The Circuit: A Literary Analysis

My last essay in my TSI prep class, and perhaps the most important. i expected to write how i see my improvement and how i will proplay never make mistake again. The truth is looking realistically far back i seem to have made a small but circumstantially big change in the way i write. I don't know if my teacher could agree though i would disagree with that observation , because the teacher has only had me for a small amount of time i have lived in my head long enough to see i have made great progress. I've come so far from hardly being able to write a complete sentence and not even understanding what that even was , to fully grasping the concept of story writing and proper spelling. My hard work thought these years has finally payed off when this class allowed me to see the errors of my ways ( or should i say writing?) . I am forever grateful for the opportunities and lessons this course has provided for me and with a wholesome heart vowe that its lessons will never be forgotten , but shall always be used and treasured like a precious bible that can open eyes to many but has to be truly believed

I started the school year on the right foot, I did my homework, classwork, and quizzes. I have been very skilled at writing papers, I have improved so much this year in that aspect of the class. I have found myself writing essays for other classes faster with a high quality, Realizing that I am making mistakes and learning how to improve made me a good writer. When I look at my vignette final draft rubric I feel proud because i did a very good job, I feel that was a very strong representation of myself. When I look at the how-to-essay I feel disappointed and really embarrassed because I was being lazy and not trying my best. I feel I have improved because I can see the grades that i'm receiving on all the recent papers I have

The improvements that I need to make are simple. Learning how to properly cite a source in an essay and citing it at the end. The right punctuation is something I need to be careful with and I need to work on. I feel that’s what I need to worry about the most. I also often get stuck and thoughts are often blank. I hate when I write and I lose my thoughts and become stuck.

As I look back, College Composition has improved my writing techniques and skills by directing me through tons of practice with writing, readings, and examples from the textbook, in-class discussions and helped me notice my strengths and weaknesses as an English student. Some of my strengths that can be shown in my previous essays are: my ability to free-write with lots of detail, structuring an essay correctly, constructing a very well organized and detailed essay, and manage time and use it to construct a well- thoughtful essay, my thesis statements in all four of my essays were structured correctly, and also, it can take me less time to come up with a debatable topic for my essay than it did at the beginning of the semester; therefore, I have quite a bunch of weaknesses, it can take me a while to start an essay, still to this day, and I can’t begin to write an essay without completing the introduction paragraph first, every now and then the structure of my sentences can cause a problem and a hard time for the reader to understand what I’m really trying to say, and trying to get my point to come across clearly may be a challenge for me as well; also, I’ve noticed that in my previous essays I had put a few commas in the wrong places or missed some commas in a sentence, I have also misused semi-colons, sometimes I have used the wrong word or phrase in a sentence which has made my sentences really unclear and ending an essay with a conclusion paragraph can take me some time

The final weeks of my first semester in college are coming to an end. My Columbus State english class has written a total of three projects, and a total of four papers. There are a lot of grammatical issues that, at the beginning of the year, I had issues on. However, I have improved on these errors drastically, and have become a better writer because of it. Even though I am still working on many aspects of my writing, I do believe that I have become a better writer. I believe that my biggest issues while writing are run on sentences, making a strong thesis statement, and having quotes stand alone at the beginning of a paragraph.

I believe that my writing has improved, because now I have direction to start to write as prewriting, clustering, summarizing and making list and my ideas come out easily. However some topic can be harder that other for that reason you have to apply all the grammar rules. Furthermore I learned that the peer review is helpful to enlarge the ideas, because is based in other opinion before the reader sees it. In the past I didn’t like write much but now that I have the rules how write and how easy can be I enjoy write and the same time improve my grammar and my vocabulary expands. Therefore the oral presentation can be more fluent and I can have connection with the audience. In conclusion the reason I say that my writing had improve because

Over the year I have made a tremendous amount of progress as a writer. I have improved my grammar and reduced the amount of run-on sentences in my writings. Throughout the year my writings have made a lot of improvement and my grades throughout the year reflect this well. In the beginning of the year my writings were very choppy or unorganized and didn’t flow very well but now they have structure and are very detailed. I have gone from getting an h5 on my first writing to a h8-9. This year, I have learned to make corrections, do extra research, and take time on my writings or essays. My writings this year show my strengths, weaknesses, growth and made me set goals for next year.

