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Personal Narrative: My Growth In Writing
My Growth in Writing Faced with the dilemma of choosing my spring semester classes in college, a challenge faced by almost all college students, I was having a tough time deciding which ones that I should sign up for. Finally after much inner turmoil and debate I decided to take EN100, an english class required to be taken sooner or later by almost, if not all, college students seeking a degree. When I first signed up to take english I have to say that I was most definitely not looking forward to taking the class. Throughout my entire life I have never been a good writer and have never enjoyed taking english classes in general. Although it is very hard for me to find motivation to sit down and write papers for class, especially when I don't have something to write about that interests me, I pushed through and produced some quality papers. …show more content…
Also I believe that my ability to keep a reader interested in my topic has really improved. An example would be from one of my papers would be "Some people might think that picking out the perfect rod and reel wouldn't be that hard and they are all basically the same right? WRONG!" I think that just adding the word WRONG in all capital letters helps to keep the reader entertained and wanting to keep reading (The Perfect). Writing papers that do not interest me are definitely a whole lot harder for me to write and this shows in my writing because it will not flow very well and it looks like I was just throwing bits and pieces together to make it work. Whenever I am able to write about a topic that interests me the whole paper will be an incredibly higher quality than one that does not interest me. In the observing essay that I wrote the context of the paper flows very nicely and there was not much criticism at all because it was a well written paper

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