Growing up, I’ve always been a writer. Whether it be writing songs, stories or just jotting down my dreams. My imagination is still as extensive as it was ten plus years ago. In fact in many of my essays and writings, I’m well-known for coming up with great concepts and ideas to elaborate on. However As I entered college last year I began to notice the difference between writing for myself and writing for someone else to comprehend. When I’m writing for myself, I can use any form of slang, wording, sentence structure or punctuation. However, when it comes to my writing ability for others to understand, that’s where I fall short. Throughout my essays in this course, I’ve came across numerous grammar mistakes. A few examples of mistakes I’ve made in the essays I’ve submitted for this course are, the use of passive instead of active voice, the use of informal tone and the countless use of the word “that” and the poor presentation of my essays as a whole. Even though my focus and essay concepts are terrific, my grammar is tremendously lacking. …show more content…
My inadequate grammar choices hindered my grade throughout the semester. I began noticing my mistakes after I received feedback from my first essay “The Carls Junior Ad”. I was using single present verbs such as “geared” (Jones 1). In my more recent essays in this course I began correcting some of my passive voice, however I still missed the mark when it came to fully correcting the passive to active voice. In the beginning of correcting my passive voice, I focused mostly on correcting the passive verb to active rather than reconstructing to sentence as a whole. While correcting the “Not all Texans” I noticed the sentence choice “Molly Ivan was an author and
The first essay given in this course was about our whole composing process. This essay was hard to write about and I remember having several grammar mistakes. Sitting down and writing my process on paper,
So far this year, I felt pretty satisfied with my progress this semester. I feel like I am slowly adapting to the new way papers and assignments are handled. All my college work depends solely on me now. No one is going to baby me anymore and whether I succeed or fail depends on how much effort I put into something. For the first time in my life I wrote a paper. Not just a five paragraph essay but actual pages, which is extremely challenging. It’s also been my first time studying for five hours straight so I can pass an actual test. I didn’t know I possessed this level of dedication, it’s probably because it isn’t free.
Did professors pay attention to students writing? Where my parent aware of my terrible writing skills? We all arrive to that age where we want to improve our self for better. Personally, I really want to improve my writing skills. It’s embarrassing that at my age I have terrible grammar errors and make no sense when I write.
Before coming into English 1101, I was pretty confident in my grammar abilities. However, during the beginning of the semester, I failed to spot some simple grammar mistakes due to my carelessness which significantly hurt the essay’s legitimacy. I learned to spend more time editing my papers with more cautiousness of these errors. Peer editing other classmates’ paper helped me learn about my own mistakes, because I learned to spend more time on it, providing more insightful feedback. The peer review exhibit demonstrates my growth on finding these errors. After identifying the errors, I gave the author suggestions to how she could improve her
Since coming to UCCS my writing was changed quite dramatically. When I first enrolled at UCCS I was sure that I would not need to complete any additional English courses. As, I had CLEP English Composition previously and completed a master’s Degree, but I was informed that I had not competed the corrected CLEP, so I would need to take both ENGL 1300 and ENGL 1305. Looking back this has been a blessing in disguise. I have always struggled with sentence structure, spelling, grammar, paragraph transitions, and writing in the correct tense. Starting with Ms. Ross in 1300, I began to work on the fundamentals of sentence structure, grammar, and spelling. Along with these basics, Ms. Ross worked with me to build my understanding that it is not always
As I look back at my experience during this class, I would consider my accomplishments were improving my writing style, which has not only helped me in this class but other classes and will also be beneficial in the future. I think when it comes to what I could have done differently, I would suggest taking better notes during each of the readings, especially the ones that I felt were hard for me to comprehend, and resulted in me reading the story over. Out of all the readings at first I enjoyed the “Troubadour” the story was easy to understand and I enjoyed the ending. After completing my final paper, I find myself not necessarily enjoying reading “Other Voices, Other Rooms” but I did enjoy researching the Queer Theory and its relation to the
When it came to my Comparison Essay, I did not have a lot to revise. Most of my revisions seem very small or things I should have already known not to do. I did really well on this paper even though I had a hard time writing it. I wanted to revise this paper because I made silly mistakes that I should have known when writing this paper. One of those mistakes was not putting the last names of some authors on quotes.
