My supporting ideas would get mixed and I would lose the attention of the reader. Secondly after rereading my own writing it becomes clearer that my sentences are not making sense and the reader gives up before reading the rest of the writing. Previous teachers have told me that I am not speaking clear enough about the topic I am trying to explain and/or relate to. When writing it appears clear to me, but when someone else reads it, it does not appear clear to them. My third and final goal was to comprehend direction. When writing I stray from the topic, bring up three to four different topics and retract back to the original topic and fail the assignment. Since being in college, I have learned a new way to write without going off topic as
Barry Alford, the author of Freirean Voices, Student Choices is an English professor at Mid Michigan Community College. In this specific piece of writing, he states that “particularly when they find themselves following some formula organizing the topic instead of the trail of their own thinking” (P. 280). Meaning that students just do exactly what they are told to do instead of venturing out and making it their own writing. Alford talks about how students need to have more in depth and creative forms of writing rather than being boring. A major thing he believes is that students need to hear themselves and their other classmates before they start writing.
My dislike of the exercise of writing will make my progress slower. I know practice will help and encouragement and constructive criticism from my instructor will make me a better writer. It is important to me to write my ideas clearly.
How does writing support a deeper understanding of concepts in all content areas? According to Alvermann, Gillis, & Boggs, (2017), our weeks reading teachers can avoid frustration and confusion when they choose a topic for students to research and read as well as write about the chosen topic. Writing can be interesting if teachers create and outline directing students how they should write and format their papers. Also, the teacher should allow students to understand the reason for creating reading and writing their papers.
You have to have all your thoughts organized and make sure you don’t get off tangent. The hardest part for me is organizing my thoughts and keeping on tangent. It’s extremely hard for me to stay on one point. The easiest part for me for the first writing draft was picking the topic.
My feelings toward writing aren 't good nor bad. Writing is something i have had difficulty with in my past. I have no problem brainstorming ideas on what topics to write my assignments on, even if i am given a prompt, but I do have difficulty with sitting down and planning my work. I always find myself getting stuck. So I almost never take the time out to plan out my ideas i come up with.
Like right now I am fighting going on a tangent. I also do not like how I structed my paper. I am a very basic writer, because that is what I was taught in grade school. I have a very definite introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. It is a very basic way to write, and I feel like my audience could have been more influenced by my writing if I made my paper flow more.
My history as a writer has been a bit of a struggle of slow development. From a young age I had a hard time with spelling and this is still a trouble area for me, even with the help of autocorrect. As I grew in age and as a writer my problematic area became not including enough nitty gritty details. My bad experiences that I recall would always involve the start of writing because I struggle with beginning paragraphs. Also, I tend to use the ending paragraph to just repeat myself, so overall my first and last paragraphs are usually shit.
Throughout my education, writing strategies persisted to be a challenge for me. I dreaded writing because I could never find ways to transition my thoughts from my mind to the paper. Ironically, a class that petrified me due to the amount of required writing ended up helping me in numerous ways. English 1301 and my professor prepared me for college and real life by giving me a foundation of effective learning strategies.
The piece of writing which I felt was unsuccessful for me was the Rhetorical Analysis of an article relating to a topic from our course book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. This piece of writing was difficult for me to organize my ideas around. The article that I decided to use for my rhetorical analysis highlighted mass incarceration among African American and the effect of civil liberties being are taken away from these individuals. I had a lot of repetition because many of the examples I used demonstrated more than one type of appeal. I found myself repeating what the purpose of the example was and how it demonstrated proper use of ethos, pathos, and logos.
In the beginning, I had several topics that I was discussing. I talked about my school years starting with kindergarten through twelfth grade. I also discussed why my writing was incorrect. My story line was hard to follow because I was discussing too many topics at one time. The reader could not understand what I was trying to say.
I feel that my sentence structure has improved but, what I still identify as a weakness is that I tend to drift from topic when writing and making sure I don’t summarize what I had previously written in the conclusion. What I have learned so far in the study of literature is that when it comes to poetry you need take the poem line by line sometimes to understand it. My favorite piece of literature so far has been reading Hamlet by William Shakespeare because I enjoyed reading plays when I was in English such as Romeo and Juliet and A Streetcar Named Desire. My least favorite was some of the poetry because I had always had difficulty in breaking down the poem and understanding what it was about. I don’t think I have learned anything new about myself as a result of this course except it reminded me why I enjoyed reading
For me, the hard part was to actually know who I am. I could not find a word that could have describe me. Until I found the word anxious. The easy part was actually talking about the topic. I really wanted to show everyone the things I go through every day.
Try to incorporate the following elements when writing and practicing your
One particular teacher in high school helped me improve my writing and reading skills. The advice she told me was to break up the prompt by extracting the most important information. She told me to focus writing about the main idea of the prompt, and to stay on topic. As for reading, my teacher advised me to annotate and stop at some times to see if I’m
Some of the strategies that have worked well are creating a descriptive outline. When writing my persuasive paper, having a developed outline allowed me to keep track of my thoughts and keep them in the correct order. It