What Would You Like You As A Writer?

Over the course of this semester I learned a lot about myself as a writer. This English 101 class has really allowed me to expand my essay structure and ways of thinking. This was my first college writing course and it has given me much more freedom when writing because in high school I felt limited and like what we were writing was not very important. In high school I would write essays to just to fulfill the required word or page count and to a degree I still feel like this but maybe that is why I am an engineering major but in this course I actually was able to express my ideas and for the first time really test the limits of my writing capabilities. I really enjoyed being able to incorporate my voice more in my essays and I believe

Throughout this semester we have had to write many types of essays. Although this is a college English class there is still room for improvement. I made much improvement during the semester of the class. I was able to identify my weaknesses. I learned how to make improvements to the areas I was having problems in. Although each essay we did was different I was able to begin with one essay and throughout the semester turn it into two other essays. I was able to change my style of writing to fit the type of audience I was working with. I will continue to work on my writing and keep improving it.

Moreover, I consider homework assignments and activities in this course to be helpful. They have enhanced my writing skills, as I know how to write a story, a scenario, and how to support my argument. Frankly speaking, English writing must be my weakest point. However, due to our professor, all instructions were given in a precise manner and I could understand all tasks.

The main reason why I chose to revise this essay was because it was one of my lowest essay grades, so I knew I could find my mistakes and make this essay stronger. Furthermore, after I looked at the feedback that was given to me, I realized I could fix the errors that affected my grade. The major improvements I made in this essay was making my introduction more clear by making it easier to understand what my topic was about and relatable. I also made changes to my conclusion because I did not think it summarized my body paragraphs and was not developed enough. Lastly, the minor changes I made in this essay was providing examples to support the points that I made and to make them

Makhanlall, to see where I needed improvement. The essay is written from the perspective of knowledge by participation. In reviewing this essay, I noticed that I needed some sentence improvement in particular areas and went about correcting those areas. In my opening paragraph I failed to properly use a comma. I needed a comma to separate my ideas and better engage the reader; indeed, it has to do with maintaining a proper flow. In the opening of my second paragraph, I realized that I did not adequately utilize a common, and I pluralized “whys” when it wasn’t necessary; if fact, it changed the meaning of the entire subject matter. The third sentence in the same paragraph also needed to be touched up. I began the sentence with “Out of nowhere”, instead of “Then”, in order to express to the reader the feelings of surprise I felt at that time. As I read further into the sentence, I realized that I needed to separate the sentence into two, in order to express the point more effectively. I believed that the essay would be better served if I added another sentence that implemented a bit of ethos. What do you do when confronted with a situation where you fail to understand how you fit into the equation? From there, I went to the conclusion, because I needed to improve my punctuation and eliminate some of the excess verbiage that did not do justice towards finalizing the essay.

This course has helped me enhance my writing abilities and display the rhetorical purpose of my essays. Coming from Lebanon, this course has definitely been a challenge, yet I believe I have learned a great deal this semester. This course encouraged me to engage in ideas of my own that I discovered throughout my writings. The articles I have read challenged me intellectually allowing me to view a writer’s perspective on a specific topic. The engagement with my classmates and the feedback given during this class gave me the opportunity to extend my thinking abilities. The two main techniques that I have learned this semester is; identifying the purpose of my writing, integrating evidence from my articles and supporting my statements.

There was many steps that helped me improve in this class including drafts and peer-evaluation worksheets. Having a rough draft is one of the best ways to help me improve on my essays because it gives me a professional eye to see the problems that I’m not able to. Discussing the prompts of our essays had benefited me because it gave me a sense of direction of where I should start and another perspective. Peer-evaluation worksheets are also one of the great tools used to improve my writing because it gave me a different approach on my essay that is by peers. They wrote some particularly useful revisions I should make to increase the value of my writing. By having a rubric to follow as guidelines had immensely improved

My opportunities that I am still needing to work on is my quotes and ensuring that they are in the correct format, I had a better result on my grade this time for what I did accomplish on the format but I still missed some minor items to properly place my quote in the text. Also, I did have a run on sentence in my introduction which I overlooked during my proofreading. Finally, as for any particular attention to my next essay I felt that Dr. Bean was hinting at the details of the little errors that I made on my essay.

Hi my name is Alberta Nemeth, I am a freshmen here at Lamar Institute of Technology. I believe I will learn from this course how to write a perfect essay using proper english, grammer, and punctuation. I also think that I will leant how to capture, persuade, and respond in all of my essay's that I may have to write, along with any projects I may have in the near future.

In English 102 I would consider it to be the best education academic writing experience of my education. There would be times where I could say I struggled the most in class was with my grammar and word choices. Throughout my attendance, I intended to prove myself to Professor Hohmann, who is an English professor at CAC (Central Arizona College) that I can write professionally as a student. I created six assignments in the English course to prove myself that I can compose assignments and research as well as my peer college classmates. The tasks that were given to me for grades were beneficial for other classes, career and in life. One of the assignments was a research paper on a specific topic that I desired, which needed to be a debatable discussion. An additional task that helped me out with my writing was the

During this semester, I have learned a great deal about my own writing, and writing in general. One of the main takeaways from this course for me was how to break down the intricate process of writing papers. In addition, I developed viable skills regarding going into more in-depth detail during each step of the writing process. I enjoyed having the freedom to write about a topic that I was able to choose. This allowed me to research and write about something that actually interested me immensely. Having to work with one topic for the entire semester taught me how to find reliable resources and how to pick out the essential research from each article.

Three substantial changes I made to my essay. I improved the introduction, provided more examples of college writing and my personal experiences in my body paragraphs and fixed the conclusion. In paragraph one, is where I made my first change the introduction was too short and needed more detail on what I was going to discuss in the essay so it could appeal more to readers and they can understand what I was trying to get across. Instead of only just saying my definition of college writing, in my change I talked and went into detail about my main points. The next change to my essay was the providing more examples in the body paragraphs. In paragraph three, I only provided one example of college writing. In the change of my essay, I’ve decided

I have incorporated many of the strategies I recently learned throughout the course of the semester to improve both my in-class and out-of class essay. To start off with I enhanced my introduction on both essays expanding the main idea in my thesis and thoroughly answering the prompt question. I also, changed a few of my word choices, because most of them did not specify or convey my thoughts clearly. Now, for my evidence as I referred back to previous reading selections I correctly formated my quotes placing quotation marks and commas in the right place as well as paraphrasing key concepts into 25 words or less in only one sentence to explain a chosen quote. Many rearrangements were made in my body paragraphs where I would start my ideas but not finish my analysis. Adding examples either from experience or any related ideas, made both my essays so much better and more coherent. Lastly, I appended much more information to wrap up my conclusions, since they were not straightforward or neither restate my thesis statement.

The third essay that was written was a critical argument. This assignment required me to choose two articles from the school library and write an essay stating my opinion on a particular subject. The topic I chose was medical marijuana. This topic was interesting to me, so it made the assignment fun. On this essay I had fewer mistakes than in previous essays. I continued to struggle with APA citation and the use of commas. When I looked at the feedback from this essay, it gave me confidence. I felt that I was learning and my writing skills were improving.

English has always been my second least favorite subject. No matter it will always be a subject I don’t like because of all the writing. Since junior year in high school however, I think I have been enjoying it a lot more. Throughout this class I learnt new things, not a lot of new thing, but new important things. I have improved in my use of quotations, something I have struggled with since sophomore year of high school. I still have hiccups from time to time, but that’s just part of the writing process. All the revising made me realize I make a lot of the same mistakes in each paper, so I should work harder to eliminate those mistakes all together. We wrote a lot of things, we revised a lot of things, but the essay I will be talking about are Writing Task B and Essay 1. These two essays mark two different stages in this class and I am going too discuss how I went about writing these and how the final product, in my own opinion, came out.