I have never had much confidence with my writing, but I always felt like I was strong at creating an argument and proving it, or telling a great story, whether it be fact or fiction. But it has been a challenge trying to stay organized in my writing, avoid wordiness, and keep my writing rational and not filled with too much emotion. The ebb and flow of my emotions can really deter me from staying focused on what I am writing. And sometimes that can really take you away from my point. Based on feedback I have received on my writing, I can improve my organization, sentence formation, and being mindful of the audience I am writing for. I tend to get lost in my own words and everything starts to overwhelm me because I cannot find the right wording, …show more content…
or I am overthinking it. To improve my writing skills, I should continue to take advantage of the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, and the tutors that GCU provides.
I should proofread and make multiple drafts as I go through the writing process to help me focus on communicating my purpose clearly. In the past, I have written research reports, satires, argumentative essays, cause and effect essays, and compare and contrast essays. I have also written stories, both fact, and fiction. My favorite type of writing is fictional stories because I don’t have to site any sources. It is all coming from my imagination, which I could get lost in. I also love it because I can really put a lot of my personality into the characters. Other than the compare and contrast essays I did for an early education class about controversial issues that take place in the education system, nothing about my writing was directed at my program of study. Now that I am writing about things regarding elementary education, I will be very passionate about my writing. I know that I have to stay organized by outlining my thoughts, ideas, and research. I must be clear about my purpose, tone, and audience. I need to make multiple drafts and spend as much time proofing my work as I spend on writing it. I must manage my time and not procrastinate. And lastly, I must set goals and hallmarks within those goals to motivate me through the harder writing assignments. Success in my field of study is crucial to me. The more I strive to
be successful the more I can help my students.
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this area but I’m going to improve on it. The process of using multiple drafts has
Even though I enjoy writing I am still hesitant to write. It is sometimes hard for me to get started because I am unsure of what to write or how it should be written. I enjoy rules and a correct or wrong way to do things. This does not necessarily occur in writing and I believe this is the reason I am often hesitant to write.
Which now, in my opinion, is one of my biggest downfalls in writing, I want to (with the help of this class hopefully) be able to get my point across clearly but without feeling like I am rambling or that there are just splashes of words in my writing making it seem to go around in circles because I am not finishing my thoughts strong
In generating ideas, my objectives are to have a creative and interesting topic of writing and explore new topics. In developing the content, my objectives are to have a depth, clarity, and coherence writing. I want my writing not to go off topic and stick to the main idea. It is to ensure that my writing is still relevant to the original topic and does not confuse the readers. In revising and proofreading the writing, my objectives is to minimize
Being given the opportunity to write, during class time and for homework was very special to me. With life’s business and constant expectations, I have never made the time to put my thoughts onto paper. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to. I even have multiple empty journals that I have saved for writing. I think I couldn’t quite fill those journals because when I did I never really felt satisfied with what I wrote. I knew what meaning I wanted to express but I think I didn’t know how to get it into a form that I liked. I think I was missing
Writing for me has always been a love and hate relationship since I could remember. Depending on the subject matter that I was writing about I would enjoy it because it suited my style or I loathed it because that specific style was uninteresting and boring to me. Learning certain writing formats were absolutely the worst part about writing when I first started learning in high school. As time pushed on and I grew older I began to develop an appreciation for writing that I did not have before; which is what led me to taking Writing 101 as my first full-fledged college course. I began this course with minimal writing experience because of what I failed to retain before, but now I am a stronger writer than I could have imagined with new skill sets that enhance my professional portfolio.
I’m going to be bluntly honest with you, I am not a great writer. There isn’t any point in sugar coating the truth, especially since my writing abilities are being tested just in writing this paper. While it is obvious I am not the author of a bestselling novel that is ok because I am a business major who is pursuing a career in technology. This year has helped me achieve a better understanding of my style of writing and how I can use that for future employment. The focus of this essay is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of my writing abilities and how that is applicable to my major.
At the beginning of the year, writing was not my strength. I never really liked it at all. Give me a math problem or something to do with engineering and I can figure it out, but forming words, sentences, paragraphs, and essays is not my strongest suit. Now, I've been through this process two times already, I look at a question and try not to answer it directly and reword it the best that I can, and I usually write way more than I intended to, because I never know when to stop. If I haven’t made that clear yet, I am at a loss for what else I do.
My fiction writing when I first came into the program was described many times by people as instructional. This can be linked to what I said earlier about the lack of constructive criticism that I received back during my high school writing days. I went back over several first drafts of my stories and saw what they were talking about. I did a lot of ‘then this happened’ type of sentences and overall it read very choppy and didn’t flow too well. I try to write out the main points of stories and then try to make it flow together. There have been some instances of my first drafts of fiction today still being that way, but it doesn’t appear throughout the entire story. I also had a lot of grammar and punctuation problems, mostly that is a time management issue that I had. I would make so I almost never had the time to proofread my works. That caused me to get chewed to bits more than once in workshop. I have since then made sure that I’ve had time to proofread my
I am generally pretty organized when it comes to writing. Ahead of writing my actual rough draft, I like to jot down the main idea of each paragraph. Also before I turn in my paper, I will revise, proofread, and double check it. I feel confident in my word choice while I am writing. When writing, I try to pick the most sophisticated words I can. I try to obtain a new vocabulary from or during every piece that I write. I also try to keep my grammar usage at the highest level I can when writing new pieces. I personally believe that I have always had a reasonably strong sentence structure. Usually, when i am writing, my mind moves a million miles an hour, and I can only write so fast. Most of the time, the sentences just transfer right from my mind smack dab to the paper. Then, from there on out, the flow just continues. A perfect example is journals; my journals continually just flow instantly onto the page. So my two biggest strengths in writing are fluency and my word
Reflective Paper As an English major, writing had been one of the strengths and it was challenging. Throw it back in high school, five-paragraph essay was so long from my ideas, but now I able to have greatly opened my mind. My thoughts are more an organized and learned how to write.
Additionally, I found some weaknesses in my writing and was able to improve upon them as well. I have always thought that my writing was mediocre, even substandard at times. Due to my lack of confidence in my writing capabilities I found it boring to write; even fearful to write. I never knew how to add voice or style in to my writing. In fact, I thought you weren’t allowed to add voice because school is to serious
Improving writing skills is critical to the college student’s success across all academic disciplines. Writing has become the key to survival in many fields of study. (Pirš1, Pirš1, & Kesié, 2011) There are several strategies to become an effective college-level writer. An important strategy for a writer is project management. Next, writing with a purpose is an essential step. Another crucial guideline is following the mechanics of writing. Finally, utilizing online resources provides the writer invaluable knowledge and references.
I register for this course without knowing what challenges or outcomes would transpire throughout the semester. Nevertheless, I understood that in order to be successful in the class it would take a great deal of determination and motivation. Of course, several of my college courses have involved some type of writing whether it is short summaries, journal keeping, research, or long topic papers. The writing assignments in the past have been fairly easy, however, this class introduces a new spectrum of writing subjects. For instance, we don’t often write letters to faculty members, doctors, or write from a different persons perspective.