My Writing Class Reflection

Coming into this class I was aware that my writing abilities were not the most resilient. I attempted this class my senior year in high school, but due to lack of motivation and laziness I received a D for the class. Seeing that I needed to retake a class that was not particularly my most successful topic pushed me to achieve success. I established a goal, to pass the class with at least a B, and I am only one more paper away from doing that. I’m writing this letter to tell you how my writing has changed for the better over the semester, and the obstacles that I had to overcome. The first day of class was comparable to a culture shock in regards to writing. All throughout school I have been writing papers based on the 5 paragraph layout until
The research paper proved to be the most challenging for me. I went through my sources, wrote them down on paper, and eventually decided where I stood on the topic at hand. As I started to freely write, my opinion on the subject changed and before too long my rough draft looked as if two different people wrote a separate half of the paper. The introduction did not add up with what I was trying to argue, and my conclusion brought up my controlling idea for the first time. My narrative paper also provided me challenges. I was writing what I thought to be a well written, unique aspect on a subject. What I didn’t realize was that my passion for the subject made me include useless events in regards to the paper. I also provided a personal story, but in the middle of the paper, which felt out of place. What I did for both of these papers was create a separate word document, copy and paste the paragraphs all mixed up and out of order, then put them in an order than made the logical sense. After that I would add my transitions and improve my introduction and conclusion in order to accurately draw the reader in, and leave them with something to care about after the paper is over. Making it all tie together was the key struggle which I eventually achieved. My research paper was without a doubt the most difficult paper I have ever written, but at the end of the day I finished the paper and received a grade that I am proud