Since the beginning of the school year, I feel my overall writing has improved because of my new abilities to construct an arguable and detailed thesis and back it with strong, relevant information, evaluate and integrate sources that I find, and make sure that my writing is void of any grammatical and punctuation errors. I can remember back to the beginning of the year when I was just starting out; my writing skills were ok. As the semester progressed, I noticed the quality of my writing was improving, as each of my new skills was developing. At the beginning of the year, my papers did not even contain a thesis; I just kind of wrote the paper how I felt was right. In addition, I was not very good at finding sources or even incorporating them into my writing; it just was not something I was hugely concerned about. Lastly, when I would get back my essays with notes, I would see how many grammatical and spelling errors I made. But as the end of the year came to a close, I saw a huge improvement in my final essays, including some in other classes, here is how it happened.
As I have noticed a development in my writing, I can first thank my new ability to construct an arguable and detailed thesis as well as the ability to back the thesis with strong relevant information. I had been taught over the year how to properly construct a thesis and back it with strong, relevant information. As weird as it sounds, this reflective essay that I am writing right now is the first essay of the semester where I have been able to create a good thesis and support it. I plan to use the strategies that I have learned to form a thesis for any future papers that I write. My ability form a strong thesis is not the only skill that I learned over the course of the year that has proved beneficial to my writing, as my ability to evaluate and integrate sources into my writing has played a large role as well. Over the course of the year, I have learned how to properly evaluate sources and work them into my writing. Not only have I seen a difference in my ability to do so in this class, but also in my FYI class. I will be citing three in-text citations, my first and second in-text citations are from this (WRIT 1400) class, the third is from my FYI class. “Through the eyes of James Paul Gee, my study of Latin would be considered a secondary discourse”. Here you can see that there is very little information on who the person I speak of is. You could say that is kind of vague. Then, in my second citation, I step up the level of detail. “Boghrati, a correspondent for worldpress.org, states that in order to enforce the dress code, fifty new police squads were put into action”. In this …show more content…
I learned of two methods to help submit papers completely free of spelling and grammatical errors. The first method is to re-read the paper twice out loud. This allows me to identify any funky sentence structuring or misplaced words. The second method that I learned was to run my paper through paperrater.com. This website allows me to find any grammatical and or spelling errors that may be hiding in my paper. By using these methods in my writing, I am now able to make my writing completely void of
As I have noticed a development in my writing, I can first thank my new ability to construct an arguable and detailed thesis as well as the ability to back the thesis with strong relevant information. I had been taught over the year how to properly construct a thesis and back it with strong, relevant information. As weird as it sounds, this reflective essay that I am writing right now is the first essay of the semester where I have been able to create a good thesis and support it. I plan to use the strategies that I have learned to form a thesis for any future papers that I write. My ability form a strong thesis is not the only skill that I learned over the course of the year that has proved beneficial to my writing, as my ability to evaluate and integrate sources into my writing has played a large role as well. Over the course of the year, I have learned how to properly evaluate sources and work them into my writing. Not only have I seen a difference in my ability to do so in this class, but also in my FYI class. I will be citing three in-text citations, my first and second in-text citations are from this (WRIT 1400) class, the third is from my FYI class. “Through the eyes of James Paul Gee, my study of Latin would be considered a secondary discourse”. Here you can see that there is very little information on who the person I speak of is. You could say that is kind of vague. Then, in my second citation, I step up the level of detail. “Boghrati, a correspondent for worldpress.org, states that in order to enforce the dress code, fifty new police squads were put into action”. In this …show more content…
I learned of two methods to help submit papers completely free of spelling and grammatical errors. The first method is to re-read the paper twice out loud. This allows me to identify any funky sentence structuring or misplaced words. The second method that I learned was to run my paper through paperrater.com. This website allows me to find any grammatical and or spelling errors that may be hiding in my paper. By using these methods in my writing, I am now able to make my writing completely void of