What I Learned In My Writing Class

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Growing up, I never thought writing and reading were a struggle. They were always my strongest subjects. However, after I was enrolled in this class, I realized I wasn’t as great as I thought I was. I realized that in my years of being in school, I never actually had the resources to plan out an amazing essay and get the grade I deserve. I was never pushed to try hard enough, until I got this class. This year out of all years has been the most eye-opening for me academically. I learned many new techniques for writing that I didn’t know in the beginning of the class, such as questioning, t charts, webbing, and even brainstorming. I’ve always been used to just writing a rough draft and turning that one rough draft into a mediocre essay. This …show more content…

It was so bad that I failed the reading STAAR test in freshman year. This class has MOST definitely helped me with my reading skills. Not reading as in reading a book, or paragraphs, but my critical reading skills. Critical thinking was the worst for me. I saw those two words in an assignment and I would skip the question because it was so challenging for me. Well not anymore. I am so used to critical thinking, that when I am faced with it, I actually get kind of excited! Obviously there’s still so much room for improvement but I am surely better at it now. This year I have been surrounded by strategies that I do now, as if I’ve been doing them for years. There is one strategy that I didn’t know I needed until it was taught to me. SQ3R. This helps me so much with studying because if anyone knows me, they know I had no study regimen until this year. I would cram the information to a test the night before and get a flat 70. Now, with SQ3R I have an organized method that can get me an A without a doubt. The techniques that helped me the most this year were all the reading strategies we learned from the TSI book. I have grown tremendously as a reader with those strategies. I find myself using them on a daily basis. The’ two by two’ technique, which prevents students guessing on tests, is the one that takes the cake. I used to always make an

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