Reflective Essay: The Development Of My Writing Skills

Development of My Writing Skills I decided I was going to take English 1113 my junior year. I was worried that I was going to struggle writing college level papers because writing has never been my strong suit. I soon realized that it would not be as difficult because my professor gave me feedback on my rough drafts, so I would know what to improve in my paper. I knew before I even started writing my first paper that I would struggle with many aspects of writing, but I realized very quickly that I would struggle with common usage the most. I started off English 1113 struggling with comma errors throughout my papers, but through the course I have become more efficient with my writing, as well as improving my comma usage.

I did not know how bad I was at editing my papers until I received feedback on my first paper, “The Effects of GMOs on Health.” I realized that I was not very efficient with my coma usage, because I had comma splices and run-on sentences throughout my paper. “Elementary” and “sloppy” were the terms used to describe my poor comma errors. I stated in my introduction essay that I had come custom to just plugging in a comma every time I thought there was a pause in the sentence. Therefore, Mrs. Fleming gave our class multiple work sheets to practice our

When I was editing the paper, I used all the knowledge I had gained during this semester to edit most of the errors. I received my feedback on “The Traumatic Truth,” and I think I made more comma errors on this paper than I have made on any of my other papers. I am going to be honest and say that I was probably in a rush and ready to get this paper out of the way, since it was my last paper. I think if I had not been in such a hurry to finish this paper I would have not had many errors in this paper at all, so therefore I learned that even if it is the last paper, I should not be in such a rush to finish