This class has improved my writing skills. Before taking English Writing 109, I struggled with revising my writing. I had a challenging time revising my work, because I did not know when to remove or rephrase sentences within my papers. However, I during this class I have learned to revise my writing. I can make necessary changes to my writing. For instance, rephrasing or removing evidence that do not support my topic sentence. In addition, when I am given feedback on my papers, I can make the proper changes. For instance, when you suggested I add more specific details about the authors I used for my Annotated Bibliography. I made the proper changes by giving details about the author’s credentials. For instance, I included where the author …show more content…
The first step was finding articles that related to my topic. The next step was reading all articles that I found. The next step was writing summaries for the articles that pertained to my topic. Next, I cited my sources in APA format and placed the references above the appropriate paragraphs. Lastly, I added a title and my name to the bibliography. However, when I was working on my research paper I did not do things in the same order. When I was writing my research paper, I wrote the body paragraphs first. Then, I wrote my introduction and conclusion. Writing the introduction last helped me write a focus thesis statement. The third thing I did when writing my research paper was create a reference page. lastly, I created a title page that included my name, professor, and the …show more content…
In this class, I learned how to revise and edit my work based on feedback that was given to me by my instructor and peers. When I was revising my annotated bibliography and research paper I made changes that were suggested by you and my peers. For instance, during a peer feedback activity a classmate advised me to focus on a certain age group for my research paper. I took my classmate advise, so when I was revising my paper I decided to focus on adolescents who are fourteen to eighteen. In addition, while editing and revising my research paper, I took your advice and presented additional information and removed sentences that were repetitive. Additionally, I can critically read and interpret various text, genres, and contexts while noticing the purpose, format, evidence, tone conventions, and organization. For instance, when I was working on my article annotation assignment I could find the purpose of the article and conventions within the article while reading critically. In addition, my Annotated Bibliography shows I can read critically while noticing the format, tone purpose, and organization within the article. Furthermore, I can engage in critical reading, researching, writing, and thinking processes to compose both formal and informal texts that respond critically to disciplinary knowledge-making contexts and that signal the writer’s credible participation in disciplinary conversations. For instance, my annotated bibliography
During the English 160 course, I improved my approach to writing and developing papers, build on critical reading and grammatical skills, and exceed my previous abilities to write a strong paper as I took into consideration different genre based audiences. If my improvement does not exemplify my determination to learn and prepare for English 161, then I politely request you review my portfolio.
When demonstrating my growth as a writer across several pieces, there are four main learning outcomes in which I have focused on. These include writing, reading, researching and reflecting. Within these learning outcomes, there are many different conventions and ways to understand my various projects and assignments as a writer. Throughout the English 1020 class, I have been able to observe not only my previous strengths, but myself growing as a writer by improving my ability to find strong sources as well as properly citing and explaining them, forming a more logical paragraph structure, and many more conventions when writing an assignment.
...on, this course has taught me many different aspects to writing that I was unaware of in high school. This course has been incredibly fulfilling for me and has been nothing short of an amazing experience. I truly believe all of the things I have learned within this course, such as, writing proper thesis statements, proving my points within the body, discussing topics that critically engage my readers, the use of grammar, and many other essential skills will help me tremendously on my educational path. Although I have learned many skills as to writing a quality essay, I know there are many aspects to writing I can improve on, such as, expanding on my introductions and providing more background within my topics to the readers. I am extremely grateful for the various skills I have learned throughout this course, and I fully intend to utilize them all as I move forward.
Foundations of Writing is said to be one of, if not the most, difficult classes offered in the high school. I have thought about why I am taking the class multiple times. I have quite a few struggles when it comes to writing but I also have many strengths. I believe my writing skills can be improved and I can grow tremendously as a writer by taking this class. Good writing is something that is achieved by working hard and practicing a lot.
As a result I believe that the progress I have made in my writing during the course of English 1B has changed my negative views of writing. As silly as it may sound to say that my fears about writing papers have been defeated, they have. Whether they are short reviews or extensive research papers, I have become more comfortable in writing. I have not only learned how to write and express myself more effectively, by organizing my critical thoughts, but most importantly I have learned that review and revision is an essential part of the writing process. This process how allowed me to grow to become a better writer. The skills I have acquired can be used for future coursework and beyond.
Although you might not know me yet, I can tell you that in these past few years of writing essays and papers, I have learned a lot about who I am as a writer and know that you will appreciate my work in the future. My previous English teachers have taught me many techniques about writing a good essay and ways I could improve my work. They have given me lots of advice, but also told me things that I’ve disagreed with. Even though I’m not a big fan of writing essays, I truly believe that since I started writing in grade school until now, I have improved as a writer, so much, that whenever I look back and read a paper that I wrote, I feel surprised and shocked due to the differences compared to my work nowadays. Overall, even though I might not be the best writer in the world, I still work hard each year to improve my writing and use many techniques to show my teachers what type of a writer I am.
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
Through this semester, I have learned a lot of writing skills and techniques. The learning process of this course is not smooth, there are many difficulties and issues I have meet during this semester. However, in the meantime I also revived many benefits from this course. I think the skills and techniques I learned from this course not only make me able to pass this class, but also is valued for my future academic journey.
...larify the structure and destination in which I was headed. By revising my essays I was able to make the content and message seem more important and made the final drafts seem a slight degree better than the originals, but the finals were better nonetheless. The instructor did a very good job in guiding me and helping find my way into writing by focusing on some of the problems I was facing and clarified them so that I would better understand them. The instructor helped me expand on my grammatical by helping me discover what it was that I lacked while constructing basic sentence structure; the usage of commas and semi-colons, quotations, and how to sight titles of books and articles within an essay. This English 101 course I have attended has helped me develop better writing skills as well as helped me create more profound essays and a very satisfying research paper.
This course has helped me a lot in developing my writing skills. I have learnt to improve the content and formation of the sentences. The growth is comprised of many other elements that make my writing better. I have become much more confident in writing essays and composing responses towards different topics. This growth came from a lot of practice and the techniques that were taught to me during the course. There are several aspects of this improvement that I would like to mention.
Everyone is expected to use their writing skills either for homework or note taking. The first week of college and I'm already having up to 3 pages of notes for each class. I would like to be more organized in my writing. Although there are more things I would like to change about my writing, I'm satisfied with the way I write.
A mentally disabled but diligent female high school student attends a tutoring session at the learning center to work on a classroom writing assignment. Despite encouragement and prompts from the tutor, the student is unable to write. She states that she hates writing and declares that she will take a zero for the grade rather than complete the assignment.
Thesis Statement: While I still need to work on correct punctuation, I learned TIQA and creating an appropriate thesis statement and continue to grow as a writer.
How are you Mrs. Griffin? I was just sitting and reading the old assignments that I did a year ago. I couldn't stop thinking about how much I hated writing until you taught me the basic skill of plotting everything down on a piece of paper before I start writing. I have finally adopted a habit that helps me write and think over my topic before I even pick up the pen.
(intro) Writing is the skill that should be taught to students from (k-12). Writing is the root to get education for students, because without writing no one can able to succeed in education. Writing teach students to communicate better, using correct grammar, punctuation, and improve spelling mistakes in writing. Writing is an important part of communication for students to talk with other peoples. Writing helps to understand of English language and reflect people as a person. Student can improve his writing skill as much as he want to during school and college career, for example, a student is taking test or doing homework for his writing class. Writing play an important role in our life because everybody use writing in their daily life. For example, a businessman use his writing skill for write down his daily profit and loss. (Thesis): Writing help students to prepare for their future education and job.