The transition between high school to college is sudden, stressful, and intimidating. Although I am not truly in college, I have chosen to enhance my curriculum by taking a college writing class as a senior. Writing has always been one of my strengths since I come from a household of english majors. However, writing has never been a passion of mine and in result I would write just to complete the assignment instead of truly diving deep into the subject. Nevertheless, from the beginning of this course I have been pushed to enhance my writing past the point of completing the assignment. While reading over my many rough drafts, I begin to ask myself how do I take my writing to the next step? Throughout the past nine weeks I have not only learned …show more content…
However, not until this course did I begin to focus on transitions within the individual paragraphs. Mrs. Theisen recommended looking up transition words and incorporating them throughout the body paragraphs. On my first week essay and on my response essay evaluation the comment of “this needs work” is located beside the transitions category (Toombs). However, on my most recent evaluation of my comparative analysis the comment says, “these are developed well” (Toombs). I improved this skill by taking sentences such as “Barry takes gender roles and compares them in order to see the differences between how males and females clean” and putting the transition word “overall” at the beginning so the reader knows I am about to summarize my point. Throughout my compare and contrast essay there are transition words such as, furthermore, similarly, however, variously, for instance, and much more for the purpose of making my essay flow together. Improving my transitions has tremendously improved my writing …show more content…
Improvement comes with every single new draft and correction that is created. Even though this may be very time consuming I have learned that it is also very rewarding. In result, I have learned to manage my time instead of procrastinating since I know the longer I spend on a paper the better it will be. I spend time making every sentence flow by reading my paper aloud or having someone else read my paper to me. I also make sure the evidence I want to use is evenly distributed throughout my own words. Lastly, I will look up transition words to use throughout my paragraphs to further help my sentences flow together. Although I still have many more improvements to make, I have improved my writing exceedingly throughout the first half of this course and will continue to work hard to improve my writing further as I complete the
The first essay given in this course was about our whole composing process. This essay was hard to write about and I remember having several grammar mistakes. Sitting down and writing my process on paper,
I came into this class under the impression that I already wrote well enough and wouldn’t need to improve. However, as I progressed through the semester I learned that there is always room to grow. The first paper I produced was not at the level I was hoping but after I actively decided to improve my writing my papers became much better. Looking back on my work in the class I wonder how much my writing has changed and where I still have room to improve. Without evaluating my work I can’t hope to become any better. Through this class I have grown much as a writer but there is still more I can learn.
Learning to read and write are both considered to be fundamental human skills, that we begin to learn from the day we start school. As time advances, as do our minds, and we are expected to evolve in our reading and writing skills. Finishing high school is a large milestone for the lives of young adults; however, there is so much to learn in order to reach the next big milestone. To be a writer in college can challenge our preconceived thoughts on how we write. Although some skills remain unchanged, high school graduates are faced with overcoming new ways of doing a skill that seems so simple that it is practically innate. The definition of writing skills for college students is much different than high school. However, considering we have come so far it is time to go over the information we already know and challenge ourselves with ideas that we are yet to learn more about.
Regardless of all of these improvements, I know my writing is still far from perfect. My arguments still lack the emotional appeal that, if present, would make my audience consider my arguments a lot faster. My analysis still lack development because often times I just state what happens instead of explaining why. In general, I need to work on controlling my voice and tone throughout an entire essay, which can be fixed if I choose my words more carefully to make sure my diction is uniform. Despite all of this, I am satisfied with myself, I am satisfied with the ways my writing has changed, with the way my writing skills have grown. Why? Because I am learning, and I know that I will continue improving as long as I take chances.
Throughout this semester I have learned many ways of writing through two main essays literacy narrative and comparison and contrast. These two essays have taught me how to correctly fix my comma splices, thesis statements, and capitalization. I have engaged in numerous learning material during this summer class. Many times when I thought it would be hard to work on those three developments I never gave up. I gain more positive feedback from my teacher because he pointed out most of my mistakes I made on both literacy narrative and comparison and contrast essays to help me understand what is it that I need to work on. My development as a writer became stronger.
