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Creative Writing Skills Improvement Methods
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Reflective Essay Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m …show more content…
It was also one of my favorites. I loved how you got to use your own creativity for this paper and didn’t have to follow any specific guidelines. It lets people, including myself, show their creativity, story making side. Although I hate writing, I enjoyed being able to brainstorm and create my own personal story that is exactly how I want it to be. This essay, surprisingly, took me more than a couple hours to do. I did not wait until the absolute last minute to type this essay. Instead, I took my time and did a little day by day, giving myself more time to think and expand the creativity of the paper. During this paper I had mastered the ability to create my own fictional story that appeals to almost all audiences. The only thing within this story that I was having problem with was detail. When I read or write something, I don’t expect a lot of detail. I’d rather imagine the scenario in my head than explain it in a specific way on paper. Although it was not easy for me, I believe I did a decent job on adding sensory …show more content…
I am one of those people who still have no idea what they want to become when they’re older. I do not know if I am going to college or if I am just going to look for a job right out of school. The research we did for this paper allowed me to explore the different types of jobs, most of them that I had never heard of. It allowed me to see their rating, whether employees enjoy working in that field, as well as their pay. I kind of thought about becoming a businessman or creating my own company. This essay allowed me to view my different ideas in a more realistic way. I am glad we did this essay. During this essay I feel like I did a pretty good job at including facts and evidence, while providing a cited source. The only trouble I had with this paper was trying to include good evidence without copyright. I wanted to add as much detail about the career that I
Throughout my years in high school I have never been the best at writing. I have struggled and failed numerous times and I just didn 't think I would ever get any better when it came down to writing in my English classes. I always had to ask my parents to help me comprehend words, phrases and also how to pronounce certain words. For example my junior year of high school it was time to prepare ourselves for the SAT and ACT testing which are standardized tests that every student must take if they want to further their education in college. When I took the test for the first time I felt like I failed miserable because my score was so low. I received a 14 my very first time taking the ACT, and my lowest score was in reading. I was so embarrassed
I have never liked writing; I always thought it was a waste of time. It was a great therapy but I never found academic writing to be useful just tedious. Only ever writing when I had too made it harder for my writing skills to grow or improve in any way. I have not taken an English class since the 10th grade, even then I never gave it much effort, just doing what I had to so I could pass the class. Then I jump in to College English 1010, I feel like I do well in all other subjects but this one. English is my worst nightmare.
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
For this artifact, I wrote a literary analysis, and as a class we ready Everyone Leaves by Wendy Guerra. This was a learning process for myself, I got to go more indepth about Cuba and its history, based off of a time period when cuba was under strict circumstances. I also was taught how to write about different poems such as African praise poem, senryu collection, Ballad poem and practice writing free verse. These were some skills that helped me create my artifact by building up evidence on focusing on one character. The essay's main idea is to see what theme is stated, implied throughout the entire story. The essential question for this assignment was why do people stay or why people leave. This is meaningful especially during the time when
Writing assignments over this course of time have gave knowledge and taught new processes for specific types of assignments. My attitude overall this semester has changed towards the writing process, as before I only use to pay attention to developing my three main ideas. Now I give attention to throws cited, grammar, structure and organization of the paragraphs. Essay’s overall presentation, problem solution and convincible factors lead to a good essay. This essay reflects level of difficulty or ease to produce essays, all the possible tasks and processes involved, and writing process of specific essay.
Within this essay the writer will show how reflection can inform and improve their professional practice. Throughout there will be identification and critical analysis of the key elements of reflective practice in relation to the role of the teacher. There will also be focus on what is reflective practice, Gibb’s (1988) view of the reflective practice cycle process, Van Manen (1991) view of reflection before action, Schon (1983) view of reflection in action and the view of reflection after action. The term reflective practice relates to the way in which teachers look at their own experiences to see what is working and what is not.