The decision to go back to school after twenty years was easy. Getting enrolled in school and moving forward with the decision was exciting and frightening at the same time. Growing up, I always knew enough about proper writing techniques to get through my English writing classes with good grades. I often helped others with their English homework and report writing throughout my middle and high school years. Growing up with my grandmother, she was one to always correct us in our conversations on proper English. The big one she would correct us on was, “she and I “or “them and I”, she was a strict one when it came to putting yourself last when asking or telling someone something that included you. When I took the assessment for getting enrolled
Over this year, I haven’t changed that much. I’ve always had poetic power and dramatic detail. I’m a sharp thinker, and I consider ideas in the broader freer scope. I guess that isn’t exactly the best when I’m writing essays. I don’t do specific observations or explain the evidence, I use generality a lot, to be honest. This hasn’t changed in my writing or my thinking patterns.
The grammar and usage in all my writings, however, is a little poor. Most of the time, I am ignorant to the simplest grammatical and mechanical mistakes. The composition of text was different in every project. For example, the Storify and the Multimodal Photo Essay required me to include more pictures, but the Summary and Response and the Compare and Contrast Essay required more writing and text. In the Storify and Multimodal Photo Essay, the pictures were used to carry the thesis statement instead of the words. The text in these projects were used to explain further what each images meant. In the beginning of the English course, I was unfamiliar with the format used, but as more projects were assigned to me, I became more familiar with the format and I am able to write in the appropriate format without referring to the given template. I, however, am sometimes confused with the format on the work cited page especially in the Multimodal Photo Essay. Through my analysis, I discovered that my grammar and usage needs to be improved. The more drafts I wrote, the more I become less aware to the incorrect usage of grammar. Mechanical and grammatical errors occur when I do not thoroughly look through my essays. Therefore, I have mastered half of objective four, which is composing text in various genres and having good control with the format. I hope to be
Writing is an important part of everyone’s life, whether we use it in school, in the workplace, as a hobby or in personal communication. It is important to have this skill because it helps us as writers to express feelings and thoughts to other people in a reasonably permanent form. Formal writing forms like essays, research papers, and articles stimulates critically thinking. This helps the writer to learn how to interpret the world around him/her in a meaningful way. In college, professors motivate students to write in a formal, coherent manner, without losing their own voice in the process. Improving your writing skills is important, in every English class that’s the main teaching point; to help students improve their writing skills. Throughout my college experience I have acknowledge that
Last year, in the 8th grade, I had two best friends. One named Maya and the other named Jane. Maya, Jane, and I were all unquestionably close friends, but one day all Maya wanted was to be popular and be friends with another girl who threw entertaining parties. Soon, Maya stopped hanging out with us as much and it was just Jane and me.
The time I've been misunderstood is when the final report cards came out. My parents were very disappointed in me but they did not understand that I was trying very hard. They never gave me a chance to explain, if I would of got chances to explain I wouldn't of been misunderstood. I always understand where they are coming from though. As parents they have all rights to be angry at me for not meeting the standards of grades that I usually do. I just really wish they could understand that it's a one time thing and I would never intentionally try to disappoint them like that on purpose.
Although high school was over for me in June 2009, I still think about the memories of my freshman, sophomore, and junior years. In these first three years of my high school experience I did not participate in school activities except drama club and a beauty pageant. I regret my decision of not participating in clubs, or going to the sport games, and not attending events in school. I would go back and change this decision for many reasons. Not participating in school resulted in me not meeting as many classmates as I could have. Also, it became hard for me to fill out college applications, because I did not have anything to state in the school activities section. Finally, not participating in school for the first three years will result in me not being able to share many high school experience in the future with my family.
Before entering this class, I thought I was prepared for college English. I had incredibly capable high school English teachers, who taught me detailed mechanics, creative writing style, and of course, the necessity of practicing good grammar. On entering this class, I quickly realized how little I had actually learned in my high school English classes. While most of my high school English essays I wrote were based on literature, the majority of the essays I wrote in this class have been more experiential and centered on real-life issues. I expected to be writing essays on books I read and articles I analyzed, but that was not the case. This class showed me in a variety of ways that things are often very different than they seem originally