Writing Analysis : My Writing

Writing is always a struggle. You have to analyze texts, search for sources, write multiple rough drafts, check for spelling and grammar issues, cite your sources, and support your statements with facts. The list goes even longer, but this is just enough to make anybody stressed. Everyone can relate to the struggles of writing, and personally, I have fallen victim to many of these struggles. However, even though writing is very difficult, you can gain experience on how to write successfully.

Throughout all four years of high school, the “meaning” of a race and all its components were described to me in great detail. My coach found that a three mile cross country race could apply to almost anything. He would analyze races by separating each mile. The first mile is run with one’s legs, the second with their brain, and the third with their heart. I never fully understood how the versatility of the science of a race. Immediately when thinking about how to explain my writing process and how I could reflect on this past semester while also encompassing the theme of love, the three mile cross country race that had been engrained in my brain came to mind.

I do write in a different voice than the one that I use in my personal day-to-day interactions, but it also depends on the style of writing and the situation. There are various kinds of papers that I have had to write in my academic career, such as, persuasion, argumentative, literature reviews, research, reflections, compare and contrast or descriptive. My voice in these different types of papers changes depending on the style I am writing; I am still the same person, just portraying my personality and voice in a different way. I believe this is one of the easiest ways to appeal to a certain audience and to attract people to read your writing.

Each small scenarios that happen in our live can have either a major or minor impact on them. For me, it had a major impact. The way I go about writing now is more clear. I put more thought into my thinking process first. Before I decide what I want to write about I make a list. The top part of my list are the things that are either important to me or just easy to talk about, as long as it stands true to the topic or prompt. This is important because beforehand I just picked something and wrote the bare minimum I needed to have to get an A or B in high school ,which is not very hard with certain teachers. From changing this one step my whole writing process became easier. This scenario, did start off very damaging. My attitude towards

When writing, I try to gather as much information about the topic, I am getting ready to discuss before I start writing. What that does is it helps me get organized and have a greater understanding about what I will be writing. Not only do I try to gather as much information, I also try to organize myself and my writing by starting an outline to help me stay on topic. As a writer, I am not always as confident as I wish to be. Some improvements I hope to gather from taking this class is being able to keep my writing flowing and sounding efficient. When writing has positive flow and understanding, people are more likely to stay engaged in what they are reading. Transition words, phrases, and sentences is also something I would like to improve.

To write my adventure book, I went through all the stages of writing process both in and outside of class to create a book I am proud of. The writing process involves many steps like prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and finally publishing and sharing. For the prewriting stage, we were brainstorming monster characters and the adventures they would go on for a lesson in class and this is where the idea of my adventure book was created. For the drafting stage, I would work on the draft of my story inside and outside of class. When working on my rough draft, I would go back and add more figurative language such as alliterations and onomatopoeias in my story.

In my process of writing, I needed a lot of creativity, energy and time to form a final draft of my essays. That includes drafting, revising, editing all the way to rewriting until I feel confident enough to turn in my final piece. In Merritt Writing PLO, process is described as, "Demonstrate thorough engagement with the iterative processes of reading, writing, and speaking". I have had the opportunity to involving with activities such as reading articles, writing different genre of essays, conference feedback, revision reflection as well as completing multiple journal articles. Before I begin my essay, we always have a brainstorm as a class on possible topics we could write on our essays. The first essay was about narrative, I didn’t have conference with professor but I did get some brainstorming ideas on what I want to write

When I first came this classroom, my basic writing was a way lower than I thought, because my writing was a kind of messy due to the missing of strong vocabulary words in my sentences, transitional word to tie up my sentences and how to use quotation more efficiently in my writing and to summarize someone else thought. In fact, a major part of those problems was related to my brainstorming because I was always doing a free writing, instead of organizing my thoughts or ideas after the brainstorming. Even though I was a poor, I learn the concept of organization and sentence structure, the way of summarizing and quoting, and to write the comparison and contrast essay.

In the paper on “An Essay On Writing” written by an Anonymous author he gives a reason for rejecting good writing. The author states that “the misapprehension that is necessary to write well in order to communicate. This is utter nonsense”. What he is saying is that there is no linking between writing and communicating. They are two opposite things. Just because you're good at communicating doesn’t mean you’re always great at writing, but you might be the total opposite. The author had two good points to back up his arguments one was he did a test with three different people. One of the three was controlled. What he did is he “gave each subject a pencil and paper and commanded him to write. After “three minutes and forty-seven seconds,”

In the past, my experiences with writing have been basic. Other than when I took an advanced English class my junior year of high school, I have taken the common English classes for those of my age. My English course during my senior year of high school was heavily weighted on our ability to write, even though the teacher never taught us how. He expected us to know how to write perfectly, and demolished us when we could not live up to his standards. In a way, this helped me become a stronger writer, but it definitely made me more self-conscious about my writing. With that being said, I would have to go on to say that my biggest weakness as a writer is the fact that I am extremely self-conscious about my writing. I do not like others to read

I have never thought of myself as a writer as I have never felt the urge to write. I consider myself competent at writing only because of content I was forced to cover during my twelve years of schooling. However, being forced to write does not make someone a writer; it makes him or her slave to meeting requirements of a peer who wishes to see an answer in written form, with no care or concern for journey the author actually went through. So the question should be, how have I become the writer I am today?

Writing, I mean the process that we implant our ideas in; use certain skills to arrange them in a pursuable way and of course polish the words with our heart, differs from what I learned under a circumstance of passing a class or getting a good grade in a language test. I am not born in a circumstance that widely use English, and writing to me is a subject that I need to pass my English classes. I do not like to write things with limited topics and selected materials because that is lame and it does not involve many personal interests in it, I like to write things that can deliver my ideas and thoughts with materials that I interested in. I am not a good writer as I lack of understandings of English itself, I cannot find suitable words that

There are various types of essays that can be written, which means there are many different styles that can be used to write essays, these styles include expository writing, persuasive, descriptive, and many others. Learning to utilize these writing styles has been very advantageous for me since they make writing much easier and make the whole writing process much smoother. Knowing what kind of essay I will be writing means that I will know what kind of writing style I will be using, which then helps me understand what I will need to do in order to properly write my essay. The use of these styles in high school will greatly prepare me for college level essays and for any sort of report I might have to write in my professional career.

As any artist does in their particular work of art, in order to become a great writer, you must be completely invested in what you are creating. Sentences must flow as if brush strokes, words must compile to create cohesive, clear, and complex thoughts as if colors. Writing is just as much of an art as painting, sculpting, or drama. Just like in writing, every artist has a particular style- the way the artist uses his brush, colors, canvas, tools- In writing a style can be shown by the writers distinct use of different sentence structures, distinct types of vocabulary, or other components that distinguish one writer from another. For myself, a great contributor into my style of writing was developed from a sense of humor obtained from a creative

After acquiring information, in reference to my personality type, it is evident that my writing style is reflective of an INTJ. Specifically, I tend to concentrate on a topic for an extended period of time to fully grasp the concept of the subject. Moreover, my formal and direct approach denotes my INTJ tendencies, and my ability to apply a logical perspective to virtually any topic, also showcases the INTJ classification. (Wenger, 2009). In addition to the aforestated writing characteristics, my writing style encompasses the active voice. In compliance with the text, the active voice is comprised of a sentence structure in which the subject carries out the action. (Mclean, 2013)