Improving Writing Skills Through Online Learning

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When joining this online class, I thought I knew everything there was to know about English and the writing process. My previous English class focused solely on the process of writing well-structured, five-paragraph essays. I believed that this course would be somewhere along those same lines. I have always struggled with writing papers, so taking this class made my previous English class look like a walk in the park. However, this course has taken me out of my comfort zone and has helped me improve my writing significantly through assigned essays and various mini assignments. As a writer, I now feel confident in developing a strong thesis statement, successfully integrating sources and quotes in my writing to help prove a point, and using
Naturally, I am not a great writer, it takes me days to develop what I believe to be the “perfect” paper. I have to make various outlines and really brainstorm what I am going to discuss. I have learned over the course of this semester that if you have good sentence structure, and excellent vocabulary, you can write less and still get the point across in your argument. Because I tend to overthink my papers, I do not use proper sentence structure and write excessively. In one of the first papers I wrote for this class, I felt as though my sentences were weak and I was repeating myself in every paragraph. I would also wander off into first person point of view without realizing it. Throughout the weeks in this course, I used the quizzes, textbook, feedback and assignments to my advantage and tried to expand my vocabulary to make my sentences sound more complex and stronger. I could tell that my writing had improved significantly in my research paper assignment because I used stronger words which helped create an academic tone throughout my writing. Overall, my sentence structure is not perfect, and is something I still need practice with, but it has absolutely improved over the course of the

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