In my second essay, the analysis essay, the only transitional word I used was furthermore. The lack of transitions caused the flow of the paper to be choppy and somewhat unorganized. My latest essay encompassed many transitional words such as: in other words, instead, however, generally, furthermore, although, and nevertheless. I learned to provide the reader with a better understanding of the text and more enjoyment while reading through the use of better transitions. At the beginning of Composition 1, my points were not always completely developed. The advice my professor gave was to develop “a paragraph on each that goes ‘a mile deep and an inch wide’ rather than ‘an inch deep and a mile wide.” I took that advice to heart. I strive to practice the skills we learned, like the SEE strategy, to properly develop my points and increase the comprehension of the reader. Over the course of the semester, I have grown much as a writer developing better organizational skills and creating a more easily comprehensible fluidity in my
As a strong math, science and engineering student, writing has not come easy to me and by taking this class, I was hoping to become a stronger writer. Throughout the semester, organizing ideas in logical ways has become straight forward thanks to the peer discussions and review I have had. Before this class, I struggled to transition between ideas and discuss each idea in a logical sequence and, unfortunately, my language arts and history grades suffered as a result. By exuding effort and receiving guidance, my hope was to improve my writing and prepare myself for the college writing which would be
Throughout this semester we have had to write many types of essays. Although this is a college English class there is still room for improvement. I made much improvement during the semester of the class. I was able to identify my weaknesses. I learned how to make improvements to the areas I was having problems in. Although each essay we did was different I was able to begin with one essay and throughout the semester turn it into two other essays. I was able to change my style of writing to fit the type of audience I was working with. I will continue to work on my writing and keep improving it.
...t I have improved this area over the course of the semester. I am at the milestone in my writing, however, with hard work and determination I will improve as a writer throughout my college years.
Over the past semester, I have found the most challenging part of this course to simply be the transition from high school composition classes to college. Because writing expectations are so different in college than in high school, even with AP and Dual Enrollment “college level” classes, I first found myself being overwhelmed with the pressure to write the perfect first draft. The pressure came from knowing how much a final draft of a paper contributed to my grade. This left me sitting in front of my computer for hours at a time with thoughts of what I wanted to say racing through my head, but unable to deliver these thoughts into organized, structured sentences. I learned, through writing my persuasive essay, that instead of trying to write the paper start to finish and already in its perfect form, it is easier for me to look at the paper through its different components and focus on them individually, then work to best organize my ideas fluently.
This interview that was conducted between the client and I transition very well as I was informing the client some important information about him continuing to receiving assistance and services when in Florida. The client continue to express his need to leave the state of New Jersey to live his life how he wants. I handled the interview without any problems developing from the client that would be upsetting. The client responded to me in a respectful manner. He accepted the information I had to inform him for him to continue with services when in Florida. The client expressed his need to leaving New Jersey, which is his decision that seems to be beneficial for him. My objective was achieved by providing the client information on what he needs
Writing is an important part of everyone’s life, whether we use it in school, in the workplace, as a hobby or in personal communication. It is important to have this skill because it helps us as writers to express feelings and thoughts to other people in a reasonably permanent form. Formal writing forms like essays, research papers, and articles stimulates critically thinking. This helps the writer to learn how to interpret the world around him/her in a meaningful way. In college, professors motivate students to write in a formal, coherent manner, without losing their own voice in the process. Improving your writing skills is important, in every English class that’s the main teaching point; to help students improve their writing skills. Throughout my college experience I have acknowledge that
Transitioning, my third lesson I want to carry on with me through my medical education and beyond is the importance of making time for other things. Even though the lesson seems similar in theory as my first lesson, making time for other things is a priority that many people fail to hold in practice. I am sure everyone can understand the importance of this lesson as being engaged in other activities helps keep one grounded and not getting lost in one’s profession. However, class discussion has brought up how medicine is a career where workaholics thrive, and it rewards people who sacrifice much in its name. Because of this stance, one must be extra cautious to engage in habits outside of medicine.
I still had the typical grammatical errors and sentence fragments, but there were not as many. I could see my writing skills were improving based on me actually taking the instructors corrections and advice into consideration. When I created my revision memo for this essay, I attempted to finally perfect the common mistakes I had made. Making my sentences a little longer
During this College Composition course, I came across numerous obstacles and educational involvements. Every factor of this course contributed to my overall learning experience. For starters, we often read out of our textbooks, “The Little Seagull Handbook” and “They Say I Say”. These books helped showcase proper writing techniques. In addition, we would have class discussions that everyone would participate in. This opened my eyes to different viewpoints that could influence my writing. I recall one class we had a debate over a topic and everyone had to choose a side to argue. Then when we wrote argument essays, even though they were on a different topic, it helped me view my topic in different ways. Lastly, the most helpful to my writing was peer review. We were told to read our paper out loud to our partner. Although personally I am quiet and dislike reading out loud, I found this very helpful. Instantly, my partner and I could find grammar mistakes that one may not pick up on while reading silently. Then we could also talk about other possible revisions for my paper. For every paper, we would have conferences with the professor. This was effective as well to have a professional giving corrections and ideas. When we would get back our graded rubrics on the assignments we completed, the instructor would leave comments to