Reflective Essay: My Growth As A Writer

Writing, where do I begin...? Throughout my educational career I have always absolutely hated writing. Why do I need to research and write about the use of fossil fuels? Why do I need to write a reflection on this novel? It never made sense to me, and I never felt myself progressing as a writer. Although I was required to do these things this semester in English, I so much more to do and in return, I feel that I have grown immensely as a writer. Through IWA’s, Freewrite’s, and other writing techniques taught by Professor Pretorius, my writing skills have grown tenfold versus what they previously were. I feel that this class has greatly prepared me for the future writings I may have to do in the rest of my educational career. One thing that has helped me grow as a writer this year was the use of freewriting. I had never heard of this technique before this class but I’m sure glad I finally learned about it. Freewriting helps so much in allowing me to get my ideas out of my head and down on the paper. In addition, it solved my problem of sitting at my computer with a blank word document open not knowing what to write. I now have a general idea beforehand, and am able
For that project, we were asked to find a common problem within our major or the correlating career field. In return, we had to come up with a unique solution to said problem. This project helped me by allowing me to explore my career field/major and really see the potential problems. It also helped with my interviewing skills as I had to interview two people for the paper, and many others in my statistical analysis. Also with this paper, I was faced with the challenge of writing a paper of this length. Although miniscule compared to other college papers, this was by far the longest one I have ever had to write. In saying that, the use of freewriting and the skills I obtained from IWA’s helped me layout the paper