify my writing style as passive instead of active. When I discovered that active voice was frequently utilized in police writing, I was supervised. However,

I have been helping David’s mother for about 2 months now. First she came to the windows inquiring a motor vehicle case on which she was the victim. She had a case number, but I could not find the case in the computer. She asked me to help her at the Police Department and I went with her, she provided the case number to them , but PD’s didn’t have any reports under that case number.

As I reflect over the last nine weeks of class, I’m happy I was able to finally take a writing course to help improve my writing style. I have always shied away when it came to writing because it was something I did not enjoy to do and I did not understand the fundamental of writing.

One of the biggest problems I had when trying to write this, was to try and keep it completely original, instead of trying to make it just another ‘zombie apocalypse’ style story. By the end, it seemed pretty much the exact same as much of the other kinds of stories. Another big problem had been from when I would try to write down ideas before I forgot them and had wound up causing quite a few spelling problems, which I wasn’t able to fix.

Most people believe that when writing an essay their argument should only be presented using facts, regardless of who their audience is. According to Hephzibah Roskelly and David A. Jolliffe, authors of “Everyday Use: Rhetoric At Work In Reading and Writing”, most people are incorrect. Successful and effective writing involves many different components. Rhetors need to be able to understand not only the topic that they are writing about, but the way they need to deliver their ideas in order to attract the desired audience for their piece of literature. To know how to appeal to different audiences a writer must understand how to use the appropriate rhetorical strategies; the most important of these being intention and Aristotle’s three appeals;

In the past, I have always thought of style as an acquired skill. The author of this article immediately shoots this belief down by saying that style is not something you have or don't have. Rather style a way of expressing your attitude and feelings about a topic. The author then breaks down the eight guidelines of writing in "plain style". Some of these guidelines will be useful for constructing my final draft this week. For example, stating the action in the verb is something I need to review. In many of my sentences, I overuse helping verbs and keep the action verb too far from the subject. I will analyze if any of my sentences sound redundant or if they are too lengthy also. I will be keeping this chapter near me as I proceed to finish

Writing is a fun process that can be done by almost anyone because you can develop your own style or type of writing. There is not a set structure that you have to follow while writing, making every piece as unique as a butterfly. These past few weeks of writing have made me notice a few different writing techniques and methods that almost trademark the style of my writing. One thing that struck me as odd about my own writing was that I start with the climax of the a story. Another distinction I found was that I tend to change the story and cut phrases out more than i write. The third thing I discovered was that writing a fictional story is smoother for me.

As I came to English 45, I thought it was going to be a tough class, because it's an accelerated class. An accelerated class tends to be a fast-past class that covers 2 classes in one. When I got to English 45 I assumed that it wouldn’t be tough, although the results were opposites, English 45 gave me many challenged to face throughout the whole semester. Throughout this semester English 45 has thought me many different techniques to improve my English and writing. Ever since the first day, I felt confident about everything, although my confidence wasn’t always right because I learned that the grading and essay structure is different. When I got back the first essay that we did, I saw the challenges that I would be facing throughout the semester, because of each teacher/professor grades differently.

How do I . . . Write a Reflection? Why reflective writing? Reflection offers you the opportunity to consider how your personal experiences and observations shape your thinking and your acceptance of new ideas. Professors often ask students to write reading reflections. They do this to encourage you to explore your own ideas about a text, to express your opinion rather than summarise the opinions of others.

In the ninth grade, my Literature teacher introduced poetry to me in the form of spoken word. I would have never thought that a Shakespeare recitation assignment would have been the window to a world of one of my greatest passions. Since then, I immediately hit the ground running; performing and competing in poetry slams and competitions in my hometown community of Augusta and around the state of Georgia. I knew that words were what I wanted to dissect and assemble, and the stage was where I wanted to be. Years later, I chose a Creative Writing concentration at Georgia State University, and the embarking of a distinctive style began. I soon became torn between the voices of spoken word and written poetry. I learned that there is a skill and a beauty to both, and I have been able to begin fostering a different skill at GSU. The conservational and sometimes rhythmic style of my performance poetry has infused with the illustrative and technical style of my written poetry, and vice versa. The diverse curriculum of my professors, critiques, and insight from other poets in workshops have helped me to become comfortable with owning a distinct and unique voice on the page, as well as the stage.

I decided to take Writing 101 not only because it’s a degree requirement but, because I wanted to understand sentence structures and punctuation at a higher level. When I first started writing 101, I had a High School level writing skill that had severely degraded over time and a lack of confidence in my writing capabilities. This entire experience honestly took so much time out of my schedule because I felt like I had to relearn everything. I would take extra time to go through the courses and even reach out and do my own research just to make sure I really understood. I have to say I’m still learning punctuation and probably won’t be comfortable with it for a while but I have a lot more confidence in my writing.

Writing has always been one of my stronger subjects through all of my years of being a student. My last semester of highschool I was put into a class called writer's craft. I had to write a paper almost everyday, so I got used to the writing routine. I would have considered myself a decent writer before this course began, but I still had to work on some techniques. Before this course started I had no idea how to do in text citations, I had very little experience of descriptive writing, how to correctly present, and my writing was all over the place. Some papers that I wrote in the past did not really flow.