Reflection Essay: Why I Lack Confidence In My Writing

As a very nervous first year student at Westfield State, I went into English 101 lacking confidence in my writing. I Knew I would have struggles and there would be bumps in the road with my writing but I am very eager to learn and become the best writer I can be to help my academic success and become a higher level thinker, what I took from English 101 one was expressing my voice was very key and sentence structure can give your essay a much better feel, knowing what I do know about research aspect of writing is second to none, but I’m not trying to profess just what I have improved, my thesis statements are very weak and I lack organization skills but with the want to become a better writer and trusting the writing process journey I’m on I now I will conquer these task.

After our first essay of the year we got to write a letter to whatever audience we so choose, in the first essay I really struggled with my voice with no strong connections, with no knowledge of really what my topic is it as hard to write an

Myself I realize that just writing the same length of a sentence becomes so boring, it makes the reader become uninterested, like in music you don’t want to hear the same note over and over again, so what purpose does it serve to write the same sentence length? I say none and I’m sure we might be in agreement on this.” I first understood with a sudden clarity, the purpose that a paragraph. I didn’t have the vocabulary to say “paragraph,” but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words specific for a common purpose. They had some specific reason inside the same fence.”(Alexie) Once you know what the purpose of a paragraph is then you truly can begin to start to learn how to be a writer and properly use the content you have acquired to your essay or whatever educational use you need to