How To Write A Reflective Essay About My Writing Process

Thinking back at myself as a writer at the beginning of the course and seeing where I am now, as far as how well I write and how my writing process has improved, has greatly improved. Writing used to be something I disliked doing with a passion. I had always had trouble getting my thoughts on to the page, and making what it is that I wanted to say sound good and flow well. I used to consider myself someone who would rather do a presentation on something rather than write an essay about it; but now, I would say I would be happy to do either.

I used to think that, when writing an essay, the first thing that had to be done was the intro. I thought that it had to be written in order, and trying to write an essay in that order would always leave me stuck at the beginning. Then I would take forever because I thought that if I didn’t start at the beginning then I couldn’t continue to the next paragraph. This was one of the reasons I would dread writing any kind of essay, no matter if I was interested in the
I would always get so caught up in all of this information that I found, that made me feel as if I were drowning in it with no place to put it. I was absolutely overwhelmed. The way I would write research papers used to be so disorganized that sometimes I did not even make an outline; I would just write as I go with nothing to guide me throughout. This would always lead to me being stressed, taking hours to complete the essay, or both. High school taught me a lot about the basics of writing and how to write a decent essay, but college has taught me how to write a great essay in a way that is organized and will keep stress levels down. I learned how truly important it is to write a detailed outline and how it can save hours worth of time in the long run, and I learned to use that outline to organize my research in a way that makes writing the actual essay extremely