This past semester had some difficult assignments that I wasn't fully prepared for. At the beginning of the semester my essays usually included a lack of vocabulary, punctuation errors especially with commas, and not understanding how to write thesis statements. This semester has truly taught me new ways to write, learning to write about topics I dislike or one’s I'm not sure how to write. This semester has really pushed me to the point where I can express myself in my writing and especially learning new writing techniques. Before I actually believed I was a pretty good writer, but now it's gotten even better. I hope that I will be able to become even better than I am now in my writing.
My skills in my writing have improved significantly since last year. Some of my introduction and conclusion strategies have improved increasingly, for example, “Many teenagers are brought to the attention of doing bad things”. My sentence structure and punctuation has also improved, for example, “McCandless never let people get him down because, he knew the things he did were going to be fascinating to tell one day”. And
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I actually love to write because, it's really expressing how I feel about a certain topic. Some areas of my writing I believe still need improvement would be my vocabulary and punctuation. I want to be able to use higher vocabulary in my writing like college vocabulary. Also, wanting to know where I have to put commas and capitalization. Some goals I plan to attain for second semester is increase in vocabulary, and writing in a more academic or formal tone. The steps I have to take in order to achieve these goals would be to search up better usage in words also look over others essays and comprehend off of those. If I'm able to improve these goals, I believe my writing skills will be completed. Therefore, I hope I'm able to achieve these goals and become a greater writer than I am
When going through life learning is an everyday occurrence as each day is constantly filled with information that is used throughout the course of your life. Each day we get stronger and stronger in whatever we decide to put our minds to, weather that be academics, sports, our jobs we are constantly learning and growing on a daily basis. This semester I have grown in English as I personally felt that through the English 102 course I have been able to grasp some key concepts and writing techniques that will better me for the future. In this class there was a list of goals and outcomes that the instructor felt would be achievable and the best way to learn throughout the course. In each goal throughout this process I feel like I have improved to some degree but there is other things that I do need to touch up on a bit more to further my writing education outside the classroom.
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
My relationship with writing has been much like roller coaster.Some experiences I had no control over. Other experiences were more influential. Ultimately it wasn’t until I started reading not because I had to read but because I wanted to, that's when my relationship reached change. I would have probably never cared about writing as I do today if it weren't for the critics in my family. When I was a child, my aunts and uncles always been in competition with who's child is better in school. I have always hated reading and writing because of the pressure to prove my family wrong was overwhelming for me. I had to prove them wrong and show them that I was capable of being "smart" which according to them was getting straight A's in all your classes.
Regardless of all of these improvements, I know my writing is still far from perfect. My arguments still lack the emotional appeal that, if present, would make my audience consider my arguments a lot faster. My analysis still lack development because often times I just state what happens instead of explaining why. In general, I need to work on controlling my voice and tone throughout an entire essay, which can be fixed if I choose my words more carefully to make sure my diction is uniform. Despite all of this, I am satisfied with myself, I am satisfied with the ways my writing has changed, with the way my writing skills have grown. Why? Because I am learning, and I know that I will continue improving as long as I take chances.
My development as a writer has flourished throughout this semester. The first week of this fall semester started out with writing responses from our readings in the textbook. Looking back through and analyzing my reading responses at the semester to now; I noticed a substantial improvement in not only my grammar skills, but also my summarizing, and in-depth studying of writing adeptness. Another way I have progressed this semester is the vocabulary of my writing has significantly improved and become more scholarly. Another advancement I noticed was that the content of my work has matured, along with my organizational adeptness.
In the past three months I feel like I have accomplished a great deal. As the semester comes to an end I find myself reflecting not only how I have survived the first semester but also what I have learned. The most important thing I have learned so far is how to become a better writer. I did not think it could really happen to me. I did not think I could handle all the work. I did not think I could actually become a better writer. Some how after all the hours of writing, and putting effort into the papers that I wrote this semester, I became a better writer. I did this because I concentrated on two very important areas, with the attitude of, if I could just become better in those then I would become a better writer. With help from an awesome teacher and a reliable tutor I have become a better writer by improving my skills in the areas of procrastination and content.
