ipl-logo

Reflection On My Writing

1335 Words6 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Essay about improving writing skills

On account of every person has their own background, personalities, styles, and experience, the way we write may be extremely different. I, myself, do not really follow any formal writing method, but depending on the topic of each writing assignment to choose the suitable process. I usually try to find common points between what I am writing about and what I have experienced or have knowledge about. Moreover, doing a quick research about the topic also helps me to understand more about what I suppose to write. As an international student, English is not my mother tongue. I started learning English when I was in sixth grade, the time I started middle-school in Vietnam. However, most of our English lessons were just only reading and grammar, but not much about speaking or how to write a paragraph in English. In the period of open economy, I realized that foreign language like English was essential because …show more content…

That was when I decided to go to the United States of America to continue my studying. For the English proficient requirement of Lutheran High School in Elk Grove, CA, I took the TOEFL iBT, which is abbreviated for the Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-based Test, a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers, and got 15 out of 30 for writing part.
When I was studying at Lutheran High School, I took several English as Second Langue (ESL) classes concurrently with other classes. Those ESL classes helped me to improve my English a lot, especially my writing skills, since teacher was so nice and kind. She spent a lot of time to instruct me how to write good essays and reports, and even helped me to revise and proofread every single essay and report that I had to write for my classes. Those experiences helped me to get a better score when I took the TOEFL the second time before I graduated high school in 2015, which I got 23 out of

Show More
Related
405 Words | 2 Pages

In “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Hyde is the personification of Dr. Jekyll’s evil desires. While Dr. Jekyll is technically both personas, I think that he is a good person with good intentions. Dr. Jekyll created Mr. Hyde to unleash the suppressed feelings he kept inside; he was now free from social contract, could overindulge in dark urges, and was free from moral consciousness. Dr. Jekyll successfully separated evil from his body, but his intentions of purifying his body failed.{{thesis statement needed as the last sentences. What are you feelings toward Dr. Jekyll and why? }} {{Transition needed}}Dr.

Read More
439 Words | 2 Pages

Challenging me to be the very best version of myself that I could possible be. She worked with me all year long, before school, after school, and even during the summer between 4th and 5th grade. She gave me the most important gift of all, her time, she made sure that I as learning and growing in her classroom. She spent countless hours working with me to make sure I was successful. She created the turning point in my academic career.

Read More
948 Words | 4 Pages

With the help of relatives, we learned English and from then on we felt like the world was at our feet. The feeling of being able to completely understanding what someone is saying and having the ability to respond properly became my new favorite thing. Once we learned English many doors opened up for my brother and I. We were moved from ESL classes to regular classes so that we could further our knowledge. The first two years of school in the U.S. for me were spent trying to learn English, while my classmates were working on learning to write properly. Those years set me back a little and to this day the effects are noticeable when I am in English

Read More
466 Words | 2 Pages

When I was in the high school, I used to write a lot of essays, short research papers and presentation in three different languages. However, I was excellent just in Russian essays, while my English level was not so good. I had much more grammatical and punctuation mistakes. Also, one of my biggest problem was word order in sentences. Moreover, in my school English teachers did not require using of a proper academic writing.

Read More
508 Words | 3 Pages

reflecting on my progress thus far in this course, I have not only become cognizant of my writing skills and habits, but improvements I need to make to become a better writer. Although writing has never been one of my strong suits, I have learned valuable writing skills and strategies that are applicable to both the professional and academic field. Transitioning from the way I have been taught to write as a high school student has been the most challenging and influential change I have witnessed in my writing. To elaborate, in high school, we were taught the basis for writing any essay regardless of the audience or topic was the rigid five-paragraph essay structure.

