Throughout the entirety of this English 101 course, I have seen my skills as a writer grow. In the beginning of the school year, my writing fell short of my expectations, but as I continued to work and learn the principles of writing, I have written papers that I am proud to say are mine. Among the aspects of my writing I have improved, the best strives are seen within my my counter arguments and overall strength and coherency of my papers. To begin, when looking at a paper I wrote in August on necessity of first drafts, there were large gaps in my elaboration, bringing concerns as to whether I was arguing and proving a point or merely summarizing what Lamott, the author of the article, originally said. When attempting to argue my evidence, I stated,…
Why does people have negative writing experiences? Writing is the most important skill that a person will learned to do. Writing is a skill that will be use even when school is over. Some people might find writing to be hard while others find it to be difficult. Technology has become very popular, I believed it has created a big effect in people writing.…
Throughout the first semester of College Composition, I wrestled with three essays, all differing in format and content. The first was a narrative that reflected our educational experience. After this came an analysis of a visual text, followed by a research paper. The narrative was the easiest to write; however, I acquired important skills for writing the other two, which were in a less familiar format. With the three essays, I learned about my own writing skills and habits concerning development and critical thinking, time management, and organization.…
I have learned how to format an argumentative essay and organize my writing during this quarter. My writing process keeps me organized and guides me to improve. I like to jot down notes on a topic or create an outline for the beginning stage of my writing. I like to take my time on my writing and proofread my work. Some strengths that I bestow include creating a plan for a certain topic.…
In A Writer’s Reference, authors Diane Hacker and Nancy Sommers explore the writing process by providing the steps needed to write a successful essay. The authors provide plenty of examples for each one of the crucial steps. In section C1 of the book, the topic discussed is how to accordingly plan writing an essay. While in the section C2, it focuses on writing the first draft of your essay. Finally, the third section explains how to properly revise your first draft to make it as best as possible.…
Over the last four essays, my ability to write has improved exponentially from the beginning of the year. Through the four essays I have learned valuable skills that will be the support for future essays. On the two beginning essays my ability to use vocabulary and other valuable skills was improving. By being supplied by information from the instructor, and fellow classmates I was able to spot my weaknesses in my writing and improve where improvement was needed. As the semester progress each essay improved upon the last as self reflection and reflection from others was used wisely.…
Jerone Hunkins, a first year student, attends the University of St. Martin and is currently obtaining an Associate’s Degree in General Liberal Arts. In the English Composition II course, she has learnt how to write various essays such as the Beliefs and Values, Argumentative, Art Critique Essay. She learned when it is appropriate to be objective and subjective, how to write an essay without using personal pronouns and how to critique her peer’s essay bearing in mind that people have different backgrounds. Furthermore, she has mastered the art of critiquing, by providing both positive and negative feedback. In addition, she has improved her exhibition of the MLA format.…
Over the course of English 102, I have developed a new set of skills and learned to become a better writer. When I first came into English 102 I struggled with many different concepts of writing. During the semester in English 102, my writing became stronger because I learned how to incorporate evidence into my argument, do more thorough research, have smoother transitions, and have more organization throughout my essay. I learned how to peer review better and to take what others say and incorporate it into my essay. In the beginning, before English 102, I struggled with good organization and flow to an essay, sandwich evidence into paragraphs, and having strong arguments in persuasive essays.…
The largest concept that stood out this session is the process of accurate essay writing. Since there is various styles’ of outlines, main topics, and layouts such as chronological,…
I was not an excellent writer at the beginning of the school year, but I can gladly say now that I have inherited more writing skills that I will benefit from in the future. One of those skills is being able to reflect on every angle on my topic to allow me to organize my ideas accurately. This skill is beneficial to learn, for it helped with my report essay to acquire the focus of my paper more clearly. Moreover, this skill helped me write papers in my other classes more easily and efficiently. Likewise, my voice can be read strongly throughout the personal narrative essay, because the passion I had for my topic was an emotional one.…
Nowadays, the writing skills are important for the college students. They must have very long essay and some summaries in college life. As for me, the writing skills, including reading and grammar, have changed several times throughout my life. I was influenced by my family and the various teachers I had over my academic carrier when these changes have happened. When I had begun to study English, I knew few little about the writing skills, but the procedure I have received over my academic carrier functioned to form my spirit and skill about writing.…
When I came into the English 101 class I expected to improve my writing skills. At first, I was a little worried about the amount of time I had to finish each essay. As I read the instructions for each of them I felt like they were too difficult and confusing. However towards the end of the trimester I began to understand how to compose the essays while having the right information. I chose to attach essay 3 and 4 because I felt like they showed how much I have improved and how the issues were explained properly, while focusing on main tasks.…
During my employment at McDonald’s, it was expected to read and complete an online module based on the ‘workplace health and safety policy’. Through this, I gained the knowledge of the importance of understanding and adhering to specific workplace policies and procedures. For example, during peak hour a team member after retrieving the fries from the fryer forgot to wait the designated 30 seconds before placing them into the fries’ station and consequently received minor oil burns. Accorded by the ‘workplace health and safety policy’ I reported for to hold her burn under running water for at least 15 minutes and asked a manager for an ‘incident report form’ to complete. As a result, my team member received to proper treatment for her minor burn, the incident was reported and followed up by a manager thus for my team member’s safety and the restaurant 's liability the incident was included in the office records.…
Every person has an individual unique style of writing; however, everyone progressively develops its own style over time. This semester I’ve have seen an improvement in my personal form of writing, learned history about the English language, and learned how to set goals…
This English class has been very helpful in my efforts to improve my writing abilities, but has also been very challenging due to there being a different median for every essay. It’s been a heavy work load especially this semester since I decided to enroll in five classes, but in the end it has been very beneficial indeed. I can’t say that writing essays has been one of my strong points but I believe that this course has helped me improve tremendously and it has also made me feel a lot more comfortable with my writing. While in high school I would usually write all of my essays a day before the due date a habit of mine that was very difficult to overcome, but now I have learned from my mistakes.…