Informal

Although I am not where I would like to be, my relationship with writing is much better than it previously was. What I like about writing is that it is a way to express yourself. Areas of writing that I do not particularly like include: forming a thesis statement, making my introduction captivating or something of interest that will reel the reader(s) in, and connecting my body paragraphs together. I am not particularly fond of writing essays in general. What I find easy about writing is that usually once I get started and have some ideas jotted down, the flow of my essay goes well. The body paragraphs and the conclusion are usually pretty easy for me as well. On the other hand, the things I find difficult include: forming a strong, well-written thesis statement, forming a good/strong introduction, not being too repetitive/too comparable in my sentences, brainstorming ideas for the basis of the essay, finding better vocabulary to use, and keeping my essay in the word limit provided. Sometimes I believe I might be a little too “wordy”. In this Comp 110 class, what is working for me is: that we can submit three copies of our essay(s) before they are graded and that you help us to improve our essays, and also that clear directions on what you want are given. The fact that we always go over our essay material in class, that you answer all of our questions and that you actually encourage us to have questions prepared for class previous to our essay(s) being due greatly helps me in this class as well. All of these things listed help me to improve my writings/essays. There is nothing in particular that does not work for me in this Composition class. My worst experience with writing was in my previous Comp 110 class. In that class, nobody got an A. My teacher was an Indian woman who was hard to understand and on top of that, gave unclear directions. She was extremely vague in general and our questions for her were more so dismissed, rather than encouraged. We could