For most of my life I never thought writing was enjoyable. This is because of my many struggles in writing. I am pleased to say that I no longer feel that way today. I have learned strategies such as brainstorming, revising, editing, chatting, and outlining. These strategies help me to learn from my mistakes and better my essay writing. Surprisingly what has also helped me with my writing is collaborating with my peers. Through collaboration we are able to give one another feedback on how to correct our mistakes in our essays. Using these strategies, I have not only made my essay writing stronger, but my writing in other areas as well. Writing is a skill that everyone can improve on at any time in his or her life using helpful strategies and …show more content…
Before I was ever introduced to these strategies my writing skills was very weak. It was hard for me to even put my thoughts on paper. I was very unorganized and not sophisticated in writing an essay. I was always discouraged when I had to write an essay because I knew that I would struggle with it. These strategies have changed all of this. I have found many helpful and useful strategies in the book Steps to Writing Well. Using outlining has help me improve my organizational skills. It allows me to construct my ideas and put them in a concise way. Every time now whenever I receive an essay prompt I make sure to write a rough draft for the purpose of organizing my ideas. An additional strategy that has improved my writing is editing. Editing has helped me learn from my writing errors. One of the mistakes that editing has helped me overcome is rushing through my writing. When I rush I tend to make a lot of grammatical errors and by editing it helps me slow down and correct myself. Editing has also helped me with my spelling, sentence structure, and proper punctuation. Editing has made my writing more sophisticated. The last strategy that is very helpful to me is revising. Through revising my essays, I have learned to not repeat any errors I have committed in the past. Revising helps me to progress in future essay by learning how to improve on mistakes I have made in the