Reflective Essay: My Writing As A Writer

At the end of sophomore year I was stuck between honors English and AP. I knew that I would be able to keep an A all year in honors but I wanted a little bit more of a challenge, so I chose AP. I heard from many people while signing up for classes that junior year was going to knock us on our butts. I never for a second thought that junior year and the classes would be any different than the rest. At the end of yet another year, I have realize that junior year was a constant struggle of turning assignments in on time and creating time for other things, but it was a year that has helped mature me for college. On the journey of maturing for college, writing paper after paper helped to create time management skills while practicing different

When writing The Awakening paper, I struggled with finding things to say to keep the paper flowing in a nice fashion. My growth was found in writing papers that were about books or thesis writings. I began to understand the method and process for them and was able to keep the paper flowing. If I compare my best pieces of writing to the worst the difference isn’t far fetched. The difference between my best and worst writing is how connected it is to the reader. My best writings have figurative language and details creating a picture for the reader. My better writings have more of a connection to the reader than my worst and have a better tone and set of emotions. When I wrote the This I Believe (TIB) paper I found it very easy to write about something I believed in. The TIB was one of my best pieces because I was able to tell a story based on whatever I believed in and it did not enable me to go back through a book and figure out main points of a story or something like that. My next best piece was the Defining Moment paper. Although my paper had grammar errors, it was my favorite. Next for my Defining Moment paper, I wrote about my great grandma. I had anecdotes in my paper and also descriptive language to help the reader step into my shoes while reading. The last, best piece was the Into The Wild (ITW) paper. The ITW paper was when I felt that I had finally gotten the hang of thesis writing. I stuck to the thesis and kept transitions throughout the paper. If I would have to vote for the paper that was the best of the best, it would be my Defining Moment paper. When writing my defining moment paper I wanted to make it a really good paper since it was about my great grandma. The goals I set for this paper was to make it easy to follow and easy to create a picture in the