Read More
1115 Words | 5 Pages

Throughout my time in Writing 101, the learning outcome to which I directed my focus is Exploration and Argumentation: Students will use writing and other modes to analyze text, explore unfamiliar ideas, engage with thinking different from their own, develop sound arguments, and reflect. I consider this outcome to be the most significant in my learning experience because of how it has led me to become a more enlightened and open-minded writer, rather than one that dives directly into flaunting my own opinion. Although I still occasionally find myself oblivious to alternate viewpoints, working towards this learning outcome taught me how to familiarize myself with a topic before forming an opinion, be more accommodating to alternate opinions, and to be a more considerate writer overall. Out of the three writing assignments, my argument paper, Paying Tuition One Grant at a Time, was the most related to my learning outcome. The argument assignment was most significantly related to the

Read More
347 Words | 2 Pages

In the first two days of Honors English II, you taught me a lot about writing that impacted the way I wrote on the second day writing assignment, from the first day writing assignment. The first writing assignment was less of what is expected for an Honors English class due to lack of originality, organization, and a good MLA format. I then took what you taught me and applied it to my second writing assignment. First of all, the sentences were too bland and unoriginal in my first assignment. It contained bland sentences such as,"This summer I read many books.

Read More
619 Words | 3 Pages

Writing The Writing 121 course presented a lot of challenges that I had to overcome in order to become better as a writer. One thing I found very challenging, was adjusting rhetorical situations to a given condition. When writing the Inquiry paper, I had trouble finding what subject geared toward other college students to write about, while trying to keep concepts like Kairos, Ethos, and Pathos in mind. Another challenge I had to face was organizing the word choice in my papers.

Read More
1298 Words | 6 Pages

I practiced learning and using it from a very young age. As I got older, my parents decided to transfer me to an international school where I started to learn English as my second language. The new school environment transformed and gave me a passion to learn another language, and this was a strong foundation that helped me to make the decision of pursuing a degree in the United States 6 years

Read More
461 Words | 2 Pages

Throughout the term there has been many writing assignments —big or small— that helped reflect my writing process or the process itself. In the beginning of the course I felt like I was an “ok” writer, but lacked some skills such as: organization, sentence variety, and vocabulary. Also, I did not like to write and had a feeling of dislike when forced to write. I felt like I improved on everything I wanted and was seen throughout the semester. I know how to organize my ideas, the worksheets given in class to work on sentence variety really helped, and vocabulary was built on some level.

Read More
755 Words | 4 Pages

Over the this past semester in freshman composition I have learned how to write a college level paper. Going into this class, I was a little unsure and scared that I wasn’t going to be able to do the things that were required for me to do. As the semester passed I could definitely see a change in my writing. I learned how to use the appropriate punctuation, how to write and refute an argumentation paper, which I believe is my strongest piece of writing and how to research and gather information to write a strong research paper. I knew coming into this class that I was going to struggle with my punctuations, word choice, and the overall flow of the paper.

Read More
1523 Words | 7 Pages

ENG-122 Reflective Essay My writing process has changed tremendously over the course of this class. I feel more accomplished, confident and I feel sometimes that my ideas and thoughts just come in to my mind out of nowhere and I start writing about anything now. I pay attention to my punctuation and grammar more as I have polished them more now, not only when I write but then others write as well. I am constantly looking for errors and I highly think this is helping me a lot in my career.

Read More
427 Words | 2 Pages

Writing project 3 has shown me the importance of writing something that is of interest for you, an issue that you are passionate about. I think that I have started to get somewhat better at the structuring of my writing and using outlines before I jump into a draft. I am no longer as scared and hesitant to write, as I was the first writing project. I think a good goal that I accomplished from this project was using diverse sources in my writing. I was able to utilize a magazine post, newspaper article and research journals to form my argument and provide support.

Read More
370 Words | 2 Pages

At first, I was slightly apprehensive about critiquing a fellow classmate’s written paper. The first thoughts that popped into my mind were, what if I give wrong advice on any corrections? What if my classmate gets offended by my comments? On the other hand, I had to make myself realize that the critiquing assignment was not about what was “wrong” or “correct” in their written work. However, it needed to be seen more as helping to make my classmate’s paper better.

Read More
1620 Words | 7 Pages

First of all, my experience of learning English was a great process which took fifteen years as a Turkish native speaker. When I was seven years old, I started to learn English and I am able to learn languages. When I was five years old, I was watching cartoons in English and in my opinion it was so helpful for me to learning a new language. I have been learning English for fifteen years including my college life. I studied American Culture and Literature in Bilkent University.

Read More

More about Reflection On My Writing

Related Topics

Open Document