Reflective Essay On My Writing Skills

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Throughout the semester, it is obvious that my writing skills and quality have changed and adapted toward college classes. I found myself using stronger word choice in both essays one and two to explicitly describe the information vividly so the audience could get a better understanding of my reading and writing skills, and how to achieve the keys of success. I also found myself paying extra attention toward the development and content of my writing, making sure my ideas stay on task and support the thesis, especially for the second essay about happiness and success, and constantly looking over for grammatical and spelling issues to make my writings more genuine. With this being my first semester of college, it is necessary for me to adapt to how college professors prefer essays, journal entries and free writing to be structured to their coursework, and English 101 has been nothing but beneficial toward my development of a writer.
When the first essay was assigned, it really helped myself discover where I truly am on a spectrum as a reader and a writer. I …show more content…

With an essay topic so controversial and opinionated about happiness and success, it was a struggle to structure paragraphs about the process to becoming happy or successful, and to add factual information and organize my main points into an argument claiming what success and happiness mean to any individual. It took a significant amount of time to try to perfect this essay to the best of my ability, but this essay made me learn more about the keys of success and happiness as well as get a better perception on how to structure a research essay. This essay was also a challenge as to citing my sources correctly in MLA citations in my work cited page. I presume that this will get better with time throughout this course and hopefully shouldn’t be an issue by the time the final portfolio is

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