Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Writing

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Over this past semester I have grown greatly as a writer. At the beginning of the semester I was not very confident in my writing because I did not think I had the skills to create strong pieces of writing. Not only have I grown as a writer, but I now enjoy writing more. I believe I have grown as a writer in many ways. Some of these include; I am now able to extend my wording to fit a page requirement, I am able to format my writing in MLA format, I have learned new writing strategies, and I am able to write in many styles of writing. At the beginning of the year I struggled meeting the longer page requirements because I would find myself losing ideas and topics to talk about. Going back to even the first assignment we did in this class I …show more content…

As I was looking back at my previous work I realized that my personal essay was my lowest grade. As I worked to revise this piece I realized the areas I can improve on. Some areas I could to work on, based of my personal essay was changing from past to present tense within my essay, my use of semicolons, and working on hooking the reader in my intro. In a few of my essays, I have noticed I tend to switch tenses without knowing it. Mostly when I am talking about something that happened in the past I switch from speaking in past and present tense. I think this happens when I am going fast in my writing and I am not taking my time and realizing what I am saying. In this essay, however, I only found myself changing tense a few times I think it is a skill I need to work on so in the future I will not find myself in this bad …show more content…

This is a very beneficial tool to have because it will make my writier stronger as a whole if the reader is interested in my work. In my personal essay I give a lot of background to living in a small safe town, but I never used a hook to get the reader interested. After reading comments on my piece I added a sentence to the beginning of my essay in attempt to hook the reader. I added “This night would change my point of view on the unfamiliar towns and strangers forever”, in hopes to get the audience's attention and make them want to read more. I think in the future I could work on this more, in attempt to make my writing

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