When it comes to writing papers, I usually have a difficult time getting started. I sometimes have trouble with certain topics, getting the general concept, and then turning it into a writing that will get my point across. I feel as if I’m not very creative with my words as I should be without sounding so scattered brained and lost. I was a little nervous when entering English 1102, after having such a difficult time in English 1101 online. At first I did feel at ease but once we got to doing research on a particular food and the articles, I did have some challenging moments. In in the end I did pull my works together and I plan on sharing some of my reflections while taking a look back on a couple of my papers.…
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As a writer, there are things that I do well, but there are also things I could improve on to make my writing better. I’m pretty good at getting my point across, and getting people to understand what I’m trying to say. Another thing I’m good at is just writing the paper. Once I get started on a paper it is very easy for me to just keep writing until I’m done with it. However, when doing this I tend to not use the best grammar and be too wordy with my writing. I can definitely fix these issues, and continue to build on the things that I do well.…
Improving my ability to become a great writer and write grade-A college papers is an important goal I hope to achieve by taking this class. My personal goals overall for this class is to gain the necessary elements and principles of writing, in order to further help my skills as a writer so it may lead to future success. As a writer my skills have improved over the years in things like grammar, thesis statements, outlines and critical thinking. Overall my skills in writing have greatly improved over the years, even though some may still require improvement. By completing this class over the summer, I look forward in reducing my weaknesses as a writer writer’s block and etc., in order to become a more significant and effective writer. Improving my writing skills has numerous benefits whether in college or things like vocabulary, keeping track of daily events, or even writing a journal of all the events taking place…
Over the course of the past three months, I have had the distinct pleasure of testing my writing capabilities through the Introduction to College Writing course. I have always had a passion for writing in all forms, but in previous years, the course work in grade-level English classes have been unchallenging of my writing ability. I have been heavily involved in Bonneville High School’s newspaper through journalism since my freshman year. This allowed me to strengthen my writing capability as I was drafting throughout the entire school year. I have never truly had to apply myself until I enrolled in English 101. Since the beginning of the class, I have faced various hardships while writing essays in unfamiliar styles, such as drafting a response to a scholarly article and synthesizing opposing perspectives. I have learned that I am more than capable in writing in different styles and that all of my work will be quality content regardless of the topic. I overcame the obstacles that have challenged me, and my essays exhibit that I am fully prepared to continue my work in English 102.…
The key topic I have learned that plays a huge role in the writing process is confidence. When writers are confident about their piece and they really love the way it has turned out, then it shows through the entire paper. I always tell my dance students that if they show the audience how much they love dancing, then more people will want to watch them. And I think the same goes for…
Quick Access Concise, Chapter 1: Understanding College and Other Writing Situations and Chapter 7a & c: Strategies for Writing Typical Kinds of College Papers…
As a junior in high school, I have done multiple writing assignments so far throughout my education. I have written a short story, persuasive paper, process paper, poems, essays, journal entries, ........?? To write a well written paper, you need to clear your mind and let the thoughts come to you. I go to a room where it’s quiet so I don’t get distracted and let my mind think. In elementary and middle school, I wrote easy papers or small essays.…
Writing, something that has never befriended me, will always be an obstacle in my life. For me, it’s difficult to just sit down at a table and write something interesting and creative. I try to do so every time I am assigned a essay, and sometimes it turns out to be successful, but most of the time it is unsuccessful. Every time I am given a written assignment, I go through the same routine: I sit at the table and stare at my computer with my fingers on the keyboard. I have noticed that I come up with a lot of ideas, but I focus mainly on how to structure them while writing. In three articles written by Anna Lomott, Marie Foley and Donald M. Murray, they all discuss different strategies on how to draft, structure and revise an essay. They all have taught me a better way on how to make my writing strategy more successful in college than it was before.…
The editing process is usually more straightforward, and I’m sure many of you would agree that getting those first few words on paper (or screen) is one of the hardest parts of writing. Procrastination has also been my major drawback in this semester. However, your proper guidance and suggestions have helped me control and limit my level of procrastination. In the beginning of the semester I had only basic knowledge of essay, but after this class I came to know how can writing be a precious tool to student with proper citation skills, grammatical skills, sentence structure as well as proper use of diction and…
I like being able to come up with something in my mind and be able to write it down. I also like research papers, especially when it is a topic that interests me. The most challenging papers for me are opinion papers. I don’t like writing them. I like writing about facts and doing research, but I don’t really like writing down my opinion.…
I do not like writing academic papers. It is very time consuming and some require doing a lot of research on the topic. I don’t like write papers because the subject is not of interest to me sometimes. I also find it a little difficult to do a thesis statement.…
I am able to create text that flows fairly well and am able to address the prompt in creative and interesting ways. However, I have always taken the easy route when it comes to writing by basically skipping the entire writing process and only writing a single draft for each paper, and turning it in. When I was an honors English student in high school I was able to get away with writing out a single draft the night before an assignment was due and turning it in, often without proofreading it first, because the writing expectations for freshmen and sophomores are not very high. When I became an AP English Language and Composition student I quickly learned that my writing method, or lack thereof, was not going to earn me easy A’s with my teachers, so I began to have my peers read over my drafts and check for errors. Suffice to say, there were many errors present in my writing. I tend to struggle with punctuation mistakes- I am still confused about the proper way to use colons, semicolons and dashes- and I am guilt of using quite a few run-on sentences on my…
Thinking of my previous learning experience, writing remained the weak spot of my English skills. I could still remember the time we were asked to write an article about “My hometown” in the first LANG001 class. I was too panicked to think of anything to write and it turned out even worse when I looked around and saw all my classmates were writing smoothly. In this semester, I will make effort to improve my organization of paragraphs, such as coherent and cohesive paragraphs and clear controlling ideas.…
In conclusion, there are many problems when writing academic essays and articles need to be considered. Practising more and more may help to improve writing skills and overcome those…