My Writing Progress Essay

Emily Dickson

Ms. Neil

LA-B3

9 January 2023

Time flies by This school year has flown by like no other. I just started this class, and now we are halfway through it. There have been tons of rollercoastering too; Mentally, physically, and intellectually. One thing I feel that has been a rollercoaster is my writing progress. Writing has never come easy to me, and I wasn’t sure how much it had improved until I thought about it. After I looked at a few writing pieces that I have done this semester, I noticed the things I’ve improved on and some things I still struggle with and need to work on. At the beginning of the semester, I felt pretty good about my writing pieces. I wrote them quickly and what I felt was efficient. Well, looking back now,

Revising is something that I have always hated doing in complete honesty. I would just skim over and fix whatever stood out the most or even sometimes put it into a generator on Google and fix anything it said. Over the last few months, I’ve learned that doesn’t get you better grades or make the essay any better. The feedback I got was still the same things, go in more depth, give examples, and fix sentence fragments. It was the lack of effort that got me these lower grades. In the most recent essay we wrote for our class, I put time and effort into it striving for that higher score. Once I got my first draft back, I took the comments from my classmates and instructor and used them to my advantage. This time the comments meant something else to me than they did in my first essay. I took them and changed every single thing they mentioned. I also went back and carefully re-read my whole essay in my head and out loud. It made a big difference. My grade went up and I was very proud of that

Something that will help me that I still struggle with is procrastination. It is so easy to just say “I’ll do it later” and then never actually do it later. I do this all the time. I feel like this was one thing that happened with essay example 2. I didn’t want to do it and it was so much easier to put it off until it was too late. I ended up having to just get it good enough to turn it in. On the other hand, example 1 is an essay that I started as soon as I knew about it. Surprisingly it was way more enjoyable to write and I was able to add everything I wanted. It was also helpful to write multiple rough drafts in my daily writing notebook. This was a tool that our instructor gave us to write in every day in hopes of it improving our writing. I will say sometimes it was a pain in the behind, but at the end of the day, it made some of these essays way better than I thought they’d