My Writing: My Experience As A Writer
Ever since I was young, writing has never been my strong point. I never divulged into the writing process as much as I have completed for this particular course called writing 101. The reason being, English was never my first spoken or written language. I am comfortable with speaking the English language however writing correctly and adhering to the writing process has always been a challenge for me. For once, I never had a clear idea of structuring an essay to reach a valid point. Without structural organization, all the essays I have written so far lacked the impact that good, strong essays usually show. However within this course period, I have obtained many skills that divulges into writing a good, strong essay or any writing pieces for that matter. I began this course with very basic writing skills; now I have acquired intermediate learning skills through using pre-writing, good grammar knowledge and transition words.
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Within the first couple weeks of the course, I was introduced to the idea of prewriting.
Prewriting is a rough draft for writers to jot down a working thesis statement along with some topic sentences to support the overall idea of a paper. I would usually brainstorm for a thesis statement and start writing right away. As a result, I would always fumble around for topic sentence ideas until the due date was slowly dawning on me. Looking at my preparation of the 1st personal narrative essay compared to the third research-supported caused essay, I was much more prepared and had a clearer idea on my third essay. I used the prewriting skills I had learned earlier in the course, which helped me a lot. To gain a clear understanding of the essay idea, I wrote down the thesis and the topic sentences along with qualified sources. As a result, I have bettered my preparation skills when writing an essay or an organized
thought.
The second skill I developed in this course was grammar. English being my second language, I always disliked and avoided learning grammar, whenever possible. However in this course, I was taught grammar lessons each consecutive week, which included run-on sentences, fragments, using passive and active voice and many others. When a person is brainstorming, the ideas that pop-up randomly can be considered run-on sentences. The reason is because, the ideas just ramble on without any clear structural balance or support. This particular example is the issue I have had when committing grammatical errors. I would incorporate my pre-written brainstorming ideas as I wrote my final and conclusive essay. Leading me to commit run-on sentences because I would try to incorporate all the ideas that were present in front of me. I would achieve an unconscious minded run-on sentence by simply adding “and” in the middle of two different sentences. Another mistake I agree to commonly commit is having sentence fragments. For example, on my first personal narrative essay called “Meeting and Angel”, I wrote a statement that stated “Maybe even much grater love, thanks to Ms. Betty”. This sentence is a fragment because it is not a complete sentence without a subject. The reader cannot digest from this sentence why because of Ms. Betty, the unknown subject feels much more greater love. Lastly, I had never known the idea of passive and active voice, even though every human uses it in his or her daily speeches. In week eight of the writing class, I learned how to use active and passive voice during a speech or sentence. Active voice is used when the subject is doing the action and passive voice is used when the action is being acted upon the subject. The use of this particular grammar skill helped better my writing process by deciding the better form in a situation. It makes sense much better to the reader, when the writer writes it out more clearly than the thought is in their head. Out of all the grammar skills I learned, the lesson of sentence fragments was the most helpful. Sentence fragments are one of the biggest crimes I commit when completing an essay or any writing piece. In totality, all the grammar skills I have learned is helpful and will be helpful in my future endeavors of the writing process.
Lastly, the learning process of transition words in an essay helped achieve my essays to become unified and coherent. The examples for good transition words include after all, finally, first of all, secondly, next, etc. Before the beginning of the course, I would not use consistent and strong transition words that helped guide the readers to better understand my essay. I only looked at the written paper from my perspective and failed to understand the essay form a third point of view. If it made sense to me, the writer, it was just good enough for me. Now I realize that, it is not the truth of the matter. If the readers cannot comprehend the topic of which the author is trying to convey, then the point of the article or an essay is pointless. As I accepted my wrongdoings, I have adhered to better writing capabilities. Currently I am persuaded to incorporate good transition words to better guide my readers.
In conclusion, by taking the course writing 101 I have learned to better my skills for prewriting, usages of grammar and the usage of good transition words in any form of writing. The skills I have learnt will indefinitely help serve me in my future courses or any writing piece that I need to complete. It will also as a whole improve my speech ability by using correct grammatical words. Although I have bettered my skills in these particular areas, there is always so much to learn. I will take forth the lessons I have learnt and better myself in the future.
Within the first couple weeks of the course, I was introduced to the idea of prewriting.
Prewriting is a rough draft for writers to jot down a working thesis statement along with some topic sentences to support the overall idea of a paper. I would usually brainstorm for a thesis statement and start writing right away. As a result, I would always fumble around for topic sentence ideas until the due date was slowly dawning on me. Looking at my preparation of the 1st personal narrative essay compared to the third research-supported caused essay, I was much more prepared and had a clearer idea on my third essay. I used the prewriting skills I had learned earlier in the course, which helped me a lot. To gain a clear understanding of the essay idea, I wrote down the thesis and the topic sentences along with qualified sources. As a result, I have bettered my preparation skills when writing an essay or an organized
thought.
The second skill I developed in this course was grammar. English being my second language, I always disliked and avoided learning grammar, whenever possible. However in this course, I was taught grammar lessons each consecutive week, which included run-on sentences, fragments, using passive and active voice and many others. When a person is brainstorming, the ideas that pop-up randomly can be considered run-on sentences. The reason is because, the ideas just ramble on without any clear structural balance or support. This particular example is the issue I have had when committing grammatical errors. I would incorporate my pre-written brainstorming ideas as I wrote my final and conclusive essay. Leading me to commit run-on sentences because I would try to incorporate all the ideas that were present in front of me. I would achieve an unconscious minded run-on sentence by simply adding “and” in the middle of two different sentences. Another mistake I agree to commonly commit is having sentence fragments. For example, on my first personal narrative essay called “Meeting and Angel”, I wrote a statement that stated “Maybe even much grater love, thanks to Ms. Betty”. This sentence is a fragment because it is not a complete sentence without a subject. The reader cannot digest from this sentence why because of Ms. Betty, the unknown subject feels much more greater love. Lastly, I had never known the idea of passive and active voice, even though every human uses it in his or her daily speeches. In week eight of the writing class, I learned how to use active and passive voice during a speech or sentence. Active voice is used when the subject is doing the action and passive voice is used when the action is being acted upon the subject. The use of this particular grammar skill helped better my writing process by deciding the better form in a situation. It makes sense much better to the reader, when the writer writes it out more clearly than the thought is in their head. Out of all the grammar skills I learned, the lesson of sentence fragments was the most helpful. Sentence fragments are one of the biggest crimes I commit when completing an essay or any writing piece. In totality, all the grammar skills I have learned is helpful and will be helpful in my future endeavors of the writing process.
Lastly, the learning process of transition words in an essay helped achieve my essays to become unified and coherent. The examples for good transition words include after all, finally, first of all, secondly, next, etc. Before the beginning of the course, I would not use consistent and strong transition words that helped guide the readers to better understand my essay. I only looked at the written paper from my perspective and failed to understand the essay form a third point of view. If it made sense to me, the writer, it was just good enough for me. Now I realize that, it is not the truth of the matter. If the readers cannot comprehend the topic of which the author is trying to convey, then the point of the article or an essay is pointless. As I accepted my wrongdoings, I have adhered to better writing capabilities. Currently I am persuaded to incorporate good transition words to better guide my readers.
In conclusion, by taking the course writing 101 I have learned to better my skills for prewriting, usages of grammar and the usage of good transition words in any form of writing. The skills I have learnt will indefinitely help serve me in my future courses or any writing piece that I need to complete. It will also as a whole improve my speech ability by using correct grammatical words. Although I have bettered my skills in these particular areas, there is always so much to learn. I will take forth the lessons I have learnt and better myself in the future.