Reflective Essay: Improving My Writing Class

In my high school years, in my opinion, I wrote well, but then once I started college I learned my writing was inadequate. Going into my first semester, I expected English would be a piece of cake, I then soon realized how wrong I was. One problem I struggled with while writing an essay was finding an acceptable subject to write about. Once I found the right idea for my essay, everything became much clearer. As a college student, I have learned plenty of information in my first semester of college, including many ways to better my writing, reading, and thinking skills. This class has also helped my grammar, format, and structure to improve. I have also learned how to research properly in what I do not understand.

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While struggling to start writing an essay for my class, I was able to ask others for help. I was provided with plenty of help at the writing center for improving my writing skills, structure sentences, and creating a strong thesis for my paper. Seeing that I had ideas, notes, or a rough draft, they provided me with the help I needed to get my thoughts properly on paper to flow together, rather than many run-on sentences. Another way I found to be helpful is to do some research online. The internet is full of different ways to break down a paragraph so that it is at a proper format. The internet help with writing tips, and ideas of how essays are supposed to be well structured, and also how a strong thesis is supposed to be. While it’s much easier to find somebody else’s work and ideas it was important that I summarize the source in my own words and avoid plagiarism at all cost. I learned the two ways to avoid this by making sure to use quotation marks on all sentences and or what someone has said, and also cite from web pages I have used material or books from, containing the book name, the author, and page number. Another way is to use foot notes which go at the bottom of the page. Papers with borrowed material should contain a cited page on the first or last page of the