On the first day class begun, I had so much confidence in my writing/reading skills. Before entering the course, I had taken two years of AP English in my last years of high school. So I felt very prepared for what I had expected from the course. As I reached the end of the course, I now see the long path that I have traveled to get to where I’m currently at. I learned to be more careful in my writing. I realized how much of an impact writing can have on those who read it. I had one of those “Ah-Ha” moments when I discovered just how much I use comma splices in my daily life.
Writing this gives me the opportunity to reflect on everything I have done and learned this past semester. I hope that by doing this, it makes it clear just how significant this course has been to me. I didn’t take it seriously. I thought that it was just going to be an easy A. It took me one month to realize that this was not the case. Once I received the feedback on my first final draft, I was astonished by how much I could have done better on such a simple essay. Looking at that made me think just the opposite of the class. It wasn’t just turn in a draft for a letter grade course. It was a chance to make
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Sounds obvious. Think about, a body builder must make sure he knows how to lift the bar first before he’ll start seeing significant improvement. The same idea can be said about writing. While practice makes perfect, it’s useless if there is no proper foundation. Also, for me at least, organization is the first thing I take care of when putting together my ideas together. If there isn’t any organization in my paper, then the ideas tend to just fall apart as they are being written. I’ve realized that there is no limit to writing. Writing has no end to the amount of skills a writer can obtain through practice. There is always more room for