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Reflective Essay: Improving Writing Skills

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I know every writer has had trouble writing at some point and they all had to improve so I hope this is my time to improve my writing.
I can say without a doubt that I have made a grave mistake. I just enrolled in this class to try to get a head start on writing for college and to try to improve my writing skills which I don’t have much of in the first place. I can already tell that the next two quarters might or will be awful, but I have to take this class to be able to take Composition I and Composition II. I have no other want or need for writing except for college I have no further plans to try to involve writing in anything I do, the faster I can get it away from writing the better. At least whenever I have to write I get a quick start on it then let it wait for a couple more days until I finish it the night before the due date. When it comes to my strengths of my writing I can truly say I have none. I truly believe I have the writing skills of a third grader and that would be stretching it, but I have plenty of weaknesses. I have no idea how to even start a paper without thinking about it for an hour. I always want to start a sentence with a conjunction, and if spell checker was not a thing I would be doomed forever in the eternal darkness. Another problem I have is repeating words over and over again. There are many sites that can assist …show more content…

I also want to get to the point where writing a five or four page paper doesn’t seem like the end of the world, so when it comes time to wright a two or three page seems like child’s play. My role in this class is the basic student rules as sit here, write, be quiet, and try to survive the semester. I feel the best way a teacher can fulfill the role as a teacher is just to always help when needed and try their best to prepare their student with the work they give, like teach them how to write a proper essay but that’s just

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