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During this semester I learned a lot about writing and reading; I always am a good critical thinker. As reader when I'm compared my reading now with when I started this semester it's totally different, matter of fact I never took my time to read a book or a short stories and if I read it I’d never understand or get what's the stories are talking about, it was kind of hard for me to get something that I read so easy but this class helped me though. I did read a lot of poems during this semester but I don't really like poems they are so complicated, sometimes it's kind of hard to understand what the poet is trying to say, but I think that's the purpose of poems unlike stories which are more understandable and less complicated. So, what I'm …show more content…
My English teachers always told me, my essays don't need to be perfect just do my best so I always tried to do my best on my papers. I think I did learn new techniques that make the revision process easier for me, so now I can notice that my writing is getting …show more content…
It was an interpretation assignment and I do love interpreting text especially when the text is interesting. So the text was interesting and I did interpret it the way I can because the text was so confusing it wasn't that easy to understand it, so I analyzed it the way I can; to analyzed it I just followed some steps like what's the setting, the characterization, the plot and structures and many more that's why it was so interesting me, the confusion, my interpretation and my analysis. However, "The literature log assessment" is the one that I found particularly difficult for me, I didn't know how to do it. It seemed a little bit confusing to me; usually when I have an essay to write I spent 1-2 days to think about it and came up with ideas like how should I begin it, what to say and day 2 I supposed to be thoughtful and begin my writing paper but this one was the hardest for me I couldn’t even know what say, how to begin it I was so confused, but it seemed so easy to me when I first had the assignment and when I was ready to do it, it's confused. So, the due date was approached I just did it and I had no idea what I was written about but I considered it as an experience though, I felt bad about it at first meanwhile I told myself I should consider it as an experience and you cannot learn with no
However, these techniques that I fostered as a child proved lacking when I entered middle school. It turns out that in comparison to my previous writing, I was no longer writing for my own self-improvement or joy; I was now writing to please someone who was grading the work. After many dissatisfying remarks about my writing, the self-conscious feelings I had as a child crept up on me once again. I felt the need to impress and be perfect. For every paper I wrote from then on, there was that little voice in the back of my head telling me that I had to try twice as hard because English was my second language. For a very long time, I was not able to write a paper without scrutinizing it harshly. “The oppressor,” as Anne Lammot states in “Bird by Bird,” kept me from what I truly wanted to write and made me focus on the unattainable goal of being perfect. Perfection is something that “… limit[s] us…[and] keep[s] us from experiencing life” (Lammott 30). The purpose was not to write for me, but for others, and that was my flaw; I was just writing to please. Technicality was my only worry and I did not worry if what I was writing actually had
Poetry may be the hardest form of literature to examine, at least for me. After reading some of our assigned poems this semester I was left completely confused, as to not only the authors purpose, but also the relevance and importance of the poem; None ...
The answer lies in the perfect formula, mastered through trial and error, to arrange success. Now listen closely. The trick was to use the exact same writing style and essay structure that got me the grade I wanted freshman year, all throughout high school. As long as I got a decent grade, my writing skills would be good enough. Why would I seek improvement, when the end product would be praised? Unconsciously, I was getting into a habit of a fixed
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.
In the beginning of English 101 I was what you call a novice writer a person who only wrote what they felt was required. However, certain techniques that I learned in English 101 made me realize that writing was not about filling requirements; it’s about speaking out, exploring and proving a point. “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” (Trimble, 17) In John Trimble’s quote he tries to point out that writing is something that you grow with and learn as you go along. I believe this growth was achieved with a technique that was introduced to me by my professor called repetitive revision. What I found out was that revision of your essays helps in recognizing your mistakes and enhances the flow of your essays. By providing me...
According to Donald M. Murray in The Makers Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts “A piece of writing is never finished”. Before this class, I didn’t really revise my essays
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.
This essay taught me that even though I was learning a lot from this course, that there was still room to improve. Likewise, I ended up with the assumption I had done great on this essay since I wrote about a topic I enjoyed, makeup. I was proven wrong. The evaluation paper called for evaluating and expanding on the quotes you had provided in your paper, something I wasn’t as familiar with until this class. I didn 't do so well on this particular essay but I had the opportunity to learn from my mistakes. Mrs.Robinson gave a get out of jail free card when she said we could rewrite one of our first three essays and this was the essay I chose. After revising this essay, I truly feel like I understand more about the editing process. I went back and checked each paragraph to make sure everything was perfect, changed word choice, and looked over and over for grammatical errors. Because of this I now know that I need to revise the essay before I turn it in since every writer makes
Going through English 101 I have made myself better at writing, by taking my time on my papers, focusing on my papers to make them better, and to look for small errors in my writing to make them better. I made myself better by going over my papers slowly to make them seem like they were better. I focused on grammar errors
I was never a person that liked to write essays. This semester I really enjoyed writing those essays and specially because I was learning new things while writing them. Some things I could do to improve my essay writing are not to wait till the last three or four days before I turn my essay in to start doing it. Another thing I will do is if I forget how to do something or about some rule in the common errors I made I will just go back to all the lessons I printed out to have as reference. I think those will help me allot. And one last thing I will do to improve my writing is to try my best not to confuse all those words I got confused. I will do my best to learn each word and its rule of where it goes so I won’t have the same mistakes I had this semester.
The Introduction to Poetry class had taught me an incredible amount about the variety of poets and their own unique style of writing poems, and how these poems has more than just one viewpoint. The materials taught throughout this course has given me a new perspective that I will carry with me for a long time. I learned about how poetry isn’t just a piece of work that poets creates for fun, but rather a descriptive piece of writing that are written in the poet's' own style and own outlook in life. Poetry is more than just playful, it is inspirational and connects to many different culture. The activities done in this course: the song lyrics analysis, the poetry analysis, the presentation, and the two essays, showed great results in my understanding
1. At the start of this class, the only real knowledge of poetry that I have is from English Comp. 1 and 2. With that in mind, there has been a seven year gap from taking English Comp 1 and I just took English Comp 2 last semester. I have never been a heavy reader of any type of literature, mostly due to time restraints. However, when I have read in the past, it can be very relaxing and calming.
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
Before taking this class I was unsure of whether I would like it or not. I had not written any poetry since middle school and the poems I had read in high school were all old and boring. That is not to say that I wasn’t looking forward to it because I knew there was poetry that I liked and I’ve always had an appreciation for words. Having not written poetry in so long made me unsure of how to actually do it. Should I use a special size notebook? Edit the piece while typing it? Etc. Gradually these anxieties dissipated and I was able to focus simply on the actual writing. As my writing evolved I became more aware of word meanings and line breaks, not just in my own writing and other poems I read but also everything else I’ve been reading during my time in this class.
I keep an archive of school work from past semesters of college and even high school. So I opened it up and looked through a few essays I had senior year at my high school. It quickly became apparent to me that although my writing style was consistent and slowly got better over those years, I still made some of the same mistakes in paper after paper. I tended to just throw out the idea I had in my head at the time onto the page. Yes I did manage to transcribe my meaning from my head to the text, but more often then not you couldn 't tell because It was buried under mountains of unnecessary text and formatted