What I Learned To Improve My Writing Class

My writing skills are not the best. I did not write a lot of essays in high school, and when I did I only wrote them a certain style. Entering English in college, I expected to become a better writer, but instead I learned how to write different styles from reading other writers’ essays. This semester in Dr. Meyer’s class I wrote and read a lot. Dr. Meyer made the whole class read different readings every day. I learned new things from the different readings. The readings made me think about how to improve my writings skills. These readings included different types of writing such as persuasive, personal, and informational. The readings I read did help me improve my writing. I had to write essays similar to some readings such as my identity paper. Reading the works of others gave me more of insight of how writing is supposed to be. I want to be an all-around writer instead of just knowing one style of writing really well. I feel reading these essays every day, and learning about the different styles of writing helped me get a wider array of knowledge. I will need to use what I learned this semester for next semester as well. Next semester will be even more reading and …show more content…
It made me think faster and just write instead of thinking what to write. Free writing made writing come easier to me instead of struggling what to write. Before free writing, when I started an essay I just stared at my computer screen for the longest time. Now as a writer I feel I can write an essay a lot quicker now. The free writes were mostly about the readings we read in class. I had to use summarization, analyzation and other thought processes to write the free writes. I will have to use these skills in all areas of writing such as lab reports and other essays. I still do not think my writing is as good as it can be. Over time, with practice my writing can improve. In the future, I know I will always be writing about