My Writing Challenges

Writing essays have always been a challenge for me. I am from Ecuador, my native language is Spanish and, I came to the United States three years ago. With the passage of the time, I have learned to talk in English, but learning to write in English has been much harder for me over these three years. However, I have been noticing some progress in my writing in different ways: Idea generation, structuring the essay, and learning to give good supporting evidence have been some of the biggest improvements I have made in my writing in this last semester. A good essay needs good ideas. By idea generation, I mean that I have learned to think fast and get ideas quickly for my essays. One thing that has really been a challenge for me at the start of the semester in English 5, was getting material and ideas to use in my essay. While doing my essays, I have to see that typing freely works to generate ideas and brainstorming helps to get my ideas clarified. In addition, I also have noticed that making a rough draft has helped me to develop my ideas and also organize them. Now I always start my essays with ideas generation and a rough draft.
When writing an essay, it is important to have a clear and logical structure for the reader to follow; I learned that it is important to include a good introduction
English 15 class also improved my writing skills because it taught me to explain everything. Everything needs some sort of explanation or it can be taken in many different ways. In addition, I realized that I needed to be very specific and descriptive when writing. I learned that instead of just saying a car I need to say a black BMW. Therefore, writing in and out of class every week has improved my skills. In addition, I have found that using the librarian is very important to make research topics. They have helped me to find pages where I could find good