English classes have never been my favorite classes. However, this has nothing to do with the teacher or professor. I have a hard time brainstorming by myself; I tend to think more whilst with others. The most difficult thing for me is academic writing. While I am at home starting a paper I get anxiety from the instructions and what has to be done, I begin to draw random objects. Though I believe I am a good thinker, I am unable to clearly express myself using words. Generally the lack of me being able to express myself tends to leave gaps or unclear statements from my work. This may be due to my early mixing of languages, creating a conflict in my learning of either Spanish or English.…
When a person begins writing they have many obstacles that they must overcome. Some face issues with creating well-written sentences, writing thesis sentences and others face issues with expanding their vocabulary. It can be difficult to do and takes a great deal of practice and patience. A student, Amanda Grumke, faced these same obstacles as she began writing. At the beginning of her English Composition 1 class, her writing landed at a very low level. After a semester of practice, she has made improvements. Amanda has improved her sentence structures, transitional words, and improved points of view.…
Although I will be upset to correct the sentence faults in my essay which is typed on the computer, I still rely on typing for my formal writing. As typing on the computer automatic points my faults, I can see my faults directly and correct them easily. In the process of constant correction of my essay, I improve my grammar skill and my essays’ preciseness. While I am writing on the paper, I will not consider about my grammar and the logic. However, when I am keyboarding, under the automatically supervision of the computer, I will pay attention to my logic of writing and keep the correct grammar. Gradually, I improve my writing skill by…
When writing an essay there really is more to it than just writing words down and making sure the words is used correctly. When someone is having thoughts they need to write them down and just go from there. At first it may not be perfect, but the writer can always go back and change the errors that need to be fixed. Before reading this I figured it was going to be about bad writing and one should not worry if it is not perfect. This made me realize that it is not about how you write, but what you write about and how to get your thoughts across.…
What I need to do to improve and how I plan to do this: In future, instead of getting paralysis, or worrying that what I am writing about is not valid, I need to use what knowledge I have, back it up with theory and be confident that this is what’s needed. It would be better to get an essay in on time, than delay submitting it due to worry that it isn’t ‘good enough’.…
In my first essay on identity, I felt very comfortable, and I even thought that was easy, except for the thesis, in which I spent a little bit more than two hours. The rest was easy, but I did not understand the assignment and I failed my purpose of writing because I did not have a clear purpose. My second essay on community was better. The thesis statement was clear, I was more specific, but there were not stronger connections between my paragraphs and my thesis. Consequently, my evidence was unstructured and unclear. Then, in my third essay on competition, I did not add transitions in my paragraphs and I did not preserve the logical flow of the story. My fourth essay on Romance, was my favorite, my ideas were clear in my mind but not on my paper; the thesis was long and lacked of clarity to support my assertions. Next, my fourth essay on entertainment, I jumped from one idea to other without sticking to my thesis and my position was not clear. Finally, in my last essay on nature, what I feel was the worst of my essays; I used an assumption very difficult to illustrate and I misunderstood the assumption which leaded to lack of coherence and unity.…
Every person has an inner need to education. Knowledge which we can gain, allows us to know ourselves. Most of us are asking : how to learn more effective ? It is obvious, there are many different ways to develop our study skills. One example is improve verbal communication – the way we act to other people, to illustrate : it tells a lot about us if we can remember names after first introduction. If we are able to do this, people perceive us like a fair conversationalists. Relationship between student and lecturer is also enormous value in understanding word of mouth. Another skill is academic writing. It is significant in a way, if we could leave on a paper exactly the same thing we insinuate in our brains. Our thoughts, opinions - to readers be able to understand what we really want to. Nevertheless, the essential issue is memory. When we do not use it correctly, it cannot help us. In this essay I will tell you how to improve your memory and why is it so considerable ?…
Writing can be a fun stress relief hobby/activity for many people including me. When it comes to writing essay and research papers I try to pick the most interesting topic that will best fit my interests. By having the opportunity of choosing what to write about it will allow me to organize the paper smoothly. My biggest strengths in writing is providing evidence, and giving credentials, and my biggest weakness in writing is writing my conclusion.…
Writing is a key to success for countless students throughout all years of academic learning. Throughout high school, I did not have many problems. However, I had a few struggles which were the same through high school and carried through into my college career. Although I have trouble with writing, I try my best on every paper I write. There are a few reasons why I struggle with writing.…
After some years of taking a lot of English courses and writing classes, I got quite better at it, even better than some students that focused a lot at writing, I could just do essays and essays if I wanted to, but is not my ambition. The writing problems and mind-block problems came along during my senior year of high school. I was supposed to do a lot of essays to be ready for my college applications, so I practiced a lot every day,…
Now after two years of persistent work, I feel more confident about my writing, however I still have some weak points that I need to work on. Firstly, time is my enemy. Actually I consider myself as slow in writing. Moreover I get so nervous and anxious, when I need to write essay in a limited time. The pressure is overwhelming. The fear of not…
Our first essay of Freshman Composition was to write a narrative about something that impacted our lives. I didn’t really know what to expect from this assignment. I knew I could write about my car wreck and give precise details about every little moment. When I started writing, I created a mind map to organize all the details. However, I was worried about my writing skills. I didn’t know what my instructor was expecting from me in this paper. I have never been a strong writer and that really concerned me when it came time to receive a grade. When I turned in the assignment I knew I had a strong detailed and easy to imagine story. However, I knew I was weak with my word choices and grammar. Grammar is the biggest thing that drags me down when I write papers for important classes even though I know my information. Because I knew that before going to write this paper, I looked for resources to help me. I found a website that points out your grammar and spelling mistakes for free. I know you can’t rely on the internet so I would read over it on different days to see if I found something new to correct. This helped in the end because I got a good grade on the paper and did well on grammar.…
Throughout this course, I have learned many things about myself as a writer. The most interesting thing that I learned about myself is that I like writing straight to the point. If a question is present, I like to answer it with little details as possible. I like to include all the important information and continue on with the essay. In the future, I can learn to be more detailed with my work which will have a more effective communication with readers. As for difficulty, I have always had trouble with creating cohesive papers. I tend to write whatever is on my mind when writing my essays, and as I write, sometimes my thoughts can be unorganized. I have learned that after writing my essays, I will go back and switch around my work to organize my thoughts more efficiently. I enjoy writing straight to the…
Writing essays have always been a challenge for me. I am from Ecuador, my native language is Spanish and, I came to the United States three years ago. With the passage of the time, I have learned to talk in English, but learning to write in English has been much harder for me over these three years. However, I have been noticing some progress in my writing in different ways: Idea generation, structuring the essay, and learning to give good supporting evidence have been some of the biggest improvements I have made in my writing in this last semester.…
Before I come to University of Louisville I went to intensive English Institute at University of Knoxville for one semester. I did several writing including arguments, personal essays, and research paper. I also learned how to build sentences and paragraphs. The limitation of the English vocabulary made it hard for me to put my thoughts together and clear about certain subject to present it to my audience. I also face difficulties with grammar, specifically with sentence structure. I am always confused what type of sentence I should use, or how to word and punctuate a sentence to express the idea I want. I struggle in transitions throughout paragraphs and thoughts, and give my papers a smoothness that I would like to. be.…