I am currently a teenager whose writing has developed significantly over the past few years. In fact, my writing was absolutely shocking when I was younger; it was only recently that it has improved. From about year 6, I noticed that my writing was not very good, especially when I found out the importance of using punctuation. Yes, I did not use commas AT ALL. Also, my vocabulary choices were practically always informal, and I was never able to judiciously incorporate effective language into my sentences. However, these issues became apparent quickly, and so I knew I needed to act upon them, but I knew it was going to take a lot of work. In order to start practising, I continuously listened in class, experimented with language features and …show more content…
In fact, I went in virtually every lunch time into the “IT Lab” to edit my letter. Each day, I would make slight changes, and this all eventually culminated together to form the product that I was happy with. At this point, I was half way through the year, feeling more confident about my writing. Entering term 3, I continued to show the development of my writing as I produced a “description” of an invention I needed to design. Whilst creating the prose, I practised my adjectives, adverbs, etc. to develop the complexity of my writing. After spending a considerable amount of time editing this piece, I received an A/A+ overall, which made me feel blissful. But notably, I noticed that I actually put in less effort to produce this response, which showed me that my writing was developing quite …show more content…
However, I felt like most of my development had occurred in year 6, and that the other years of work did not impact upon my exhibition result. Hence, I feel that year 6 was the best year for my academic progress for all subjects, particularly English. At the end of the exhibition, I was so pleased with my work, as I attained an A+ in the project. Consequently, I felt that, if I did not stay determined throughout the year, that I would not have produced a result as effective as that. Overall, as well as developing my own competence to write more effectively, a special thanks goes to my teacher who sought my problem from the start and kept me on track to achieve my goals. If this did not occur, I would not be in the position I am currently in
Throughout the course of the year in Lit/Writing I have grown as a writer as I have learned how to write clear and concise thesis statements and select relevant evidence. One way in which my writing has improved is through the conciseness and clearness of my thesis statements, as I now incorporate more detail into my thesis, while keeping it unambiguous. In the short story summative assessment for “The Scarlet Ibis,” my thesis statement lacks a lot of information. It goes as follows, “In the short story ‘The Scarlet Ibis,’ James Hurst uses indirect characterization through the narrator to show that pride can override and take over one’s conscience.”
How have I improved as a writer? I am thinking about my action plan as a writer have I improved, have I met the goals I set out to achieve on my first day of class, and what have I learned in this class? I will go over my time in this class and review the various topics I mentioned above and more. Looking back over my time in this class I will critique and praise myself. How I felt about writing when I first started this class compared to how I feel now, I would have to say I am more comfortable with writing.
This semester was filled with many bumpy roads. I struggled in the beginning of the semester with my writings , as I didn 't feel confident enough to write a well developed writing. I seemed to find myself struggling whereas writing was not my favorable subject. The major errors I had in my writings this semester would be , grammatical errors,work citations, transition words, formatting ,paragraph development, sentence structure , and sentence level issue. Therefore I have set goals to improve my writing in the future.
With my written essays, I simply revised the essays as I wrote. So, I assert that this course has helped me learn to manage my writing efforts a bit
Each experience has made me continue to grow and constantly learning something new. I have truly enjoyed this English class and know what I have learned will be tremendously
Not So Fast”, conducts her own study with a few colleagues to take notes on how students writing skills are changing. She decides to conduct another one twenty five years later to see how much the writing skills have changed since technology has been updated and became more available to students. She found that “students today are writing more than ever before.” Although we still have the same amount of writing errors as before, the patterns of errors are different. Many people argue that technology is only making our writing skill worse, this study helps to prove a different theory.
Dear Ms. Vantuno, It seems crazy that I am already halfway through the school year and have learned so much about myself as a writer. Before taking this class, my greatest strengths as a writer were focusing on my argument, finding the proper evidence to support it, and my creativity, which helped me find different ways to express what I want to write about. Those strengths have helped me in this class and I realize that I have gained many strengths after being in AP Lang for 6 months. For example, I am able to be more concise with my writing and explain my evidence in simpler terms.
Writing is a craft that I have been developing my whole life; however, it is something that I have been doing on a professional basis for over 6 years. As a writer, I engage myself in my work, which means, every piece I deliver, has a little of me within. It is my passion; something I always knew I wanted to do and as such, I studied Mass Communications, with an emphasis in Public Relations and Advertisement to help improve my skills; making my work professional, rather than habitual. I provide all my clients with the highest degree of professionalism; always going above and beyond; delivering exceptional work at all times.
My sentences still read very choppy although they are much better than when I started this class. This can be ironed out of my writing by spending more time proofreading my papers. The sentence fluency I think will come the more I write, even by my last paper I feel it has improved drastically compared to my first paper. I think I could have been even more successful in this class if I had spent more time out of class proofreading and using my time better while I was in class. I feel that I have grown more than I originally planned on because this class involved us more in the first quarter.
ENG-122 Reflective Essay My writing process has changed tremendously over the course of this class. I feel more accomplished, confident and I feel sometimes that my ideas and thoughts just come in to my mind out of nowhere and I start writing about anything now. I pay attention to my punctuation and grammar more as I have polished them more now, not only when I write but then others write as well. I am constantly looking for errors and I highly think this is helping me a lot in my career.
I believe that through this past semester, my writing knowledge, and writing ability has grown significantly. I hope to continue growing my knowledge about writing throughout the rest of my days in school and the rest of my
My Writing Experience In previous courses, my writing skills have been mediocre or just enough to pass the class. Throughout the duration of this course, I have written a variety of papers using different techniques and skills. Previously I would write assuming that the only audience would be my instructor. This course has helped me realize that there are many steps and skills involved with writing a well-organized and easy to comprehend essay.
There are other areas in my writing that I have improved on. I have improved on my grammar, verb constructions, use of verb tenses and organizational skills to make my writing flow better when reading. My overall progress in completing this ten weeks course was wonderful. Every steps and skills I learned in this English class will help me to improve on my writing skills in my other classes and will also help me in my future
Writing had always been one of my strengths, but it was challenging to take that initial step past the sixth form style of writing essays. Moving past this phase has greatly opened my mind. My thoughts are now able to be more complex because I have learned how to maintain a logical argument in a structured
This year in English with Mrs. Portmore-Davies, I grew as both a reader and a writer. In the very beginning of the year, I overused commas. In my summer reading essay, I had 3-4 commas per sentence, which is way too much. After a few lessons about clauses and where to put commas, I became much better at this. I also grew as a reader.