My senior year of english has been the most challenging yet the most beneficial. Some might say that writing is irrelevant to their life when in reality having the skill to writing clearly and is very important. Having the ability to write precisely can simply show a difference of a good writer from a great writer. Writing is not an easy subject to get the hang of so studying hard and writing a lot of essays in high school (that’s when we get taught proper writing skills) will for sure benefit the future. It can benefit if you are looking for a job, writing college applications and especially sending in scholarships. When I was first developing my writing skills my first couple years of high school I noticed that I wasn’t a very good writer …show more content…
More specifically the tone, vocabulary and sentence structure made it very unpleasing to read. With every essay I noticed I got better and better with my writing style and eventually got higher scores. However, I know it took me awhile and it was a little frustrating along the way but I know essays are not easy to write. I learned that not everyone can just grab a piece of paper and pencil and great a great essay. It takes time to accumulate a good writing technique. Although, I have never been a strong writer I know I can write a decent paper if I try hard and make sure to get feedback from my classmates. I have also learned through this course that I maintained a much better grade when we only wrote responses. This was because the responses were shorter and I could write straight to the point. Whereas my essays felt like they just drag on about nothing because I am not always sure what to keep writing about without repeating myself over and …show more content…
For instance, our last presentation essay was about commercials and ads and digging deep about why the producers make the ads they way that they do. We did this assignment with a partner and I think it helped me write better because talking with someone helped me make my thoughts more clearer. I also got a mucher better grade on that paper than any other essay in that class. I learned that they are either Ethos, Pathos or Logos to grab the viewer's attention and what they don’t put in the commercials to distract them from the reality of the product. Another example is when we read the different homeless articles and had the big class discussions about them. I know I didn’t participate a lot in the discussions but that was because I liked to hear other people's opinions about the topic. That’s when I started noticing how quiet I can be during a discussion when I should probably be more
As the first semester of my sophomore year wraps up, I begin to realize that I have learned a lot in all of my classes. The class that I learned the most from has definitely been my English 111 course. This class have given me so many opportunities to improve my writing skills. With all of the success I’ve had in this class, I believe I will do just fine with writing later in my life.
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
The art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.
During my English courses throughout high school, I learned many things from writing simple journals, research papers, and a single term paper. During high school, I was laid back and procrastinated for much of my work. During the latter part of high school when I wrote my term paper my senior year, I found out that working a little every night writing a few paragraphs helped me out greatly. I was not just throwing something together just to get the grade and the paper finished. I spent time on the paper and my grade, a B+, reflected my efforts. My resources were limited and the topic covered a subject that I did not find interesting at all. When I find something interesting to write about, that is when I can do my best work. When I wrote my term paper, I was not interested in the subject of the paper. I started looking up the information and successfully wrote the paper.
I haven’t done a lot of writing in the past. However, the writing I have done has just been for my school. I have never liked writing so I kept writing only to what I needed to write for school. But the kinds of writing I have done are reports, autobiographies, and writing about people from history. I never wanted to do my writing assignments like I was supposed to, which didn’t help me learn how to write. I also have the writing I did last semester, which wasn’t much. But the writing I did do last semester helped my writing so much. Last semester I learned how to put a paper together and what goes into a paper; I didn’t know a lot about writing before last semester. Also, I learned how to do MLA, which I had no idea how to do before. Writing is difficult and I don’t see myself using writing often.
A major lesson that I learned was to use different rhetorical styles when writing to help make your paper make more sense and seem more together. There are tons of different types of rhetorical styles that you can add to a paper but the ones that I enjoyed using this semester were clear, swift or sweet. I loved writing in a clear style because it was simple and did not take a lot of thought process. I also liked swift styles because it was short and to the point. The sweet style is something that I actually enjoyed writing in because it was something to please other people and not just myself. Another type of style that I loved to write with was comparison. I liked writing comparison papers because it gave you not only one subject to write about but two, which would make it easier to come up with information to write about. Logos, Pathos and Ethos are always throughout my essays and I have always tried to put at least one of two in every paragraph I write in my papers.
I have never liked writing; I always thought it was a waste of time. It was a great therapy but I never found academic writing to be useful just tedious. Only ever writing when I had too made it harder for my writing skills to grow or improve in any way. I have not taken an English class since the 10th grade, even then I never gave it much effort, just doing what I had to so I could pass the class. Then I jump in to College English 1010, I feel like I do well in all other subjects but this one. English is my worst nightmare.
In high school, writing changed dramatically. Getting praised for my good writing in middle school; now my writing was getting criticized and from my teacher's point view my writing skills weren't were they suppose to be. Hardly ever being glad to free write, I was given topics that seemed to get difficult each time I was given one. I now had to give my open on certain topics, analyze articles, provide in an argument telling why I do or don't support a certain topic. I often had difficulties writing down what I had in mind. It's like I wouldn't know how to make everything flow together. After having to write so many essays, writing became my way of coping with life problems. Writing about my problems in my free time made me a better writer, also. Throughout high school, I wrote tons of journals and short stories about things going on in my life. I still wouldn't consider myself a great writer but writing a lot in high school did impact my life in a positive way and improved my
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
I believe that if students are being pushed to their full potential when it comes to writing in high school it can make a huge difference. For example, if students are expected to understand more about their writing and understand where the issues are it can help with critical thinking abilities and prepare people for real life experiences. This way they aren’t learning how to get out of understanding their writing. However, I do understand that writing is a big part of school, but maybe writing concepts should be focused on more as well. Therefore, I conclude that if students worked hard on their writing in high school it would result in them achieving lots in
Writing has never been my strong suit. I’ve always been more of a math girl. I just feel math comes easier to me, because in math there is one solution to a problem. It would be less frustrating for me if there was a clear formula in writing a perfect essay. I feel when assigned an essay I freak out on how to make it seem smart enough and clean it up enough to at least a “B” essay because I know getting that “A” is a stretch. The most frustrating aspects of writing for me are writing the hook, the thesis statement, and being my own worst critic.
I have learned more about English in the fifteen weeks than I did in four years of high school. While this semester was a challenge it certainly made me a better writer. It has also showed me that high school does not do the best job at preparing students for college. The hardest thing for me was sentence structure and making sure my grammar was correct. The face that each paper we wrote was completely different from the last is what made me learn the most.
In this paper, I am to write about my strengths and weaknesses in writing. This is not an easy task for me because I have never considered myself a writer. Reading other peoples thoughts are activities that are more my speed. I simply have trouble putting my thoughts into writing. Since, I do not feel that I have many strengths, let's move on to my weaknesses.
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
Improving my communication skills has been a work in progress starting back in the early years of my life. I have always been my own worse critic. Usually beating myself down through interpersonal communication. Now as an adult I have made great improvements but still have trouble dealing with perception and self-image. Not being raised in an environment of positive reinforcement and poor communication in the workplace I have made it a point to change that trait in my own family and professional environment.