Writing : A Writer You Make Mistakes With Your Work

When I stop to think about the memory’s that I have made during my first semester of college; there are both good and bad pieces or times that present themselves. Often with many things there are gray areas, and writing would fall in there for me. I fortunately understand now that I have times where I can over look many of my writing flaws. Such as sentence structure! This by far was my biggest problem in this class, and I fully understand why. Personally I have times that will type up a paragraph and never notice the mistake. That is until someone points it out to me. It’s almost like my brain knows that something is wrong with it, but for some unknown reason it won’t register when I’m revising my paper. So as a writer I have realized that I need to take advantage of people around me and get their feedback on my essay’s; because

I doubt my abilities to write severely. I believe I will be able to learn a massive amount of skills to strengthen my writing capabilities. One of my goals is to understand proper punctuation. Knowing where to place commas or what mark belongs where, is something I struggle with. Another goal I hope to accomplish is knowing whether or not I have written a run-on sentence. Deciding if a sentence is too long is a quality I do not have. A last thing I would like to achieve during this class is finding my voice. Every powerful writer has their own voice to make their writing unique and I would like to find my writing

It was my first writing class as a college freshmen and I did not know what to expect, like whether or not the class would be harder compared to what I took in high school or even if I would enjoy taking class. But as soon as day one turned in into week one, than soon week fifteen I felt more comfortable in the class than what I have probably felt in the beginning. I felt like I could write anything my professor threw at me, because through writing I could express my individuality. It gives me the freedom to express myself through words, and write about things I felt passionate about writing about. I felt as though I writing because I wanted to, and less because I was assigned to do so.

From the beginning of the semester to now, my improvement is almost breathe taking. I now know what a good writing is, and I take consideration into whatever it is I am writing instead of just putting words together and putting them down on paper. Of course I am not perfect; I still have some areas that I can focus on to help myself become an even more advanced writer. Comma splices, sometimes-even uses of dead words are my weaknesses. We are all creatures of habit, and straying away from those old habits are complicated.

Writing in your class has been appropriately challenging so far. I feel like I am being pushed further as a writer, improving my skills so one day I’ll be able to use them. It has not been extremely easy for me to write stuff for your class, as some of the assignments are harder for me than others.

In the beginning of the semester my writing skills were not so great, as I look back now and see how much I have grown and became a stronger writer. Now I am proud to say I have stronger writing skills. During the time of me trying to adjust to college life, there were many different obstacles I had to overcome. Some of which are procrastination, criticism, and comma and punctuation placement. Some of which I still have trouble with today, but I am way better then I first started.

Socrates once said: “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Though this quote can be applied to many aspects of life, it is also true about me as a writer. Throughout this school year I have made many changes as a writer. I have improved greatly as time has passed and I have learned from my mistakes. At the beginning of the year I had little knowledge of what a thesis statement is, and what I thought I knew was wrong. Also, I used no transitions between my thoughts and ideas. It made so my ideas did not flow well. The introductions to my essays were vague and undetailed. This made my papers confusing. Altogether, my writing did not sound good. Now I have made changes to my writing through my thesis statements, use of transitions, and introduction paragraphs.

The biggest error a writer can do in his essay is use, “In this essay I will talk about”, “In this paper”, and “I believe” are a few example of lack of confident a writer can show. Obviously the paper is supported by reliable sources use by the writer to empower his argument, therefore there is no need to write “I” all the essay is about the writer supporting topic.

In conclusion, I had a great time in this class. I have developed in my writing skills and the confidence I have in my writing abilities; this semester has taught me some key life skills that go past a simple English but skills that will be applied.

I have changed so much as a writer throughout this quarter in your class. For example, coming into your class my conclusion was horrible and I knew it was because teachers told me this in the past, but never really told me how to fix it. Until you finally told me when writing your conclusion ask yourself “So What”. This helped me so much and it shows on assignments like the Autoethnography. Like you always say, “If you know better, you do better”. The biggest reason my writing skills have improved is because of the amount of writing we do in your class. I have written more papers in this class in one quarter than I have written in 4 quarters in my Honors English class last year. Crazy right? The fact of the matter is that practice makes perfect. The more I practice something the more flaws I will catch and

This semester has been really exciting for me as well as it has been more challenging than I had expected. Before this semester I used to think that I am a good writer but I knew there is something lacking in my writing ability which I realize during in this semester. I had discovered so many drawbacks of writing and provide me opportunities to improve my weaknesses. When I started Studying English 101 composition in this semester at USM, I thought I was going to spend my hours of study in reading some classics story, discussing them and then writing about them which I used to do in High School English course in Nepal, so I didn’t think that it would be much different here. English is not my first language and in most of my English class I

I believe it is important for any student who wants to do their best in a class to take a moment to evaluate their own work to determine the rate their writing is progressing and how they can continue to advance their writing. When I looked through my own work I asked myself “what have I learned this semester?” and “what do I still need to learn in order to improve my writing?”. Answering both these questions will help me with my last step of my self-evaluation, developing a plan to learn new skills.

It has truly been a pleasure being apart of this class and a blessing. I’ve strengthen my written and learned more about life by being in this class and having you as a teacher. Professor Lyn you have made me push myself more than any of my other college professors this school year. Hearing and knowing about how precise and hard you are when you grade your student’s work had me coming into this class with the mindset of knowing that I have to work my hardest to achieve an high grade in this class. My weaknesses in my writings before this class were my punctuations and grammar choice at times. My strengths that I’ve always had when writing was being able analyze my readings extremely well and always being able brainstorm great ideas to put down

I believe that my writing has grown tremendously over the school year. I truly believe that I used more complex vocabulary in my writing since the first writing assignment that the class participated in. I feel that my initial strengths were able to have an idea of how the flow of my writing will go but the syntax and word choices were hard to form out. I have learned so much new strong diction that relates to the general topic that is presented in the question or assignment. I believe that this class has really prepared me for the next part of my education and the latter part of my life.

Whenever I think of writing, I think about the anxiety that it causes. Every time I submit a draft of an essay I always have a fear in the back of my mind that it is not good. It doesn't matter how many times I have revised, or I have had others proof-read it. Much of this stems from a fear of failure. This is no surprise considering that any given piece of writing can have a large impact on one’s grade. However, in writing failure is inevitable. In school, failure can have lasting impacts which is why it installs such fear. With the writing process, however, failure is extremely important. No one has ever started with one draft and had it become a masterpiece: even the best authors have editors. By taking a piece of writing and continually revising it through failure something worthwhile will emerge. Failure will always be a part of writing because it allows for creative risk and revision by its very nature is simply correcting failure.