Personal Narrative: My Writing As A Writer

Throughout the year, my writing has had significant improvements, compared to where I began. First, I began this semester fairly confident in my writing abilities. I thought that I had a strong grasp on writing concepts that include: transition words, literary devices, proper grammar techniques, correct paper writing format. In contrast, I felt that I began the year with a weak vocabulary, which has always been one of my weaker areas, If I were to rank myself on day one of class, without knowing all of the material we were going to cover, I would rank my writing skills an eight out of ten. Now, the class is coming to a close, I would completely change my answer if someone were to ask me that same question. I would rank myself a four out of ten; the only reason it is not lower is because I had a
Although this was one of the smaller and easier assignments, I found it amazing how word choice can portray a variety of different stories. I felt that I was able to build a more detailed image of my Holocaust victim, almost as if were were given the opportunity to retell their story. In contrast, there was one assignment in particular that I had a difficult time completing and turning in a solid final product. I struggled the most with the timed writing prompt for the novella Anthem by Ayn Rand.To explain, I turned in a horrendous paper when our forty-five minutes were complete. While writing this paper, there were so many things that I wanted to say in order to cover every fine detail of my character, but by attempting to cover every fine detail, I lost sight of the assignment at hand. I did not pull out the proper information in order to trace my character correctly throughout the novel. In addition, as time began running down, I began to rush my thoughts and ended my writing with scattered ideas, and careless grammar