My skills of consolidating my thoughts have improved. In previous years, I used to not be able to have focus in my essay. Now I incorporate my voice in essays to create purpose. Also this year I’ve written my most favorite essay yet, my college essay. Contradictory to what I wrote about, I needed to have that essay perfect, and I wouldn’t be okay sending in a terrible draft. Determination helped pushed me to create an essay I was quite happy with. While I still struggle to open my mouth during discussions, I feel like I’ve improved during this first semester of senior

To begin with, my punctuation has gotten a lot better. I made a lot of errors during the beginning of the year and I am starting to make a lot less. Also, my thesis statements have gotten tremendously better. At the beginning of the year they were really boring. As the year began to progress, the statements got more interesting and creative. My analysis throughout essays have gotten better. I am much better now at determining things like theme, tone, and finding many literary devices. I can also set up my essays

My writing skills which I have worked on over the few months I have been in English 102 have changed quite a bit in my opinion. There are many things which I have improved upon that were amongst my weaker writing skills when the year began. On the opposite side of that point, there are also many things which I still need to improve upon if I want to truly elevate my writing to a level that I will be confident in. Finally, I have gained new skills outside of writing from this class, particularly the activities which we did in class at various points throughout the year. These things all cumulate together to give me an appreciation of English courses which I did not previously have.

In this past 2 years I had been improving with my writing. Mainly, when I am not having the pressure of the essay I relax more. For example, write in discussion with classmates it is a less stressful process for me. Also, I love to talk about something that I know as in the case of the first week of this class the blog. I wrote more than 300 words without difficulties. I think for the first time enjoyed writing.

At the beginning of the year I didn't feel as confident, I felt scared and different about writing; but I didn't feel the same way as I feel now about writing in english. The reason I didn't feel as confident at the beginning of the year is because I was an ESOL student. During the two years of me being an ESOL student my english grew from level 1 to level 6, meaning that I no longer need any help in understanding English. After many tries, I finally reached my goal in writing I wanted to be at; as a student in 8th grade. I had many weakness that I tried my best to become better at, such as, proper word usage, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. But not only I felt uncomfortable with my writing, I also felt uncomfortable in speaking

From this essay, I learned that proofreading is really important. I realized that I made simple mistakes that could’ve been avoided if I had just proofread the essay.Then I realized how much of a difference actually planning your essay makes.When given the time to plan you should really take advantage of the time. Planning makes writing an essay a whole lot easier it allows you time to think about how to organize your essay.I do believe I’ve improved since this essay. Now I take the time to slow down and re-read my essays making sure that I don’t forget words, add unnecessary words or just say things that don't make sense.

I believe that my approach to writing has changed over the course of the semester. My confidence in my writing has grown, as well as my knowledge in sentence structure, grammar, and word choice. At the beginning of the year, I doubted my writing abilities, but at this point, I feel as though I can handle large, intricate papers. I did not expect my writing to change drastically, but I did expect the small, technical details in my papers to improve, and I think they did. Overall, I have grown about as much as I expected to as a writer, and it has been very beneficial.

Over the course of the semester, there has been numerous amount of areas where I believe I have improved in comparison to high school. What has helped me in my writing is the writing class and the in-class writing workshop. The writing class that is located in the Kremen education building has helped me with my writing greatly because in the writing center the person in charge teach us lenses and we apply those lenses to the writing, draft, or reading that someone brings in. The in-class writing workshop has helped me because other students get to read my writing. This is helpful because I get feedback from many students and they let me know what needs to be fixed. A new tool I have been using is They Say I Say. The book is very helpful because of the information and examples it provides such as the templates. I have been applying the templates into my essays and I have seen a significant difference.