I learned from my peers that I am a better writer than I thought I was and that increased my confidence in my writing ability. This didn’t just teach me about myself; I learned how to write several different types of papers. I improved throughout the semester as I learned how to analyze for rhetorical appeals, research an issue, and evaluate a topic. I am glad that I was able to learn a lot from this class, as well as read my peers work. It was intriguing to see how others write and what topic are important to them. Lastly, I was proud of all my work that I accomplished in this
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 that I developed my own personal style a bit from this. At the beginning of the semester my writing was quite choppy and there was plenty of room for improvement in the overall flow of my essays. Now, I use several different tactics such as outlining to create better connections between paragraphs. I believe I was able to move beyond many of the high school ways of writing and make general improvements to my essays.
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.
Although I know there is still much to improve on in my writing, I feel as though I have made tremendous strides for my first semester. I have grown as a writer, and I believe I have the potential to be a great writer. Throughout my many years left here at The College of New Rochelle, I will continue to work hard so that my final year here at the college I can look back at my writings from freshman year to see my improvement. Writing 101 has boosted my confidence and has made me a better writer today. I will take this confidence along with determination to my writing 102 class, and I hope the professor will continue the molding process that Professor smart has started.
In my writing, i could improve more on upgrading the vocabulary. I'm not using so much ninth grade words but lower. There's some words I don't remember the definition of or just don't know how to add them in my writing. I need to improve on my sentence structure. This is a main problem in my writing. I would usually write a long sentence that would have more than fifteen words. Run-one and sentence fragments make it hard to avoid. In my personal narrative essay, there was many mistakes and errors. I needed to explain what I'm writing about. Most of the examples aren't in order. I could also improve on my reading. I need to practice making connections with what I've read. I don't understand what to do sometimes. It's hard to think about it. In the Crucible, I didn't know how to make connections, I used to make stuff up. Sometimes the life of the characters in the story couldn't relate to my own life. I also need to improve on looking up the meanings of unknown words. For example, the book I chose for my book project was “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare. I thought it was going to be easy, but it wasn't. There were a few scenes that didn't make sense until I re read them. There were words on many pages that I didn't know what they meant, but just skipped over them. Sometimes they dealt with the story that made it a little confusing. These are the skills, I need to improve
Though my writing has improved it still needs a lot of work. My writing skill is not where I would like it to be. English is the hardest class for me and I often find myself being surprised by my grades as I try to work very hard on my essays. My essays are often confusing and don't normally make a clear point.
...d myself having in high school. I still tend to be a little too wordy at times, I misplace commas, and I still forget how to properly cite my research sources every now and them. I think I have become a little more meticulous about looking over my papers, however. I make fewer careless mistakes and take more time writing my papers than I did in high school. My points of view are clearer, and I have not been using commas incorrectly quite as often. I hope to continue to improve in the next few years of college as well. I haven?t received an ?A? on a paper yet, so my goal for the next few years of college is to eventually be able to consistently produce papers worthy of ?As.? I would also like to apply my writing more in school by possibly writing for New Morning in the future. I think Introduction to Literature has had a positive impact overall upon my literary skills.
This semester I was able to flourish as a writer due to essays given in class. I am now better able to analyze prompts and to communicate my ideas better on paper. Although my writing has drastically improved, it has not always been that way. As evident through past essays, my writing was poorly structured and contained spelling errors. Also through practice this semester I was better able to write a concrete thesis statement, something I was puzzled with in my previous English courses. Now I am more confident in my writing, but I still believe that there are certain areas in my writing that could use some improvement. During this semester I have been able to look at my previous essay and see the progress that I have made.
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class, I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work to see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded.