reflecting on my progress thus far in this course, I have not only become cognizant of my writing skills and habits, but improvements I need to make to become a better writer. Although writing has never been one of my strong suits, I have learned valuable writing skills and strategies that are applicable to both the professional and academic field.
Transitioning from the way I have been taught to write as a high school student has been the most challenging and influential change I have witnessed in my writing. To elaborate, in high school, we were taught the basis for writing any essay regardless of the audience or topic was the rigid five-paragraph essay structure. Through the Reader Expectation Theory assignment, which involved reading and writing about the theory, I learned how to properly write an essay and the importance of tailoring any piece of work to your audience. This approach differed from my previous method of writing. Formerly I would just gather the information and compose the essay completely disregarding the organization and overall structure of the essay. It is
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One of my strength that I continue to build as a writer is the ability to spend a significant amount of time revising a writing assignment. I have learned the importance of receiving feedback on any writing piece. For example, after going to office hours to receive feedback on the Reader Expectation Theory assignment, I had a better understanding of the theory and how to integrate it into the paper. It is important as a writer to revise your work and receive feedback because often times when we write, we tend to miss key details that should be edited. Although I tend to get bogged down on guidelines and parameters of writing assignments, this has developed into a strength. By understanding the guidelines of assignments, I make certain to include it in my
What I learned that certain events may occur and it will change your thought over something. The steps I had to take was to write a outline overview of what my essay was going to be like and think about the argument and claims I had to pick to support it and find quotes in the book that support my claims. We had to do timed essay about are theme of the essay were going to on. The way we wrote the essay was in TIED format because it would be easier to introduce the claim and back it up with evidence and finally discuss what it means. The leadership skill I used was to complete project effectively because I had to concentrate what I was writing about.
Writing is a fundamental discipline in learning and teaching. As the education level in a person increases, the complexity of what is considered the proper way to write increases well. Peter Elbow and Stanley Fish are two well-known scholars in writing etiquette. Fish’s studies focus more directly on structure of essays rather than the words being expressed. Elbow cares about thought process and how to create a well-written essay that excites its audience.
I do realize I have a lot to learn but anytime I write better than I did the essay before that is a success. So, to any future students if you are here every day and participate you will be successful this class is organized to make sure when you start writing the essays you are well prepared from all the invention techniques. I feel my style has broadened because every essay I write feels easier and more professional. My attitude about writing is better as well I am no longer afraid of writing an essay or communicating via email with another professor or some other professional resource.
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.
In my own opinion, I think there require some attentions for each major writing assignment because the sample essay is not enough for us to construct the better essay.
Through the past two semesters, I have learned a great deal about my writing skills. Before this class, the truly only wrote; filling my papers with the opinions I held myself. “Just writing” was my only option because that was all I had been taught. However, ever since I had attended GSW-1110 and GSW-1120, I have learned to adopt the formal writing style. Through the past two semesters, I have obtained many skills that will be useful to further my educational career, but there are skills that I, nevertheless, must improve on.
Writing is something that has dependably been an issue in my life. I do appreciate writing insofar as it's not scholarly, for example, research papers. I have dependably had issues with writing because of things like grammar and sentence parts. However, this semester has been a major partner to me. We have concentrated all these diverse issues and now feel I have enhanced much on these things yet at the same time could utilize more.
Learning the writing process has been one of the most helpful portions of this course for me. Before this course, I didn’t really have much of a process. If anything, my process was almost backward. I would write first and then organize and outline from what I had written. Understanding the steps of the writing process has helped me to improve my writing.
Critical Reflection Unit Two Throughout the duration of Unit Two, my writing and research skills have improved significantly. Rather than writing on simply facts, I learned to analyze other people’s work in order to better understand their writing. I can now easily pick out rhetorical features and analyze them in my own writing. Another major improvement I have noticed throughout this unit was better planning skills.
The comments from my instructor, the online material, my research, the online writing center and comments from other students in the discussion boards have helped me so much to improve my writing skills. In the writing process, the step that I feel I have improved a lot is editing, as I am constantly reading my writings and editing them as I finish them, over and over again before I publish them. The steps in the writing process that I like the most are finding a topic in the Pre-writing step and Drafting. I like having a lot of ideas floating around and think about which idea is the best and the most exciting topic to talk about.
I hope to get better each time I prepare and finish an assignment. It has only been about a year that I have started to feel more secure about my writing. I am extremely critical about my writing and I still believe I have issues with using good grammar. This keeps me on my toes and makes me more vigilant and attentive about my papers. Maybe that is a good thing.
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
On account of every person has their own background, personalities, styles, and experience, the way we write may be extremely different. I, myself, do not really follow any formal writing method, but depending on the topic of each writing assignment to choose the suitable process. I usually try to find common points between what I am writing about and what I have experienced or have knowledge about. Moreover, doing a quick research about the topic also helps me to understand more about what I suppose to write. As an international student, English is not my mother tongue.
The way that you think is not always the same as the way that you speak or write. The way that people do things are different from others that are around them. I would classify myself as a planner as well as procrastinator. When it comes to doing things I always take my time and wait until the last minute to get it out of the way. Sometimes I think of myself as backwards simply since I always plan before time but then wait until the day before something is due to complete it.