Reflection About Writing Class

When it came to writing for me, it has always been one of my weakest attributes. Then, it came time to reading and having to write about it, and my mind would always draw a blank. I believe that came from my lack of knowledge when it came to reading. When I used to read as a kid I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t until I got older that I realized I didn’t understand what I was reading; I was just reading to read so that I can get through the book. It wasn’t until I started taking college classes that I got a true understanding of how reading and writing go hand and hand, and how the better you read, the better you write. Before taking this writing class, I had little to no confidence in myself when it came to writing, or how to structure a paragraph,

I remember the first day of class the teacher asking us to introduce ourselves where we were from, what our hobbies were, our major, etc. I remember expressing in mine that I disliked writing, how I’ve always struggled with it, and my teacher gave me words of encouragement and right there I knew that this was going to be a good writing semester and that I was going to learn a lot. The first week we dived right into it learned about APA formatting, thesis statements, and academic integrity. The biggest one that had me worried was The Personal Narrative Essay because I knew my writing skills were about to be tested. Everything I needed though to write a Personal Narrative was given to me; I followed the guidelines, and I received a one hundred for it. Each week I read and studied each assignment meticulously, and for that, I saw my writing starting to improve. I saw my paragraphs starting to sharpen up; I started using words that I never thought possible, I was even putting punctuation in spots that I never thought possible. Taking this class has given me so much it not only has given me back my self-confidence, but it has taught me how to write a paper and how to format one with a title page and reference list. Finally, one of the biggest things that I think truly helped me in this class I believe was my teacher and how active she was in our classes discussion topics. Each week we would have to answer two discussion topics and respond to a classmate for each of them, and our teacher would always ask us questions. We would never just submit and respond to a classmate and be done for the week our teacher would always ask us questions and make us think, which is something that I