1. Throughout the unit of snorkelling, I developed, extended and applied my SACE Personal and Social Capabilities by, developing a sense of personal identity and self-awareness. This was achieved by, utilising and expanding my knowledge and achieving an Australian Underwater Federation (AUF) Snorkelling Certificate. This certificate opens a wider spectrum of jobs opportunities and improves your resume significantly if wanting to become an Aquatics or Snorkelling Instructor, or a Marine Biologist Teacher.
Reflection is a form of thinking, it affects what we say, how we act and feel and relates to our beliefs and values (Taylor, 2010). This essay looks at the professional term ‘reflective practice’, what it is and what is the significance of developmental professional skills in reflective practice. Throughout life, people whether consciously or unconsciously reflect on events daily. The process of reflection allows a person to take note of how they approach a situation, their thoughts, feelings during and after and what they can take from it. (Oelofsen, 2012).
Before taking Composition I, I thought of myself as a very strong writer. Throughout all of my high school courses I always excelled at any writing assignment that I was given. I was a master of the five-paragraph essay and MLA format and did not think there was anything else I needed to learn, but I was blatantly wrong. Going into the first day of Composition I, I was nervous because I had heard that it was a time consuming class, but I was still confident in my own abilities. English had never been my best or favorite subject, but I always scored high on my essays even though I was missing large portions of how to effectively write an essay. I really struggled with elaborating all of my points and articulating what I was trying to say without
Before taking English 1A, I was a discouraged writer because as an English learner, I did not believe that I had any ability to be an acceptable writer. Therefore, I did not have any joy while I was doing writing assignments. However, I have gradually loved writing through this semester. I fortunately got plenty of helps from my classmates and professor; thus, my writing skills have gotten improved a lot. I currently can feel that writing is a quite enjoyable process, and I like delivering my ideas to other people by writing, too. I am really proud that I have enhanced my pre-writing skills, writing structure and revising skills and have learned how to write an effective thesis statement and how to deal with rhetorical analysis. However, I still have lots of deficiencies in my articles, such as grammar problem and the lack of logical transition.
Sadly, my next school year was my worst ever. I had poor grades in all of my subjects and I did poorly in many subjects, but there was one class I didn’t mind struggling in it because it peaked my interest. English my junior year was my favorite class even if I did not do as well as I wished. I read books that interested me and I wrote essays on things I enjoyed writing about. While writing has never been a strong subject for me, I have always loved writing. I enjoy writing about things that interest me and that I have a passion for. Intro to composition has changed the way I think about writing, it allowed me to write about what I wanted while guiding me to write more intellectual and specific through constant revisions and one on one conferences with my
Being a sophomore student as California State University Fullerton in CNSM 100 has been peculiar to this very day. In the first week of the course, I thought that this class was going to be completely tedious since it is geared towards freshman. I however, was proven wrong. This class has allowed me to grow more as a lifelong learner and a student by providing me different methods to measure myself as a learner. Additionally, this class instructed me many ways that I can improve my organization and time management with my courses that was reinforced with a knowledgeable peer mentor. Overall, I will discuss how this course provided me with three critical areas for my success academically and beyond.
On the twenty fifth of August of this year, as I was making my way to the first class of that would kick off my college career, I thought of the renowned Lao-tzu saying, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Anxious and unsure of my strength as a writer, I sat down in my Comp 1000 class where my journey in my writing development would begin, and with each assignment completed it would ultimately continue to escalate in its proficiency.
As I stated in my previous reflective essay, I hated writing in grade school. I sucked my teeth and groaned every time my teachers assigned an essay for homework. I don’t actually hate writing. I just disliked it because I never excelled in it. I wrote just to get the job done, but never took the time to pay attention to the writing process and the other aspects of writing. As I grew older and got a career, I realized how important writing was in the real world. From friends revising your status updates on Facebook that were plagued in grammatical errors or writing a professional email to your boss, writing skills are crucial to the real world.