Reflection On My Writing

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Reflection Essay Writing has always been one of my least favorite things to do. I would have liked writing maybe if I was better at it, but I am not. Whenever I start writing, I have a hard time putting up all the ideas together, or I forget most of my thoughts while writing. My writing seems all over the place, and when I try to fix it, I mess it up even more. In English class, I have done different genres of writing like persuasive essays, satire, response to articles and essays using literary devices based on the stories I read in class, argumentative essays, personal essays, book review, and more. I read many books in that class and wrote essays on them. The teacher helped me a lot, but still, I felt like I did not improve much because I still had trouble meeting the length requirement. Also, I could not write the main ideas in detail and my essays always seemed like a summary. Writing was still a weak spot for me. I have always had negative experiences with writing. Even if I tried to make myself interested in writing by reading books or people’s essays I still couldn’t, but my negative attitude towards writing has changed a lot after going to the class. Even though I struggled a lot in the class, I still enjoyed the things that i was learning in this class. I do not despise writing as much …show more content…

Since I am Bilingual, most of the times I had hard time expressing my thoughts into words even though I knew what I was talking about. I knew the perfect word that describe what I was talking about in my language, but I had hard time finding an English word that would describe exactly what I was trying to express. One thing that I learned for sure is that we should never underestimate ourselves. I have developed many techniques over the year: reading essays out loud after writing them so I know how it will sound, and try to express my thoughts without thinking about what I am bad

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