English has always been one of my favorite subjects along with writing. At a
young age I remember always writing childish stories, and comic books. In second grade
I even won a writers competition. Writing has always been a part of my life. I keep a
journal to write important events happening in my life and I like to write poems as well.
However, during my high school years writing essays became more complex. For some
reason I couldn’t seem to fully understand the different techniques you need in order to
write a successful essay. English 49 being my first English college class was at
first a bit overwhelming. I felt somewhat intimidated. I thought I didn’t had thev enough
knowledge to write a good essay, because of the fact that I didn’t felt like I learned
much in high school on how to incorporate good essay writing skills. On the other hand,
being in this English class has helped me to become more confident in writing.
Throughout the semester I learned how to improve my writing skills by prewriting,
writing a thesis statement, and knowing the development in a essay.
Utilizing several methods of prewriting in my essays has helped me
performed better in my English class. In high school I never did any prewriting so it was
difficult to write an essay because I didn’t know where I was going with it.
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I didn’t have a sense of direction. Furthermore, now that I’m in college and have taken a
English class I have learned there’s different types of prewriting’s that can give me an
idea of how to write an essay with organization, main points and supportive ideas. For
instance, prewriting such as an outline and clustering have been to my beneficial because
they helped me out in organizing my ideas and thoughts. Making an outline helped me
gather the points I wanted to make in my essays. It also helped me put in order the
supporting ideas.