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Personal Essay About My Writing History

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My writing history basically follows my educational history for the most part. Overall, I would not say that it is a strong suit. My relationship with writing tends to have some highs and lows. I have written research papers, at least one every year for the past eight years covering various topics. So it is safe to say I have a few of those under my belt. None of these have been stand out papers or anything impressive that I can say I really hit out of the ballpark though some are better than others. When it comes to writing I would say that my hardest part about it is not composing the ideas but making them cohesive into a single paper. I have written a good amount of papers and essays due to all of my English classes and the teachers who taught them and for that I am grateful for or else I would be completely lost now. For most of these papers, I am fine on finding all of the necessary information, venturing various ways to explore questions …show more content…

I attended an all girls private school whose main goal was empowering women. The expository essay class was very helpful because the teacher really tried to help each student understand how they could improve her writing in every assignment. I would say that I do love my English classes especially those that follow history and specific time periods. My favorite English class that I have taken was my British Literature class. In my American English class, our tests were entirely essays that forced us to use a combination of genres, poetry, short story, etc. from a set time period and answer (or attempt to answer) one of two given prompts. Usually my points were valid, my thesis concise, but I always struggled with the conclusion of sentences, often repeating myself at the end or giving a broad broad generalization that maybe some what relating back to the thesis of my

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