I am bad at writing and you would know the best. You graded a few of my essays and my poetry. I can't imagine the pain of that, but i know the pain of writing them. I often sway to topics like this in writing because if i do something bad, or mess up it helps prove my point. Like my poem. My lyric poem was about something I was very passionate about at the time. It was about how much I hate poems if you have forgot, which I don't expect you to remember. I still don't like poetry or mine at least. Some other people in our grade I thought that they were good, and I actually enjoyed reading them. That is the most about liking poetry you'll ever get out of me, congratulations you got more than any other teacher. Barely any of this was about my flaws at writing, so does that make this a flaw? Can you count me off on this? I don't believe so. Good luck grading this. Of my many other flaws in writing commas are/is (this is another one we just learned about that and I still don't know which it is) a big, one. I don't know where to put them. As well as grammar I'm terribly not good at. In other words I can't English. This is why grammarly is my best friend (Can we use grammarly). And poetry kinda messed me up cause now i'm trying to put rhythm in all my writing and it just doesn't turn out right nor good at all. …show more content…
Just put a little bit of time in, here and there. Maybe get myself to read a book as well. Possibly write things just for fun. Too bad I won't do any of this. I won't take my own advice because why do that when I could be napping or playing Call of Duty WWII. I have enjoyed reading two whole books in my life. Old Yeller (I recently watched the movie, it was very good) and bet you won't expect this Green Eggs and Ham (Nope you didn't expect that). That's probably why i'm bad at reading my favorite books are made for kindergarteners and like 6th
In the course of this semester of writing, I grew more than I ever had in my ability to write well. I remember on the first day of class several other students were talking about how hard this writing professor is. I was a bit worried and even thought about switching to an easy professor for a guarantee A so I can get a 4.0. Now, I am grateful that I chose to decide to work hard for a 4.0 instead. Even though I may not get it, I am still glad I stayed because for once, I learned and became a better writer. I can see that my knowledge of conventions definitely improved from last semester. I really loved the feedback for my assignments, since it allows me to realize what I need to improve on and what I should keep doing. Unlike the previous semester, the writing professor only told us our grade on the very first assignment after two months. There were no feedback on how I could improve either, so I had no idea if I was having trouble with anything. Prior to this course, I always had trouble writing sentences and organizing them in such a way that flows and delivers my idea well. I also rarely outline or plan out how I will write a paper too, and even when I did, it was very vague. Out of the five learning outcomes, I grew the most in rhetoric knowledge and writing process from the reading responses and 4 assignment.
Throughout the semester i only learned few new things but i did improve and solidify my skill of writing. Before my first year of college my skills have always undermined by other high school english teachers and with that came disappointing grades. I am writing this paper as a reflection of the semester and the progress i have made as a writer. I now understand many things that my high school teachers have done a poor job demonstrating and i am grateful that i decided to take my own route in my education instead of their syllabus. I entered the semester with anxiety that i would perform as i did before but i clearly outdid my own expectations by receiving top grades on my essays.
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
‘I am going to fail’ was the very first thought that crept into my mind on that very first day of class. Before I stepped into the classroom on the first day, I felt pretty good about my writing. I had done previously well in English, and didn’t think this class would be much of a challenge. This all changed on the first day of school, when my professor talked about the level of reading and writing expected for this class. I remember thinking ‘I don’t read, why couldn’t I have been born someone who likes to read?!’ Since this moment on the very first day of class, I have grown immensely through hard work. In this essay, I will explain what I have learned over the course of this class about myself, and about writing.
As a student, I feel that I have many writing weaknesses. I know that on my own, and because teachers have told me so. Some of the complications I face with writing is not using enough body paragraphs, forgetting a thesis statement, lack of word choice, punctuation errors, and etc. I am unaware at times of my mistakes, but I always try to correct them.
There were variety of types of writing that we used throughout this year. For example, we wrote many short answer responses, where we write about a paragraph long response in ACE (Answer, Cite evidence, Explanation) format. Also, we wrote our versions of some scenes from the drama play book called “Our Town”. My favorite writing we did this year was the short answer response. This is because didn’t take too much time to write, and it was overall the easiest to do. I’m not too good at writing poems, and for some reason, I don’t really like writing them. Thus, that is my least favorite type of writing we did this year.
This class has been significantly more difficult than any other English class I have taken all throughout high school. This semester, I have been introduced to different styles of writing that I have never been exposed to before. This class has been stressful, but also fun. With using all of the resources I have been given throughout the semester, I have been able to do my best to further my writing abilities and hopefully only continue to grow them as I finish my later years in college. Throughout this essay, I will discuss my failures, my successes, my overall performance in the class, and my skill development skills.
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class, I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work to see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded.
At this point in time, one of my favorite things to do is to read. It’s good for passing time, and it’s even better for learning things in general. I am an avid reader and start a new book after I finish one. The way I feel about reading now wasn’t always the case. When I was in primary school, reading always felt like such a burden.
Reading was never something I fussed about growing up. As a child, I loved genres of realistic fiction. I was hooked on The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley, Goosebumps, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Judy Moody, and especially, Zoobooks and Highlights magazines. My mother was always ready to help build my reading and writing skills. She took me to the library constantly to feed my passion for books and knowledge. I loved exploring the shelfs, organizing the books, and filling up my library cart. I tried keeping a diary in elementary school to keep track of my outings with my parents and grandparents to museums, zoos, movies, and libraries. This flash of writing enthusiasm was spun from books I read in the 4th and 5th grade that were
The mistakes I am facing today are comma splices, subject-verb agreements, and time.
My main problem with writing is punctuation. This is emphasized by the corrections made on the first paper I wrote. The majority of the problems focused around fragments and comma...
When I do find some time to myself I divide it between reading and spending time with friends and family. Being a voracious reader I complete numerous novels a week. While reading I can immerse myself into the characters life distracting myself from what is going on in my life. Reading is the perfect therapy, especially this year dealing with the stress of my health issues. Since college is approaching quickly spending time with my close friends and family is vital before leaving for school.
I get too bored when it comes to reading. I hate reading when it’s not for fun, and I hate reading books I didn’t choose to read. The whole time our class read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (ATD), I couldn’t enjoy it since I really don’t like books the whole class is assigned to read. If I’m reading a book against my will, it’s not gonna be something I enjoy, especially when it comes to whole class books; those books are just so hard to enjoy. Just let me read, a book I picked, in my own free time, alone, and then I can reading.
In high school I didn’t consider myself that great of a writer, but I always seemed get decent grades on what I wrote. I mean I might just not be giving myself enough credit on my writing. I’m not really sure; I guess I don’t really think that I do anything that greatly. A lot of people did want my help writing their papers in high school, so I guess I couldn’t have been but such a horrible writer. In high school, the most important things to me weren’t the people, the experiences, the parties or any of that; I prided myself on my work. Now that isn’t all bad because it got me the grades to get into my dream school, but I think that I lost of what could have been a great four years of my life. I’m glad that I’ve had that experience though because now I realize you need balance. You can have fun and do you school work too, you just have to stay organized and on top of things. I’m really hoping that this will be a great five years for me, and that my writing will improve over the course of this semester.