Reflective Essay: My First MLA Style

My life has been filled with writing. I have countless experiences as a writer and with writing. Every paper I have written has taught me something new. Two of my writing assignments stand out to me. My writing history was greatly influenced by my first MLA style paper and my first high school paper.
I wrote my first MLA style paper in eighth grade. It consisted of numerous firsts and lessons. The whole grade had to do it, and it counted in three of our classes. It was a history paper where we chose our topic from a list. I ended up with the burning of Washington, DC; after my first choice was taken. We had a month to write this paper, so I procrastinated. It was a five-page paper and it required a thesis statement. This was my first time writing a thesis statement. It took me hours to write one. Three teachers were supposed to be helping us, although that is not how it worked out. 300 eighth graders writing history papers for the first time with little to no guidance. It was a mess. The hardest part was trying to
I did not write a real paper in high school until the tenth grade. We had to write about World War I in our World History class. Our World History teacher was our hardest teacher, so I spent weeks on this paper. We had to turn in a rough draft, where we got points for turning it in. However, she gave typed ones extra points. I did not know that they got extra points for typing theirs. This led to me getting nervous and rewriting my whole paper in three days. About a week later I learned the reasoning behind her extra points. That paper taught me different ways to start my paragraphs such as, a quote. We also had to argue, in that paper, the cause of World War I. That was a learning curve. I had to learn how to structure an argumentative paper. A paper on World War I was challenging, however I did it