I have never had much confidence with my writing, but I always felt like I was strong at creating an argument and proving it, or telling a great story, whether it be fact or fiction. But it has been a challenge trying to stay organized in my writing, avoid wordiness, and keep my writing rational and not filled with too much emotion. The ebb and flow of my emotions can really deter me from staying focused on what I am writing. And sometimes that can really take you away from my point. Based on feedback I have received on my writing, I can improve my organization, sentence formation, and being mindful of the audience I am writing for. I tend to get lost in my own words and everything starts to overwhelm me because I cannot find the right wording, …show more content…
I should proofread and make multiple drafts as I go through the writing process to help me focus on communicating my purpose clearly. In the past, I have written research reports, satires, argumentative essays, cause and effect essays, and compare and contrast essays. I have also written stories, both fact, and fiction. My favorite type of writing is fictional stories because I don’t have to site any sources. It is all coming from my imagination, which I could get lost in. I also love it because I can really put a lot of my personality into the characters. Other than the compare and contrast essays I did for an early education class about controversial issues that take place in the education system, nothing about my writing was directed at my program of study. Now that I am writing about things regarding elementary education, I will be very passionate about my writing. I know that I have to stay organized by outlining my thoughts, ideas, and research. I must be clear about my purpose, tone, and audience. I need to make multiple drafts and spend as much time proofing my work as I spend on writing it. I must manage my time and not procrastinate. And lastly, I must set goals and hallmarks within those goals to motivate me through the harder writing assignments. Success in my field of study is crucial to me. The more I strive to
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
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Even though I enjoy writing I am still hesitant to write. It is sometimes hard for me to get started because I am unsure of what to write or how it should be written. I enjoy rules and a correct or wrong way to do things. This does not necessarily occur in writing and I believe this is the reason I am often hesitant to write.
this area but I’m going to improve on it. The process of using multiple drafts has
Which now, in my opinion, is one of my biggest downfalls in writing, I want to (with the help of this class hopefully) be able to get my point across clearly but without feeling like I am rambling or that there are just splashes of words in my writing making it seem to go around in circles because I am not finishing my thoughts strong
My academic writing goals are to enhance my strengths in writing and fix my weaknesses. My goals are divided into several processes of writing: generating ideas, developing the content, revising and proofreading the writing, and referencing properly.
Being given the opportunity to write, during class time and for homework was very special to me. With life’s business and constant expectations, I have never made the time to put my thoughts onto paper. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to. I even have multiple empty journals that I have saved for writing. I think I couldn’t quite fill those journals because when I did I never really felt satisfied with what I wrote. I knew what meaning I wanted to express but I think I didn’t know how to get it into a form that I liked. I think I was missing
At the start of this class, I made a goal to develop my writing skills to better prepare me for other courses for my degree. I knew English 106 would be different compared to any other English or college courses that I have taken. I knew English 106 environment will let me grow in diverse writing dimensions. My long serving years of experience in the military has exposed me to many cultures around the globe. In just seven weeks of the course, I have seen some improvement in my writing. This course has afforded me with several techniques that have made writing not only a little bit easier but also more in-depth resulting in a higher level of academic writing versus my normal military style writing. Now I understand the writing process and
I’m going to be bluntly honest with you, I am not a great writer. There isn’t any point in sugar coating the truth, especially since my writing abilities are being tested just in writing this paper. While it is obvious I am not the author of a bestselling novel that is ok because I am a business major who is pursuing a career in technology. This year has helped me achieve a better understanding of my style of writing and how I can use that for future employment. The focus of this essay is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of my writing abilities and how that is applicable to my major.
At the beginning of the year, writing was not my strength. I never really liked it at all. Give me a math problem or something to do with engineering and I can figure it out, but forming words, sentences, paragraphs, and essays is not my strongest suit. Now, I've been through this process two times already, I look at a question and try not to answer it directly and reword it the best that I can, and I usually write way more than I intended to, because I never know when to stop. If I haven’t made that clear yet, I am at a loss for what else I do.
I am generally pretty organized when it comes to writing. Ahead of writing my actual rough draft, I like to jot down the main idea of each paragraph. Also before I turn in my paper, I will revise, proofread, and double check it. I feel confident in my word choice while I am writing. When writing, I try to pick the most sophisticated words I can. I try to obtain a new vocabulary from or during every piece that I write. I also try to keep my grammar usage at the highest level I can when writing new pieces. I personally believe that I have always had a reasonably strong sentence structure. Usually, when i am writing, my mind moves a million miles an hour, and I can only write so fast. Most of the time, the sentences just transfer right from my mind smack dab to the paper. Then, from there on out, the flow just continues. A perfect example is journals; my journals continually just flow instantly onto the page. So my two biggest strengths in writing are fluency and my word
Reflective Paper As an English major, writing had been one of the strengths and it was challenging. Throw it back in high school, five-paragraph essay was so long from my ideas, but now I able to have greatly opened my mind. My thoughts are more an organized and learned how to write.
I register for this course without knowing what challenges or outcomes would transpire throughout the semester. Nevertheless, I understood that in order to be successful in the class it would take a great deal of determination and motivation. Of course, several of my college courses have involved some type of writing whether it is short summaries, journal keeping, research, or long topic papers. The writing assignments in the past have been fairly easy, however, this class introduces a new spectrum of writing subjects. For instance, we don’t often write letters to faculty members, doctors, or write from a different persons perspective.
English is a subject I have always enjoyed. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation are types of english I am comfortable with. However, when I try to construct an essay on my thoughts or ideas, that 's when I feel like I want to shrivel up and hide. I have always wondered why this is because, I am a very open minded, verbal person who doesn 't have a problem expressing their feelings. Unfortunately, I lack confidence and skill in
My fiction writing when I first came into the program was described many times by people as instructional. This can be linked to what I said earlier about the lack of constructive criticism that I received back during my high school writing days. I went back over several first drafts of my stories and saw what they were talking about. I did a lot of ‘then this happened’ type of sentences and overall it read very choppy and didn’t flow too well. I try to write out the main points of stories and then try to make it flow together. There have been some instances of my first drafts of fiction today still being that way, but it doesn’t appear throughout the entire story. I also had a lot of grammar and punctuation problems, mostly that is a time management issue that I had. I would make so I almost never had the time to proofread my works. That caused me to get chewed to bits more than once in workshop. I have since then made sure that I’ve had time to proofread my