All throughout my high school career, I have always dreaded essays. My writing has never been grammatically strong, but I have always been able to get the word count well above the minimum. Ever since I began Comp I this year, the class has showed me the grim reality of writing in college. My instructor has no mercy when grading for grammar and sentence structure, and those have always been my struggles when writing. Fortunately, Mrs. Key’s strict grading and high expectations have helped me exponentially. There are different aspects of my writing process that have improved over these past nine weeks. The first area of my writing process that has improved is brainstorming. I realized that my usual system for brainstorming would not benefit me in this class on the first day. Before I was enrolled in this class, my brainstorming system was not very organized. I would rarely have any written brainstorming and would just make everything up as I wrote an essay. My current system for brainstorming is now assisted by annotated bibliographies and credible sources. I hated annotated bibliographies at first, but began to accept them as part of my writing …show more content…
Last year my English teacher gave my class the choice of our essay topics and I felt overwhelmed by the options. In Comp I, I have been given a topic for all of my assignments, but I have had a choice of the more specific parts. An essay that I have been assigned had to be about a place to visit and why tourist should go there. I chose the extravagant city of Memphis, Tennessee. I informed the readers about a plethora of tourist destinations including the Civil Rights Museum, the Rock n Soul Museum, and the overall atmosphere of Memphis. Now that I am in Comp I, it has become much easier to choose a topic because I have been taught how to research topics and how much information the topic