My Writing Skills

During this composition course I have learned many things, and I have overcome many bad habits. Writing use to be one of my least favorite things to do because of how bad I was at it. Now that I have learned new tips and tricks about writing I find it more enjoyable. During this course my writing habits have changed, some of my weaknesses in writing turned into my strengths, my overall paper writing skills have improved, and many more things. Another thing that was very beneficial to my writing was the different writing prompts that we did. These prompts would all make you use different writing skills and techniques. Overall this course was a big help towards my writing skills. The first thing I would like to comment on is myself as a writer.
Each project involved many different writing skills and techniques. The first project that we did involved writing about something pertaining to your personal life. This project mainly just required good brain storming and organization skills to put the paper together. I also liked this project because it did not involve any research and it was all about yourself so you could write it in basically any way that you pleased. The second writing project that we did was responding to an op-ed. This was my favorite project out of all of them. In this project you had to respond to an another authors writing with counter arguments. This project required critical thinking skills, organizational skills, and knowledge about the topic. This was one of my favorite project because I got to argue a topic that I had a lot of knowledge about. The third project was a research project. This project you had to come up with a question and research your question. This project also involved critical thinking skills, organizational skills, and research skills. All of these projects were very helpful and shaped me into a better writer. As said before one thing that comes along with writing is revision. One type of revision that I was never a big fan of was peer revision. I always use to be nervous when I would have to have my paper revised by another person because my writing was so poor. After doing it many times during this class
I have never been a very strong writer and after taking this class I feel very confident with my writing. All of the exercises that we did in class, the writing projects, and everything else that we did has made me into a very confident writer. It not only has helped with this class but with all my other classes too. I have typed a paper in at least three of my other classes and I have used the skills that I learned from this class to help me. This class will help me throughout my college career and is what started to help me grow as a writer. I would defiantly recommend taking this class to anyone that needs